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Halloween Songs

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students perform a dance (La Raspa) from a different culture while maintaining a steady beat, sing "Halloween Night" with accurate pitch and good breath support, and imitate a body percussion part for the song "Monster Mash" in this...
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Singing In Canon

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders analyze and discuss the four seasons and how each can be represented in song form. This lesson is intended for the third grade Music classroom but could be adapted for any elementary grade. State and National Standards...
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Organizational Patterns: Comparison and Contrast Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write an essay comparing and contrasting their school experiences. Through guided practice, they create an outline of their elementary school experience and middle school experience. Using their outlines, students synthesize...
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Cause and Effect

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this elementary writing worksheet, young scholars investigate cause and effect. Students complete three boxes "If....", and three ovals "then..." When complete, the worksheet will show three cause-and-effect sentences about a story.
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Printing Practice- Upper Case E

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
For this printing practice worksheet, learners follow the dotted lines to form 10 upper case E's in the first row. They fill 3 more rows with E's on elementary lines. They see pictures of items that begin with the letter e at the bottom...
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Lower case e Printing Practice

For Teachers K - 1st
In this printing practice worksheet, students follow the dotted lines to print 10 lower case e's. They fill 2 more elementary lines with e's on a page with pictures of items that include the letter e.
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Order In The Court - Alphabetical Order - ail Words

For Teachers 3rd
In this alphabetical order worksheet, 3rd graders place 12 -ail word family words in ABC order. They write the words on the elementary lines.
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Alphabetical Order - ub Word Family

For Teachers 3rd
In this alphabetical order worksheet, 3rd graders place 12 words from the -ub word family in ABC order. They write the words on elementary lines at the top of the page.
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Poetry Creations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students produce iMovies to share their thoughts of friendship along with poetry creations in this technology-based lesson for the upper-elementary classroom. The lesson includes a link to a "create a poem" site and requires computers...
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Freddie the Fungus:A Play about Decomposers (Elementary, Computer)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
First the class learns how to write a Haiku poem. Then, they use kidpix to illustrate their poem. 
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Charlie, the Caterpillar - An Integration of Lit. and Music (Elementary, Literature)

For Teachers K - 1st
Students sing, dance and play instruments that are integrated with the book, "Charlie the Caterpillar."
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Writing Freely in the Elementary Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Once a week, students are given free time to write on a topic of their choice. When they have finished writing, they have a small conference with their teacher about their writing for that day.
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Reading Stories in Art

For Teachers K - 12th
Students study how artists tell stories using visual images by identifying and comparing elements of narrative (setting, characters, and plot) in a painting and a Greek vase.
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Finding the Animals: A Visual Exploration of Art

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a thirty-second look, followed by a class discussion about Jan Brueghel's painting The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark. They use description words and sentences to write about their favorite animal in the...
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Button Sort - Cross Reference #607, Literature (Elementary, Mathematics)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write free flowing thoughts and feelings in their journals. They practice observation skills. They write using adjectives to describe an object. They choose a special button from among many unusual buttons.
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Reading Strategies for Elementary Students

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students practice using strategies to help them read. They participate in activities that help them sound out words and determining the main idea. They also examine good and bad reading habits.
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Ideas for Elementary Language Arts and Social Studies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read a newspaper, then draw a picture.
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The Evolution of Arkansas Elementary Education

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders interview older citizens to discover earlier educational history. They write essays based on their interviews.
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Vocabulary Elementary School

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In these printing and spelling practice worksheets, learn to spell and print the following words: apple, apricot, banana, grapes, lemons, peach, pear, pineapple, strawberry, and plum.
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Self-portraits: Integrating Arts And the Language Arts

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students look into a mirror and draw their own self-portraits. Then they write a descriptive essay, describing the portrait and the features of their face.
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Arts and the Olympics/Dance and Athletics

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students study and perform dances with a dance specialist, while others photograph their movements. The resulting slides were used to help both these students and others explain dance and write creatively.
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Writing About Photographs: Responding to the Art of Dorothea Lange

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students view and discuss photographs by Dorothea Lange. They describe what they see, pose questions about the images, reflect on their personal responses, and create diaries written in the voices of individuals depicted in the images.
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Insight Arts

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students view a mural and identify, describe, and discuss what they see. They are introduced to and demonstrate the functions of key structural elements of poetry by writing a poem about themselves that highlights their interests and...
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Seaweed Art

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students read a book about seaweed. They create various types of seaweed by painting a variety of lines. Students utilize a variety of line techniques such as wavy lines, zigzag, and curly.

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