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Wall Paper and Paint Mosaic
Students create a wall mosaic. In this art activity, students post one large piece of butcher paper on a wall. Pieces of construction paper are torn into small squares. These small squares are dipped in the paint and put on the...
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Toilet Paper Tube Snowman
Learners create "toilet paper tube" snowmen using toilet paper rolls, paints, pipecleaners, construtcion paper, wiggly eyes, and markers in this winter-time activity. The lesson is intended for the early elementary classroom.
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Celebrating Groundhog Day with your Students
Celebrating Groundhog Day in your classroom is a fun-filled way to explore science, art, and literature.
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Winter Animal Match
Students play a game. In this matching lesson plan, students learn about animals and their winter homes. Students match cards of animals with the cards of winter homes.
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Ballads and Communication
Students compare and contrast different forms of communication. In this poetry instructional activity, students focus on the ballad form and read "Timothy Winters". Students draw conclusions from the ballad and divide into groups...
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The Symmetry of Snowflakes
Celebrating the change of season with science and language arts activities.
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GPS Art
Learners design their own logo or picture and use a handheld GPS receiver to map it out. They write out a word or graphic on a field or playground, walk the path, and log GPS data. The results display their "art" on their GPS receiver...
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Writing Prompt
Guided by a picture of children engaging in winter activities (building a snowman, sledding, etc), young writers compose three sentences about the picture. They are prompted to use three specific words provided in a word bank. The...
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Paragraph Structure
Make sure your writers have the buns and the meat in their paragraph burgers with paragraph exercises. The resource gradually leads up to individuals writing their own paragraphs, starting with identification exercises, moving on to...
ESL Kid Stuff
Seasons
English language learners celebrate the seasons with games, songs, and readings.
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Fact or Opinion: Animals
How many legs do spiders have? Is that an opinion, or is it a fact? Complete a worksheet with four sets of five questions about different animals and their attributes, noting whether each statement is a fact or an opinion.
K12 Reader
Indentured Servants
As a reading comprehension exercise, kids read an article about indentured servants and then respond to a series of questions citing evidence from the article to support their responses.
National External Diploma Program Council
Capitalization Review
Using correct grammar is a capital idea! Elementary readers review the rules of capitalization, including proper nouns, abbreviations of organizations, and holidays, before correcting the errors in two sets of sentences.
Macmillan Education
Comparative Adjectives
How can you show that an item is colder than something else? Or that it is more beautiful? Use a worksheet to reinforce the concept of comparative adjectives. With fill-in-the-blanks, word banks, and multiple choice questions, the...
Brigham Young University
Out of the Dust: Guided Imagery
A guided imagery exercise is a great way to get readers thinking about writing. As part of their study of Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse’s 1998 Newbery Medal winning verse novel, class members listen to a reading of one of the poems...
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Art: It Takes a Village
Young scholars identify the different areas found in a Winter Games Village and different sports played in the Winter Games. This will be done through whole group brainstorming.
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Winter Words-Fill in the Vowels
In this spelling worksheet, 1st graders fill in the blanks on each of eight words with the missing vowel. Each word is related to winter and winter activities.
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Snow Day
In this seasonal worksheet, students complete activities having to do with snow. A word search, a maze, and a short answer question all pertain to snow and winter vocabulary.
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Complete the Story
In this story activity, students fill in the blanks to a story about winter with words from a word bank. Students fill in 12 blanks total.
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Winter Picture Matching
In this picture matching worksheet, students draw lines to connect matching pictures. Pictures are of a scarf, snowmen, snowflake, ice skates, and a cloud.
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Creating and Preserving a Tradition
Pupils explore folk art and tradition. They work in small groups and produce an essay about folk art or traditions practiced in their community. Students discuss the creation and preservation of a tradition. They discuss various...
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Spring is Here
Students analyze changes between winter and spring. In this seasonal changes lesson, students read the story "Spring is Here." They record changes between winter and spring on a large chart paper. Students compare and contrast the...
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Snow Paintings
Young scholars work with water and food coloring as their medium to paint snow. They mix primary colors to make new colors while they decide on appropriate for their snow paintings as they relate to the curriculum.
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Where's the Boss? -- A Scripted Play About the Iditarod
Students utilize a Reader's Theater script and accompanying lesson plan to learn about the Iditarod race that takes place in Alaska. During the process, they also learn about teamwork and working together.