Curriculum Corner
Book Study: The Mitten
Looking for a set of resources to compliment a reading of The Mitten by Jan Brett? A fun winter resource has everything from story sequencing and writing prompts to a parts of speech sort and a mitten flap book. The activities are great...
Curriculum Corner
Book Study: The Polar Express
All aboard! Pair a reading of The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg with a set of literacy activities. The packet of worksheets includes task cards, sorting activities, a synonym match, comparing and contrasting activities, writing...
Coloring Squared
Christmas Presents—Practice Multiplication
What's covered in wrapping paper and sits under the Christmas tree? Have your third graders solve each multiplication square to figure out what color the each box should be. Once all the squares are colored, young mathematicians discover...
Coloring Squared
Snowman—Practice Multiplication
What has a carrot nose, wears a scarf, and is made out of snow? Looks like you'll have to solve the multiplication facts to figure out the colors of each box that makes up this multiplication color-by-number activity.
Nosapo
Shopping for Clothing
Let's go shopping! A series of activities focus on vocabulary words related to articles of clothing and shopping for clothes. Additionally, learners complete sentences using how much and how many.
Therapist Aid
Why I’m Grateful
What are you grateful for, and why? Learners respond to six open-ended questions or statements by writing what they are grateful for this week, why they are grateful for their family and themselves, and other things they are grateful for...
Plimoth Plantation
Thanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian
Take on the roles of two very different individuals living together during the same time: a pilgrim and a member from the Wampanoag Tribe. As learners navigate through the interactive, each click takes them to a part of each village to...
Coloring Squared
Thanksgiving Turkey—Holiday Subtraction
It's time to practice 2-digit subtraction up to 20 the fun way. Learners solve a grid full of subtraction problems and then color each square the appropriate color according to the key. The final picture: a turkey!
Coloring Squared
Thanksgiving Pilgrim—Holiday Subtraction
What's the mystery picture? Pupils solve the subtraction problems in each square. Then they use the key at the bottom to determine the color of the square.
National Association of School Nurses
Learn to Be Smart and Safe with Medicine
Begin educating young people on how to be smart and safe with medicine. Use a set of workbook pages to explore what symptoms are, uses for medications, how to read prescription and over-the-counter medicine labels, and who to trust when...
Education World
My Pumpkin Story
Have young pumpkin carvers use technology to create a unique pumpkin face and write a short story about the special characteristics of their pumpkin.
Education World
Pumpkin Puzzler
Light the Halloween festivities with an exercise that connects math, physical science, and language arts. After watching a demonstration of a burning candle, learners use division, multiplication, or algebra to determine how many boxes...
Curated OER
BIG Pumpkins!
How big is the biggest pumpkin you've ever seen? Did it weigh over a ton—literally? Young learners view pictures of some record-breaking pumpkins, including some that weighed over 1,300 pounds, before answering five word problems about...
Library of Congress
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Include the eBook version of The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm in your next fairy tale unit. Start with the table of contents to discover which tales to read first.
Nosapo
Dictionary
Brush up on those dictionary skills with a simple worksheet that has pupils looking up words in a dictionary, writing the definition, and using the words in a sentence.
Nosapo
Writing the Date
Month, day, year; day, month, year. How many ways can you write the date? Have class members practice writing the dates of the year in three different ways.
Curriculum Corner
16 Fall Themed Math and Literacy Centers for Kindergarteners
Look no further because your fall literacy and math centers are here. Cards allow learners to practice counting, writing, tracing, finding missing numbers and letters, skip count, and match letters to their sounds.
Curriculum Corner
Fall Writing Paper
What better way to write in fall than with fall-themed writing paper? Use a set of lined papers to get you started.
California Education Partners
From Seed to Pumpkin by Wendy Pfeffer
Conduct a lesson that leads into a writing assessment. After reading an excerpt from From Seed to Pumpkin, first graders demonstrate their interpretation of sections of the passage by sketching the details from each part.
Nosapo
Verbs: Regular, Irregular, Simple Past Tense
Adding -ed to the ends of most verbs can change a sentence to the past tense—but what about verbs like think or draw? Provide class members with practice activities that focus on both regular and irregular verbs in the simple past tense.
Nosapo
Learn the Alphabet
Carefully trace each letter of the alphabet in upper- and lowercase. Using traceable letters, young writers practice their handwriting skills.
Library of Congress
The Story of The Three Little Pigs
Bring the 1904 version of the classic kid's tale, The Story of the Three Little Pigs to your young readers. With original drawings by L. Leslie Brooke, young reader take a step into a world where pigs can talk and a wolf is big and bad.
Teacher's Corner
The Magic School Bus: Plays Ball Video
Join the Magic School Bus crew as they take a field trip to the baseball field. Learners respond to questions as they watch the video.
Roald Dahl
Matilda - The New Home
Matilda finally gets her happy ending with a new home with Miss Honey. But first, Mr. Wormwood goes on trial for his wrong doings and bad car sales. Class members take on the role of a character in the trial and participate in a role...