Henry Builds A Cabin

Put together an English language arts unit on the six traits of writing with this helpful collection of resources. From fun songs to differentiated writing exercises reinforcing each of the traits, great ideas are provided for...

Build vocabulary and get in the Halloween sprit with a collection of festive activities! Here, scholars take part in a holiday celebration, unearth the unknown in mystery feel-boxes, and create monster masks out of paper plates. 

In this reading worksheet, young scholars perform a short reader's theater script based on the book Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night. Students take a part in this 4 character play and read or perform it.

First grade is a great time to build strong reading skills. Here are three short rhyming poems or common nursery rhymes that are intended to help boost reading fluency. Because most children know these rhymes, they will have an easier...

Students build a Lego design and then work with a partner to reproduce that design. They guide the building of the reproduction by description only and then check their work.

First graders practice writing colorful sentences. For this writing mechanics lesson, 1st graders use the SmartBoard to write sentences and draw illustrations next to their sentences. Students develop a rubric to help them understand how...

Sentence construction is both a science and an art. This bare bones lesson ties an analysis of earth's geology to sentence formation. Although referenced as a major part of the activity, there are no links to the technology or resources...

Adjectives build better sentences! First, second, third, and fourth graders design adjective booklets that feature words to describe everything between the sea and the sky.

Students create log cabins out of strips of construction paper in this Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed on the study of how people live today versus in the distant past. A resource link is included for...

First graders echo a sentence targeting a vowel selected by the teacher and shown on a sentence strip. In this sentence building lesson, 1st graders put the cut up sentence strip back into correct order, repeating the sentence. Students...