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Money Math
Is there a better, and more motivating, math manipulative than money? Kids love to use it, and it's a great teaching tool. Here, there are three good activities using coins. Learners create patterns, sort change, and have a...
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Healthy Snacks
Teach little learners the difference between a healthy snack and an unhealthy one. After a class discussion about what constitutes a healthy vs. an unhealthy snack, pupils cut out pictures from magazines and sort them into categories...
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Cinnamon Ornaments
Learners create keepsake cinnamon ornaments to hang on the family Christmas tree or in a window. They mix ingredients to form dough, create an ornament and write a message to accompany the ornament.
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Probability
Here is a very clever way of teaching young mathematicians the concept of probability. A spinner is made that has two outcomes, yes and no. A chart is made that has two columns that are labeled Correct and Incorrect. The teacher asks a...
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Healthy Habits
Through discussion and role-play, youngsters learn how to take care of their health. Stuffed toys become "patients" which are cared for by children and taught healthy habits. Having some medical props such as stethoscopes, tongue...
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Sharing African Culture
Students investigate African American culture by reading aloud an African folk tale and illustrating the tale. They use their illustrations to create a book or a bulletin board that retells the folk tale.
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Yummy Gummy Subtraction
Students practice subtraction facts using gummy bears. In this subtraction lesson, students use the gummy bears as a manipulative to solve simple subtraction facts.
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Balls & Hoops : Fun with Balls and Tubes
Students race to keep these balls rolling. In this early childhood physical education lesson, students experiment with cause and effect as they work with different heights of cardboard tubes.
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Boxes & Blocks: Tunnel Vision
Students paint, create, and crawl through their own tunnel. For this early childhood visual arts lesson, students will develop gross motor skills and engage in activities that promote physical exercise as they create and explore tunnels...
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Boxes & Blocks: Puffer Bellies and Box Cars
Young scholars turn cardboard boxes into outdoor dramatic play. For this early childhood visual arts lesson, students explore cooperative and dramatic play outdoors by challenging children to create a train from cardboard boxes.
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Paper Spiders
The positional words up and down are the focus of a language and visual arts lesson. Learners get a paper plate and eight strips of construction paper. They create a spider out of their paper plate, and cut out a circle out of a piece of...
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Occupations
Very young learners have careers in mind for their futures! This resource presents an activity which will allow kids to explore their thoughts and dreams on this topic. The teacher plays the role of a newspaper reporter who interviews...
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Which is Biggest?
Help kindergartners determine which picture is biggest, tallest, longest, and thinnest! After studying four sets of pictures, kids choose the picture that is indicated in the instructions. Color the page once they're done for extra fun!
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Trace the Numbers
Could your kindergartners use a little practice writing numbers 0 to 9? This resource provides both large and small numbers for kids to trace, as well as space for them to write the numbers by themselves. Use this page over and over for...
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Which One's Different?
One of these things is not like the others! Preschoolers identify which sock and glove is different from the rest, and draw a ring around the outlier. Then, they draw a sock and glove that are different from given pictures. Color the...
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Water Experiment
Here is a great lesson designed for very young scientists. In it, they act out the famous Aesops fable, "The Crow and the Pitcher." In doing this, they get to experience water displacement first-hand. Some terrific extension activities...
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Thumbprints
Thumbprints are fascinating! Here is a clever lesson that allows kids to discover that everyone has a unique thumbprint - no two are alike! They use magnifying glasses to closely observe their own, and someone else's thumbprints. Then,...
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Tissue Paper Flowers
Here is a sweet and simple lesson that introduces young learners to the three primary colors; red, yellow, and blue. Through a discovery process, youngsters learn how to successfully identify these colors, and the many shades of these...
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A Poetic Place
Here is a nice way to introduce your young learners to poetry and writing their own poems. Children create their own poems about their favorite quiet-time places. After listening to some poems read aloud by the teacher, each child gets...
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Shoe Box Turtles
Turtles are the stars of the show in a creative lesson plan designed for very young learners. In it, learners are shown pictures of real turtles. They discuss the shell and the head, then they compare them to other animals. Pupils are...
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Teach Me
Here is a lesson that expands on a classic teaching idea. Learners are encouraged to think of a skill they possess, or something cool they can do that can be taught to their classmates. Once the skills are identified, each student...
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Complete the Picture: Snakes!
Those sneaky snakes are climbing up the trees - but they need someone to trace them! Preschoolers practice tracing curvy lines, and can color the snakes and trees when they're finished. A great way to practice tracing lines, and prepare...
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Taking A Ride
Designed for Pre-K to kindergartners, this resource has you take your class on an imaginary bus or subway ride. There are some inventive ideas of ways you can make this imaginary trip come to life in the classroom, as well as a great way...
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Learning 5 - Write the Number
Fish for fives with a cute counting worksheet! Kindergartners count schools of fish, which all add up to five, and write the correct number in provided spaces. They then copy a domino pattern at the bottom of the page. A great way to...