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Christmas, Christmas, Christmas Webquest
Pupils choose a country to research. They incorporate a graphic organizer like Kidspiration/Inspiration to plan their research. Students create a presentation using Keynote or an Apple works table to present their information to the class.
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Number Song
Students sing a song (to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas) that helps reinforce their counting skills.
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Bible Activities
In this religion worksheet, learners draw a happy or sad face over 6 pictures depending on whether or not they would make Jesus happy. Students also complete various activities related to the Bible. For example, learners color in...
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Seeing What You Read
Students practice visualizing what they read and hear in a text. They listen to selected passages from a text read by the instructor. Students discuss the visual pictures they see when listening to the text. After listening to a...
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The Joy of Giving
Children identify wants and needs, bake and sell cookies to raise money, and then go to the mall to purchase gifts for Christmas stockings that are donated to the Salvation Army. They then perform Graphing activities to help children...
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How Much Longer is the Day?
In this daylight hours learning exercise, students use pictures given to write a number sentence and calculate the answers. This learning exercise has 3 word problems.
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Millennium Santa!
Third graders decide what would make Santa look modern and in style. They write a descriptive paragraph that another student then reads. They try to draw the image conveyed in the writing. They read the paragraphs and match them with the...
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Bible Activity--Luke 3:1-6
For this Bible worksheet, students study the story and lessons in Luke 3:1-6 (prepare the way of the Lord). Students complete activities on 7 pages including crosswords, codes, coloring, mazes, and word search.
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Shoe Shuffle
Pupils review the "word choice" writing trait, and recall how to use descriptive words to paint a picture. They write a description of one of their tennis shoes without sharing it with classmates. They place a shoe on display while the...
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Being Thankful
Students generate words and pictures to show their thankfulness. In this Thanksgiving art lesson, students draw various circles, labeling and illustrating the things for which they are grateful.
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Write to Read
Students discover how to write to improve their reading skills. In groups, they take pictures of a variety of school events and compile them into a PowerPoint presentation. To end the lesson, they add a narration to the slides and share...
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95 Nouns
A list of 95 nouns provides a great example to define nouns for your class. They can keep this at their desks for reference. Also, you can cut the list into strips to keep in a "noun jar," or have kids circle their favorite ones! This...
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Writing a Television Advertisement
Pupils choose their favorite television show, craft and illustrate an advertisement for this show, and then write a short paragraph about why the show appeals to them. No provisions are made for children with limited or no viewing...
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Character Tea Party
A tea party in Wonderland? An East Egg brunch with Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Nick? Breakfast with Miss Havisham, Lady Macbeth, and Abigail Williams? Or dinner with Andre, Hamlet, and Randle Patrick McMurphy? Class members select a favorite...
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How to Kit: Readers Theatre
Immerse your class in a good story with an extensive resource featuring reader's theater techniques. The worksheets are designed for both teacher and student, and carefully explain how to organize, write, and perform stories in a...
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Narrating a Family Tradition
After examining a piece of art, scholars discuss what they see, paying close attention to details and space. A read-aloud introduces the topic of family traditions. Pupils interview their family members about a tradition in preparation...
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Falling Leaves
Students create a painting of falling leaves. In this art lesson, students collect fallen leaves and paint over them using tempera or water color paint to make an outline. Students continue painting the leaves until their paper is...
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Santa Claus Around the World
Students investigate how students in various countries celebrate their winter holiday traditions, locate various countries on a map, and draw and tell about various Santa Claus legends.
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Going into the Great North
Students observe and investigate the areas included in the Great North. For this geography lesson, students observe a documentary based on the Great North. Later the students will draw and identify countries within the arctic circle and...
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Spring Bulletin Board
Students create a Spring bulletin board. Students color and cut out frogs and attach them to pipe cleaners. The frogs then bounce and move. Students discuss frogs and how tadpoles become frogs.
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Developing Tactile Skills
Students use their tactile abilities to determine items. In this tactile lesson plan, the teacher gathers small, recognizable items and places them in a box. The teacher reviews the items with the class. The students take turns...
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Odd and Even Numbers
First graders practice number identification by reading a story in class. In this number sense lesson, 1st graders read the story A Wish for Wings that Work and identify objects within the book's photographs. Students count the number of...
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Electric Light Tower
Students examine the San Jose Light Tower as an example of the development of urban lighting circa 1900. They view a slideshow, conduct research and write newspapers to chronicle the lighting ceremony from a variety of perspectives.
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Circle the Subjects
In this grammar worksheet, students circle the subject in fifteen sentences and put in an appropriate subject left out in eight additional sentences.