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The Tattle Tail Tale
Students read the story by Tandy Braid to explain the concepts of tattling and reporting, then discussing the difference between them. They play a game to determine if something is a tattle or report.
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Sports and Fitness Festival
Young scholars explore new sports and activities which lead them to a healthy lifestyle.
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Trivia Time
Learners participate in a trivia game and follow directions during a down time.
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Card Suit Aerobics
First graders perform a variety of locomotor skills to enhance aerobic fitness and explain different movements that can be used to keep fit and active.
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Intro. to Controlling a Ball With Your Chest
Pupils stop and guide a ball with their chest. Note: This is a good lesson to use as an introduction to a soccer unit.
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A Multicultural Study: Chinese New Year
Learners study the customs and beliefs of the Chinese people as they experience Chinese New Year; students become aware that they live on one planet but their festivals and holidays vary.
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Spiders and Flies
Students increase their ability to chase, flee, and dodge others in this activity. They move safely in a bound area.
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Four-Corner Cartoon Traveling
Pupils practice moving safely in a general space and travel using a variety of locomotor movements in this variation of the game Four Corners.
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Locomotor Hello's
Students play a musical movement game in order to explore self space and general space using a variety of locomotor movements.
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Tumbling Dice
Students participate in body weight transfer activities while playing a group game with dice that show the activities.
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Come Fly with Me
Pupils identify rhyming words from the book A Fly Went By by matching words written on index card with same endings, eliciting word when prompted by teacher, and by identifying rhyming words in the text.
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Set Up Your Own Apartment
Students divide into groups and 'set up' an apartment together making lists of items to purchase from an allowance of money. They gain practice with basic equations in a real life context.
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Money Matters
Students count, record, and calculate money. They save, as well as to explain the value of jobs and working hard.
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Sound; Year 1
Young scholars, on a listening walk around the school and its grounds, make notes/comments on the range and variety of sounds in each environment. They listen to recorded sounds and attempt to recognize them.
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"It's the Great Pumpkin" Game
Students demonstrate the ability to perform a variety of locomotor movements and body shapes. The student book "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" is used with this lesson.
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Name & Word Wall Activities, Building Blocks: Literacy, Letter Recognition,
Students use the word wall to learn letters, their names, develop print awareness and many other literacy skills.
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Firefighters: Community Helpers
Students, after reading the book, The Fire Station Book, discuss how a firefighter helps people in a community. They also participate in songs and games about firefighting.
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Defining and Discussing Death
Students participate in an imaginary scenarios that involves different ways to confront and talk about issues surrounding death. Students will write a letter expressing their emotions to a pet or person who has died.
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Fishing for Foods
Young scholars practice using the food pyramid and know which food group familiar foods belong in.
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Relay Races
Students, in groups, race to the board drawing the music symbol, tagging the next person while SAYING THE NAME OF THE SYMBOL THEY DREW! (everyone draws the same symbol)
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Family Heritage
Students respond with at least one statement to each of the four questions dealing with families in a carousel brainstorming activity and draw a picture of what they think of when the term "families" is mentioned.
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Introduction to Community Helpers
First graders identity at least one community helper and what that helper does to help their community. To start the lesson, ask students if they know what a community helper is. students role-play some of these jobs that their community...
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Scooterville
Students practice safe driving on a scooter, following the "rules of the road", to develop fitness.