This outstanding lesson plan will encourage your students to combine their knowledge of rhythm, pitch, tone and color with their imaginations to create original compositions about animals. They create a music carnival to "Peter and the...

How very clever. No need to monkey around with this resource. Rob Cleveland's version of the West African tale, "The Clever Monkey Rides Again," is used as the basis for multiple of cross-curricular activities including exercises...

Put together mini books for every letter of the alphabet! Provided here are printables for all 26 letters that each contain eight pages for kids to color in and write on. Directions are provided at the top of the first page of...

Elementary school students often falter when asked to distinguish between a common and proper noun. Even older students may not be sure. This presentation provides a comprehensive review of nouns. Great fun!

Figurative language is a welcome addition to creative writing. Clearly describe similes with this worksheet. For each of 10 example sentences, learners have to identify what is being compared. An answer key is provided with this great...

Poetry is a wonderful way to explore language, express topical understanding, and incite creative thinking. After a trip to the local natural history museum (or zoo), learners write an acrostic or a cinquain poem describing one of their...

Student create a fish and listen to music while imagining their fish are swimming.  In this music lesson, learners identify instruments played and move their fish to the movement.  Students work with kangaroos and elephants...

Students read 10 sentences and fill in each blank in each sentence with an appropriate vocabulary word from the word pool. This language arts learning exercise provides good practice for students to use words in their proper context.

Second graders, given 5 elephant words, divide the words into syllables by underlining the talking vowels, swooping, and pulling down consonants to find cutting pattern, and to explain that a single vowel represents the short vowel sound.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read the book Alexander, The Elephant Who Couldn't Eat Peanuts and match the animal to the food they could not eat in the story. There are four matching exercises to complete.

Young scholars are introduced to Indian Art in the form of carvings and metal sculptures of the god Ganesha. They comprehend the meaning behind the Hindu beliefs of Lord Ganesha. Students draw Ganesha's likeness to the best of their...

In this Language Arts worksheet, students read a poem called "Taller, Shorter, or Longer?" The poem includes movements and comparisons of different animals.

In this language arts worksheet, students learn the correct use of the "be used to" phrases by first studying an information chart. Students then complete sentences using "be used to" in the correct form. Example: Moving men (are used...

Students discover the importance of using descriptive words in good writing. They brainstorm words to describe elephants and dogs then watch a video that describes different items. Each student writes a paragraph using descriptive words...

In this Animals Word Search worksheet, students find 16 animals in a word search. Examples include dog, bear, tiger, pig, and elephant.

In this endangered animal coloring activity, students color a picture of an African elephant, an endangered animal. Students draw and illustrate its natural habitat around it.

For this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students learn to recognize beginning letters of words as they look at the pictures of the elephant, lion, octopus and sun on the page and choose from the letters in a box associating...

In this printing practice worksheet, 1st graders trace the dotted lines to print the names of 10 animals such as horse, monkey, cow, cat, and elephant.

For this cursive writing worksheet, students write the names of 7 animals by tracing the dotted lines to form the lower case cursive letters. They write words such as elephant, fish, bird and ape.

Students explore how to annotate and align clip art as well as create Powerpoint presentations. In this presentation graphics lesson, students expand their IT skills set by completing 4 projects employing clip art and presentation software.

Pupils read the book Big Block of Chocolate and complete language arts activities associated with it. In this language arts lesson plan, learners read the book as a read aloud or shared reading, and can compete writing, reading,...

In this printing activity, students form four rows of uppercase and lowercase letter E's. Students also write two rows of the word Elephant and the following sentence: Edgar eats eggs.

In this language arts worksheet, students learn when to use each article "a" or "an" by first reading the rules, then cutting out small boxes with the articles. Students paste the correct article in front of 12 words, then write 12 of...

For this language arts worksheet, students practice classifying the nouns into the right category. They also use the pictures as clues to meaning.