Wise Owl Factory
Mother's Day Cards to Print
Eight printable cards celebrate Mom on Mother's Day. Pages come with pictures to color, space to write, and a special spot for scholars to sign their name.
Curated OER
Play With Clay-'ay' Word Family
In this 'ay' word family instructional activity, students color a picture, read a sentence and circle correct answers to questions about it and trace and write the word clay.
Curated OER
-ail Spell and Write
Challenge your learners with this -ail spelling pattern worksheet. Young scholars look at a series of pictures and spell out words that describe the images using the line to the right. This worksheet is pleasing to the eye and...
Kids Can Have Fun
Cut and Paste Family
Kids cut, color, and paste together images that represent their families.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Fluency: Chunked Text, Reading Chunks
The activity focuses on reading chunked text. Peers grouped by specific ability levels take turns reading a text with proper intonation, expression, and phrasing.
Curated OER
Lines in Space 3-D Wrapped Sculpture
Students create a hanging sculpture from wrapped piping cord or roping. They discuss color palate, and reasons to limit colors. Students discuss color families and contrast, choosing cool colors and a warm color for contrast. They wrap...
Curated OER
Shapes
Students differentiate objects based on contrast in physical characteristics such as color, texture, size and shape. They also recognize and sort objects by color families.
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Our Families, Yours, and Mine
Students study the similarities and differences in families and identify attributes in themselves and others.
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Fact Families
In this fact families worksheet, students fill in 6 pictures of a house with a fact family. Groups include 3, 5, 8 and 4, 7,11.
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Genetics
Students create a checklist of traits common in all of their families. Uisng a table, they compare and contrast their family members to non-family members. They also review dominant and recessive traits and discuss how knowing about...
Curated OER
Family Quilts Keep Us Warm
Students explore different types of families and cultures. They create a paper quilt with geometric designs of similar colors to show unity and pictures of each of their families to show diversity.
Curated OER
"O'Keefe Flowers"
Even the smallest things in nature are big when you paint like Georgia O'Keefe. Master the art of color choice and larger-than-life drawing with a lesson that helps little ones draw a normal object in a larger scale. This is a good art...
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An Apple Tree in Fall
First graders discover the two color families and how artists use the colors to express mood or feeling. Students paint pictures using water colors of an apple tree and include background, middle ground, and foreground in their scene.
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Tone Color
Fourth graders recognize instruments by name and put them in to families as well as start to develop an ear for hearing individual instruments. They react and interact with the different games played during the class. They raise their...
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Dr. Seuss Hat Printable
Inspired by The Cat in the Hat, this printable can be used in a number of ways. The hat is made up of five stripes and a brim that kids can write on, color, cut out, and more.
Anti-Defamation League
“Walling Out the Unwanted”: Understanding the Barriers that Perpetuate Anti-Immigrant Bias
As part of a study of immigrant bias, high schoolers investigate the language used in blogs, readings, media reports, and current legislation whose language perpetuates xenophobia. They then consider ways they can get involved in...
Curated OER
Collective Poetry: Teaching Tolerance
Help your class create collective poetry following a simple, engaging model from Teaching Tolerance (tolerance.org). Each young poet writes five things on an index card: sayings from others, favorite sound, favorite place, favorite...
Missouri Department of Elementary
Family Traditions
Honor family traditions with a lesson that examines the variety of winter celebrations. Class members discuss their family's traditions then complete a cut-and-paste practice page in which they match a picture to the name of a holiday....
Curated OER
Twirly Whirly Milk
Student observe the effect soap (or detergent) has on the movement of food color in milk. Pupils observe the properties of solids and liquids while making butter. They read a poem, Shaking, and listen for ryhming words. Studdents...
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Family Names
In this fact family instructional activity, students examine a blank math cube with 10 squares. Students color some cubes red and some blue, then write a fact family for the numbers.
Do2Learn
Days and Weather Picture Cards
Weather happens everyday. Print these color weather cards onto card stock, laminate them, and use them in a daily weather forecasting routine that practices calendar skills and daily weather identification.
Curated OER
Vocabulary Building: Words with "OR"
In this spelling words with the "or" pattern learning exercise, students write words using definition clues, unscramble letters, and write sentences using the words or, for, more, before, and color. Students write fifteen short answers.
Kelly's Kindergarten
August Daily Activities
You'll feel more than prepared for the start of the school year with this collection of daily activities for the month of August! From filling in numbers on a calendar or coloring patterns to solving addition and reading comprehension...
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Meet the Instrument Families
Fourth graders listen to a recording of a string quartet and ask questions about what kinds of instrument they think they are listening to and describe what they think the instruments look like. Then they discuss musical ideas such as...