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Using Contractions

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the use of contractions. In this contraction lesson, 2nd graders examine what contractions are and how to form them properly. They use a song to learn which words to change when forming contractions before writing 6...
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Poetry Unit Test

For Students 5th - 12th
For this poetry worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions on different aspects of poetry. Students complete 40 questions total.
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Patterns in Nature

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students learn about artist Larry Schulte and view examples of his work. They create addition sentence for the first seven numbers of the fibonacci sequence and use unifix cubes to build that sentences. Students color and create three...
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The Annoying Orange

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this orange worksheet, students watch a video of a talking orange called The Annoying Orange, answer multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, name kitchen items, and more. Students complete 7 activities total.
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Literacy Task - Apostrophes

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this apostrophes worksheet, students match contractions wot 2 words they represent, write letters that are missing, and more. Students complete 3 tasks.
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Drawing Emotions

For Teachers K - 12th
Students examine how artists have expressed emotion thru use of line, color and shapes. They communicate a variety of emotions using line, shape and values to create form.
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan "What's That Sound?"

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars practice pronouncing the correct consonant sound.
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Textile Processing: Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students will use a word bank of textile words to correctly name each picture. The pictures are color photos of various textile processing tools.
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Participles: Another Verbal to Know and Love

For Students 6th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about past and present participles. They then use what they learned to answer the 13 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Missing vowels

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this missing vowels instructional activity, students fill in the blank of missing vowels to words related to computers. Students fill in the vowels to 20 words.
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Families and neighborhoods

For Teachers K
Students create their house to add to a class "neighborhood". For this lesson on family and community, students read the book Family by Todd Parr and discuss how all families and houses are different. Then, students create their own...
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California Strut

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars perform the line dance California Strut. In this dance lesson, students listen to the music "Hot, Hot, Hot" and perform a line dance.
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Crossword: Book - "Snowflake Bentley"

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this crossword worksheet, students use clues about the book Snowflake Bentley to complete a crossword puzzle. An answer key is provided.
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Writing with Beans

For Teachers Pre-K
Students become familiar with the letters in a word by pasting beans on it.  In this Bean writing lesson, students make words using navy beans. Students color or paint the beans.
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Multi-Sensory Grammar - Adjectives

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders demonstrate knowledge of adjectives, and use this knowledge to color-code parts of speech of a sentence.
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STAINED GLASS IMPRESSIONISTIC LANDSCAPE GREETING CARD

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students research the history of stained glass and Mother's Day. They practice mixing colors related to the artistic style of impressionism.Students also research the concept of landscape and how the impressionist artists used them.
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Lyric Poetry Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students synthesize the "textbook" definition of lyric poetry and discuss various forms (love lyric, complaint lyric, loss lyric, satiric lyric). They discover the relationship of poetry to musical selections.
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Sound; Year 1

For Teachers K - 6th
Students, on a listening walk around the school and its grounds, make notes/comments on the range and variety of sounds in each environment. They listen to recorded sounds and attempt to recognize them.
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Click, Clack, Moo: Electric Blanket Science

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin and discuss the similarities and differences between electric blankets and regular blankets. They brainstorm a list of reasons why the farm animals wanted electric blankets.
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Mi Casa es Tu Casa

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students make animated houses using slab-built clay ceramic techniques. They treat the surface of the house with a technique known as majolica.
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Words in the News: New Orleans Job Losses

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss what they know about Hurricane Katrina and the city of New Orleans. In groups, they use they match the new vocabulary words to their definitions. They read an article about Hurricane Katrina and answer questions.
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Figurative Language 2

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students read nursery rhymes and advertisements to identify examples of figurative language. As a class, students discuss the use of figurative language and its effectiveness in advertising, children's books, rhymes, poetry, etc. ...
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Adverbs

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this grammar learning exercise, students read about what an adverb is and answer 2 multiple choice, 2 fill-in the blanks questions and underline the adverb in 8 sentences.
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"Oa" Review

For Students K - 2nd
In this "oa" word search worksheet, students locate and circle the 5 "oa" words listed in the word bank within the word puzzle. Students also fill in the blanks in 4 words with the letters "oa".