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Pretend Picnic
Young learners love to pretend when in school. This lesson allows them to do just that! In it, everyone constructs a poster of a pretend picnic. After a class discussion on what should be brought to a picnic, kids can draw or cut out...
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My Own Store
Pupils cut and paste items to go with price tags, then swap with another student and purchase each item to show an understanding of pennies and nickels by recording correct combinations of coins.
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My Crayons Talk Activity Card
In this language arts worksheet, students cut out 6 pictures and paste them on a chart of crayon colors to respond to a book called My Crayons Talk. Students paste the pictures of objects that the author Patricia Hubbard associates with...
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The Jacket I Wear in the Snow Activity Card
In this reading activity, students respond to the book The Jacket I Wear in the Snow by completing an activity at home with a parent. Students cut out the 10 pictures which depict scenes from the book and paste them next to the sentences...
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It's Thanksgiving Activity Card
In this reading instructional activity, students respond to the collection of Thanksgiving poetry called It's Thanksgiving. Students complete an activity at home with a parent. Students cut out 4 pictures and match them to the poem...
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Clap Your Hands Activity Card
In this reading activity, students respond to the book Clap Your Hands by completing this activity at home with a parent. Students cut out 6 pictures, then read the clues from the story. Students paste each picture on the chart where it...
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Froggy Goes to School Activity Card
In this reading instructional activity, students respond to the book Froggy Goes to School by completing an activity at home with a parent. Students cut out 6 name cards and paste them next to the desk for each character in the story.
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears Activity Card
In this reading worksheet, students respond to the book Goldilocks and the Three Bears by completing an activity at home with a parent. Students cut out the pictures at the bottom of the page and paste the furniture in the correct space...
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Leo the Late Bloomer Activity Card
In this reading worksheet, students respond to the book Leo the Late Bloomer by completing an activity at home. Students cut out 6 speech balloons and paste them by the character who said those words.
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Photos from the Past
Young scholars observe and interpret historic photographs of water in New Mexico. They record observations, draw inferences, and compare water in New Mexico's past with water today. They create a class book or exhibition of the...
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Froggy Gets Dressed Activity Card
In this reading instructional activity, students respond to the book Froggy Gets Dressed by completing an activity at home with parents. Students cut out 3 articles of clothing depicted in the book and paste them in the chart by the...
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Beginning of the Year Activity Using The Rainbow Fish
Students are read "The Rainbow Fish Big Book". They discuss how each one of them are unique in some way. They decorate their own fish to show their characteristics and shares it with the class so they are able to learn about each other.
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The Frienship Fish -- Rainbow Fish Book Activity
Students are read "The Rainbow Fish". They discuss how important friendship is and list qualities they want in a good friend. They create a giant fish with each child's quality for the class to view.
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Easter Pop-Up Card
In this activity worksheet, students color, cut, fold and paste a picture of the Easter bunny to make a card. Teachers are given a brief history of the holiday and traditions associated with it.
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What's a Map
In this mapping activity worksheet, students color the pictures and then cut them out. Students paste the pictures into the correct map section of city, water, land, and roads.
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Easter Egg Patterns
In this Easter egg patterns activity instructional activity, students examine 7 rows of egg patterns, cut out the eggs on the bottom of the sheet, and paste the eggs in the appropriate boxes to complete the 7 patterns.
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Make a Mini Calendar
In this calendar worksheet, learners create a calendar for the year. The worksheet includes names of each months to cut out and glue on. Decorations to color and paste onto the calendar are included. Students will write the numbers into...
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Put Together the Broken Hearts
In this Valentine worksheet, students cut apart 12 half hearts and match them to see the decorated message. Students paste the hearts together on a piece of construction paper.
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Sort the Foods
In these food groups worksheets, students read the various fruit, vegetable, meat, and dairy words. Students categorize the words into groups by cutting them out and pasting them into the table.
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Do They Agree?
Fifth graders review and practice subject-verb agreement by cutting and pasting, and by writing a simple paragraph in which the subjects and verbs agree. They utilize worksheets imbedded in this plan to practice subject-verb agreement.
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Drew the Dragon's Wordslide
In this initial consonant blends worksheet, students create a word-slide from a dragon template, where they write initial consonant blends in a box on a dragon, then cut on the lines to create a space to slide list of word endings. As...
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Terrific Teamwork!
After reading Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann, have your first graders differentiate between Gloria's actions and Officer Buckle's actions. Using a Venn diagram organizer, kids cut out various events from the story and...
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Social Security: 3 Day Lesson
What does social security reveal about the political and social culture of the 1930s? After beginning with a brief introductory video on the impact of the Great Depression and how various Americans, such as Huey Long and Francis...
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The Beatles and The Rolling Stones
Learners exchange information orally about The Beatles and The Rolling Stones during the 1960s until 1970. They work in pairs to complete a gap-fill activity from memory. Students play hangman at the beginning of the instructional activity.