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How Do You Get to School?
Students, through a literature based assignment, explore basic modes of transportation and examine how different things move at different speeds.
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Weekend With Wendell
Students discuss prior knowledge about mice, and read a mouse poem. They listen to the teacher read "A Weekend With Wendell" and discuss Wendell's possible reaction when coming to visit the school media center. Students compose a class...
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Sorting
Students explore how to logically sort and store information in order to make it easy to manage and easily retrieved. They explore methods they can use to organize and manage information.
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Sounding Out the Symbols
Students examine the Mississippi state quarter and the Magnolia blossom. They discuss the "m" sound and other words that begin with "m". They discuss symbols that could represent their school and design a school quarter.
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ABC Community Walk
Pupils listen to several stories about cities and different types of communities. They take a walk in their city to identify unique characteristics. They create an alphabet book using people or features of their own community to go with...
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Teaching Language Arts in Kindergarten Using Stories, Aesop's Fables, and Tall Tales
Students search into a variety of story elements in the eight lessons of this unit. The title, author, illustrator, setting, main character, problem, solution, events and the story are the components of the lessons.
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Ants Have Feelings, Too!
Young scholars consider how they show respect for others. For this service learning lesson, students listen and respond to literature from different perspectives.
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Traveling Community Journal Project
Students create an online "community journal". In this communities lesson, students use a writing template to send e-mail to various people to learn more about their community. The journal is passed from person to person.
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Ways to Start the Year Off Right
Here are some simple ways to get your year off to a great start.
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"Same But Different"
Pupils recognize and spell words in homophone sets. They assign the correct meaning to each word in a homophone set.
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What Can We Discover About Colorado?
Students locate Colorado and its neighbors on a map (either in a book or on the Internet). They create a graphic that illustrates what they know and want to know about the state (KWL); finally, they draw and label Louisiana maps.
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"Wheels, Wings and Other Things"
Students participate in various reading and writing activities related to the book "Wheels, Wings and Other Things" by Monica Hughes and Barbara Hunter. They participate in a shared reading activity, and write a new page for a book...
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Chrysanthemum Sound Boards
Students listen and match sounds such as rhyming, beginning, ending and vowel sounds to build phonemic awareness.
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Color Picture/Word Match
Students match colors to the color words that they represent and complete a matching puzzle to go with it. In this colors lesson plan, students put the puzzle together to match up the colors.
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Alphabetizing with Old Black Fly
Students listen to an alphabet book and practice alphabetizing skills by placing cards in their appropriate slot.
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Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Introduction to the Nature Journal [Pdf]
Smithsonian in the Classroom presents "Introduction to the Nature Journal." Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students will practice and develop their skills of writing observations and making hypotheses....