Our Friends and Us

Enhance language proficiency with a Special Friends themed English language development unit. Each lesson follows a listen, speak, move, and/or look routine that is guaranteed to get your scholars discussing topics such as animal...

Walk your class through each step in writing an informal letter. This fabulous PowerPoint provides a great example for all parts of an informal, or personal, letter. After reviewing this presentation, your class will be ready to write...

As you introduce your new first graders to their classroom, consider this activity as a way to discuss rules and expectations. Although the introduction seems to focus more on qualities of a good friend, the lesson itself is only part of...

What makes a good friend? Choose four character traits for this activity and post them at the four corners of your classroom. Explain that learners will be completing a survey of sorts, choosing which of the traits they think is most...

Discuss traits of a good friend with your first graders, compiling four to post in different parts of the room. As a continuation from another lesson, this activity has scholars invite another class to take a "survey." They stand next to...

In this sharing your adventure worksheet, students read a letter about a first rafting experience, identify the sights, sounds, and feelings described, and then write a friendly letter describing a personal outdoor adventure. Students...

Write a friendly letter to Hare giving him advice on how to win his next race so he doesn't make the same mistake as he did in Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare.

Students participate in a class book club. After reading a selected book, they discuss what they like and dislike about the book and if they would recommend it to a friend with their partner. As a class they listen to the book "Click,...

Students practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assess the differences between the lowercase letters b and d. They listen to and identify the letters b and d in the book, "Bud the Sub," and then play a game to master this skill.

We are very dependent upon other life forms around us to survive. Here, scholars explore relationships in the ecosystem with the help of Auntie Litter and the pollution patrol. They imagine a world without grass, making connections to...