I See a Rainbow

The Rainbow Fish, Marcus Pfister's award-winning story about the joys of sharing, is the inspiration for this resource loaded with fun. Suggestions for language and language arts, math, science, and social studies activities are included...

You can sing a rainbow with a fun set of color-themed activities. Kids learn a song, match colors to objects, and jump up and down as they practice their color recognition.

Students read a story. In this spring lesson, students discuss the season of spring, brainstorm vocabulary words, and read the book Planting a Rainbow. Students plant their own rainbow, write sentences using their focus words, and draw a...

Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Rainbow Joe and Me. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions,...

Students explore art by identifying colors in the rainbow. In this color analysis activity, students read several children's books based upon colors and animals before singing a rainbow song in class. Students create a rainbow wheel from...

Learners complete a variety of activities related to the /sh/ digraph. As a class they generate a list of words containing /sh/, then listen to word pairs, identifying the word in the pair containing the /sh/ sound. Students listen to...

Youngsters explore colors in the world around them with a focus on high-frequency sight words. They will read books about color and discuss color in their lives. The class will participate in interactive writing as they compose a large...

Students discover the benefits to community sharing. In this community sharing lesson, students read The Rainbow Fish and discuss how to be a good citizen. Students create their own rainbow fish with shiny scales and write a sentence...

Students will practice writing each upper and lower case letter of the alphabet. In this letter wriitng practice lesson, students observe the teacher write each letter on a dry erase board, then practice until each letter has been covered. 

Students use the Ella Jenkins' song "Who Fed the Chickens?" to study the pronouns I, you, we, she, he, and they. After singing the song a few times, students utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice with pronouns, and...