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Deck the Halls with Literature Trees
Reinforce and assess reading comprehension by having your class make a literature tree! After reading a book, pupils make decorations to represent the book's themes, characters, and setting. Materials for decorating can be as diverse and...
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Lots of Lakes: Greater Than, Less Than
To set up this activity, your class explores Minnesota's nickname as the Land of 10,000 Lakes, and the back of the state quarter that features a Minnesota lake. Young mathematicians compare the number 1 to the number 10,000 with support...
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Guided Reading: Cold and Hot
Explore the text, Cold and Hot, with comprehension strategies for young readers. First, give them a purpose for reading: find out what the boy wore outside in the snow! Then have them use one-to-one matching and picture clues to...
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We Play Music
Do you like music? Have your youngsters read We Play Music, practicing select reading strategies, like using picture clues to determine new words. Then, after their first independent read, have them re-read the story to a...
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Tortoise and Hare Races
Practice basic map skills with the story of The Tortoise and the Hare. After listening to the story, class members create a map that indicates the starting line, the path the animals took, where they stopped to rest, and the finish line....
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Kodomo No Hi: Children's Day Celebration
Children's Day is a beloved Japanese holiday with many colorful and engaging traditions. On this national holiday celebrated yearly on May 5, children are honored for their strengths and given good wishes for happiness. Your younger...
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Barnyard Protest: Cows, Chickens & Fundamental Freedoms
Here is an ambitious and engaging lesson that should help elementary schoolers begin to develop a basic understanding of human rights. Pupils are asked to think about their own rights, the rights of others, and how an individual's voice...
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Making Sense of the Census
In this unit of lessons, students make sense of the Census. They examine why a census is taken and participate in activities.
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Learning to Share
Students participate in a lesson/activity where they learn to share their toys and crayons. They listen to a short story about sharing read aloud by the teacher to the students. They discuss the questions in the story and the...
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What's In A Name?
Young scholars analyze themselves as members of the community. They choose a name to describe themselves and explain why they choose the name they did. They identify activities they perform in and out of school to help the community.
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Happy Family
In this family emotion activity, students draw a picture to illustrate something they do to make someone happy in their family. They complete a sentence by listing who their activity will make happy.
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Kindergarten Scavenger Hunt
Students participate in a scavenger hunt. In this icebreaker lesson plan, students are given Scavenger Hunt Sheets and search their new classroom for the objects.
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Learning A New Environment
Students inspect the school building. In this school environment lesson, students explore the school building to locate rooms on a map. Students will participate in a scavenger hunt locating new areas of the school.
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How About a Hand?
Learners experience a shared reading regarding the importance of feeling like a valued member of the community within a family. In this family member feelings lesson, students discuss the feelings and the motives of the characters....
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Simon Says "Who Are You?"
Young scholars explore their similarities and differences. In this getting to know you lesson, students play a variation of "Simon Says," according to various personality and physical traits.
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Peace Doves
Learners explore ways to obtain world peace. In this character education activity, students read the book Peace Begins With Me and brainstorm a list of ways learners can create a more peaceful world. Students use included dove patterns...
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Memories from the National Sites
Students write a virtual postcard. In this logo lesson students are introduced to the concept of postcard writing. Students research the national sites and states highlighted on quarters for that year. Students take a virtual trip to the...
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Symbols of America
Students research the events of September 11th . In this symbols lesson, students discover ways to honor this day. Students research the Internet for symbols used to represent ideas, events and people. Students work in groups to design a...
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Mayflower Craft
Students create a Mayflower craft object. In this visual arts lesson, students cut out sails and waves from construction paper and glue Popsicle sticks to the sails.
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Mother's Day Gift
Students create a Mother's Day gift. In this holiday art lesson, students use construction paper, glue, a photo, and an included poem to create an artistic Mother's Day gift. Students print out the poem and and place a picture of...
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Handy Map
Students become familiar with the purpose of maps through a hand mapping lesson. For this hand mapping lesson, students draw their hand and use it to explain directions and labeling on a map.
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Let's Learn About Jobs
Pupils evaluate the jobs that their parents do. In this literature-based social studies lesson, the teacher introduces the concept of work both at home and on the job and leads the children in the creation of a Venn diagram to aid in...
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My Holiday Portfolio
Students create a holiday portfolio by participating in these three lessons. They experience using the computer by using the provided student guides.
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Where's My Dot?
Students explore the five basic elements of Monart, dot, curved line, straightline, and angle line to create a book about their home address. The concept of "big" is explored in this lesson.