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Listen to Poems and Rhyme
Students create rhymes. In this rhyming lesson plan students supply rhymes for Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain. The students group words according to rhyming patterns.
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The Little Engine That Could
Students read the story The Little Engine That Could and read companion stories, predict in a chart, work with rhyming and word families, and more. For this reading lesson plan, students take 5 days to read the book.
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Learning Rhymes
Students practice reading and writing in this cross-curricular lesson for the early-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed on daily practice, individual improvements, and positive reinforcements for jobs well done during the activity.
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Picture Match
Students match pictures with words that have specific phonics connotations. In this picture matching lesson plan, students have groups of words with the same phonics sayings.
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Color Recognition Game
Students study color words. In this math lesson plan, students complete a variety of activities on the computer in which they identify colors and color words.
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Take a Plane or a Train
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. Instead of a bus, students attempt to sing the song using a different mode of transportation.
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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Students explore transportation and transportation related jobs as they improve their vocabulary.
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How Does It Move?
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. They attempt to sing the song again, but change it for a tractor. They watch the book, A Visit With Grandma, through a projector, LCD panel, or big screen television and develop their...
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The Best Pet
Learners listen to the story , Pet Show, and discuss the variety of animals that were in the show. The class recalls the animals and practice sounding out the names. Then they decide which animal should receive the best of show ribbon.
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Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
Learners identify and use patterns in oral and written language, as well as in sounds, physical movements, and concrete objects.
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Pattern Detectives
Students discover patterns in language, math and science. They experience patterns by hearing stories, and becoming pattern detectives.
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Ribbit! Ribbit!
Students research a frog's life cycle and habitat using books, the Internet and lecture. Students make origami frogs, write letters to Toad from Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad" and participate in a simulated camouflage activity.
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Valentine's Day Poems
Roses are red, violets are blue, poems are sweet, and educational too.
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Jack Sprat Could Eat No Fat
Students listen to a view a "Jack Sprat Could Eat No Fat" poster and vocabulary. They sing the "Jack Sprat" song, review vocabulary and vocabulary applications. Afterward, they chant the nursery rhyme as well as sing it.
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Oh! The Stories Behind Nursery Rhymes
Students investigate the games that children used to play to nursery rhymes. They explore the role of illustrators and illustrate their own book of rhymes in this unit.