Curated OER
Learning the Days of the Week
Students sing a song during group time each day to learn the names of the days of the week. They learn the song lyrics and sing them often.
Curated OER
Time
In this time measurement activity, students write down the number of days in a week and list them. Students also identify the number of months in a year and write the first four months down.
Kelly's Kindergarten
May Daily Activities
Five weeks of daily activities for the month of May! With a new activity for each day of the month, your youngsters will utilize a variety of skills and practice everything from sight words and spelling to counting by twos or coloring...
Curated OER
Calendar
In this calendar learning exercise, students practice learning about the calendar in 20 different questions. First, they determine how many days are in a week and a month. Then, students determine how many Fridays there are in each month...
Curated OER
Whale: Days and Months
In this whales calendar worksheet, students read the names of the days of the week and the months of the year, each inside a whale shape. There are no directions.
Curated OER
Santa Days and Months
In this Santa Claus themed days of the week and months of the year worksheet, learners color and cut out the days and months to use in a variety of activities.
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Fall Days and Months
In this fall-themed days of the week and months of the year activity, students color and cut out the days and months to use in a variety of activities.
Illustrative Mathematics
Color Week
Practice counting by ones up to 20 with your kindergartners using this colorful class experiment. There are two versions for the lesson. Version 1: The Friday beforehand, send home a notice for the week assigning a different color for...
Curriculum Corner
Wonderful Words for Writing!
Twenty slides make up a set of festive, May-themed writing prompts designed to grab scholars' attention and warm-up their writing skills. Prompts include story starters, holidays, research questions, the five senses, and more!
Center for Civic Education
To Amend or Not to Amend, That's Been the Question...Many Times
Looking for some ideas for how to celebrate September 17, Constitution Day? Check out a packet that focuses on the factors that are considered in the amendment process. Class members examine the amendment process and the types of...
Scholastic
Extension Activity Building a Healthy Classroom Community
Workout buddies aren't just for adults! Learners discuss the benefits of 60 minutes of physical activity each day and generate ideas for how they can accomplish this by working toward a goal with friends.
Columbus City Schools
The Magic of Energy: A Disappearing Act?
Using the 5E method for teaching about kinetic energy, potential energy, and conservation of energy, this two-week unit with many videos and possible extensions is sure to keep pupils engaged as they are learning.
Get Fluent
Get Fluent in French: Going on Holiday
Take a vacation into French with lots of vocabulary and plenty of activities. This collection of worksheets includes instruction as well as practice and invites French language learners to hone their translation skills.
Curated OER
Drinks and Snacks in French
Young scholars in a French II class identify food items that can be ordered in a cafe or restaurant. Students spend time reviewing new vocabulary terms then create a cafeteria menu for their school.
Core Knowledge Foundation
A Time for All Seasons - Fall
The weather is cooling down and the leaves are starting to change color; fall is right around the corner. Celebrate this special time of year with this earth and life science lesson series that teaches children about the...
Earth Watch Institute
Entering Local Groundhog Data in an Excel Spreadsheet
Here is a cross-curricular ecology and technology lesson; your learners create spreadsheets depicting the location and number of groundhog dens in a local park. They research groundhogs and analyze data about where the groundhog...
Curated OER
The Learning Network: Alligators Everywhere Fill-In
Meant to be used with the article, "In Florida, the Natives Are Restless" (included here), this is a great source of high-interest, nonfiction reading. A fill in the blank vocabulary activity and an activity focusing on reading...
It's About Time
Succession in Communities
What occurs following a natural disaster? High schoolers research this question and others as they investigate natural succession after a disaster. First, as they differentiate between primary and secondary succession, they explain...
Curated OER
Favorite Days of the Week
In this bar graph worksheet, students use the blank graph to survey classmates and record their favorite day of the week. Students think of one question about the graph and write it on the line.
Curated OER
Succession in a Jar
In this succession worksheet, students build an ecosystem using a jar, water, bird seed, soil and a water plant. They predict what their ecosystem will look like in 3 weeks and draw a diagram. Students record their data over the course...
Curated OER
Days of the Week Activity
In this days of the week worksheet, students fill in blanks to complete a set of statements about the days of the week. An answer key is provided.
Classroom Jr.
Leprechaun Story Starter
The idea that there are little, bearded men protecting pots of gold fills every child's imagination with endless possibilities. This fun writing prompt taps into the creativity of young learners as they write about the day they caught a...
PBS
President Theodore Roosevelt: Foreign Policy Statesman or Bully?
Can a negative perception of a president's foreign policy harm his or her historical legacy? A project that winds the clock back to the date of Theodore Roosevelt's death puts students at the editorial desk of a fictional newspaper....
Core Knowledge Foundation
Unit 2: Early American Civilizations
Fifth graders explore early American civilizations in a four-week ELA unit. Every lesson offers an opportunity to read and discuss a selected passage followed by word work that covers vocabulary, grammar, and morphology. Learners write...