This is better for a "small group" lesson. Students will demonstrate understanding of proper nouns and know that days of the week and months of the year are always capitalized.

Thorough explanation of days of the week, their plural forms, and their use with definite articles. Ample examples demonstrate this concept. A short test at the end of the lesson tests the student's mastery of this grammar principle.

Read about the history of this Irish holiday and who Saint Patrick was to the Irish people.

A book about the days of the week. Includes audio narration in 11 additional languages with text in English.

This lesson focuses on the influence of mythology on the present day including the days of the week named for the Norse gods and the months of the year on the Roman gods.

Join Skip the kangaroo and help him decide the days of the week.

Learn the mysteries of time and date with Dalia in Egypt.

Play this game to match the written Italian word for a day or a month to the same word in English.

Find out about Amelia Rose Earhart, the namesake of the 1930's pilot, and her successful flight around the planet.

The time resource investigates weeks. Topics discussed are days in a week, weeks in a year, weekdays, and weekends. Practice exercises with solutions are also provided.

In this activity, students collect weather data over several days or weeks, graph temperature data, and compare the temperature data collected with averaged climate data where they live.

Simple explanation of what makes up a day, a week, a month, and a year.

Seven Days of the Week is fun slider puzzle for children to practice putting days in order. The goal is to put the days in order and to help the monkeys get the banana. Slide pieces up and down and each time a day is placed in the...

This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.

If you need to develop your own practice spelling list, visit the "Word--a--Day" archives (back to 1996) to find interesting vocabulary/spelling words based on weekly themes such as "Words about Marriage," "Words about Laughing," and...

Article reports on the events that occured fifty years ago in Selma, Alabama as part of the civil rights movement, and how the events of that day are being remembered now. Includes video.

Modern-day people have always wondered what Jesus looked like. Find out how artists have depicted him over the centuries by viewing this slideshow.

Learn the days of the week in French then try to match the English words with the French words.

Sixth graders will take a test and be surprised at how similar their teacher is to them.

Sixth graders read a poem to see the importance of class rules and behaviors.

Sixth graders understand what the bucket of kindness is and how they can use it to earn rewards as a class.

Sixth graders define rate and give examples of how they can use rates.

This activity is designed to give students practice using a geologic map to assess the likelihood and location of a particular natural hazard- earthquakes- in California.

This activity is designed to give learners practice using a geologic map to understand how water shapes the land- and is stored within the land- in part of the Grand Canyon.