First graders complete activities with the story The Great Big Enormous Turnip by Alexel Tolstoy. In this language arts lesson plan, student view the story as a Cloze passage and work with a partner to fill in the blanks. They check...

Students discuss the family unit and compare it to an ant colony.  In this family instructional activity, students draw their family and extended family and talk about their jobs and family roles. They compare this to an ant colony...