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Literacy Activity: Mouse Shapes
Students listen to the book Mouse Shapes and identify the shapes in the book as it is being read. In this shapes lesson, students identify the shapes in the book, and then play with cut out shapes that they can hold in their hands.
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Shapes Sally Snake Can Make Story Book
Young scholars listen to the book Shapes Sally Snake Can Make while they hold their own snake made out of a pipe cleaner. In this shapes instructional activity, students develop their listening skills while the book is read to them, and...
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Kente Cloth
Students explore patterns and identify, extend, and translate color patterns. They discuss the origin and function of Kente cloth from Ghana, and discuss the patterns they see in students' clothing. Students color in a variety of...
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Classifying Worksheet
In this shapes activity, 2nd graders color the shape in each row that is different from the rest. Students color shapes for 5 rows with different shapes in them.
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Shape Butterfly
In this shape recognition worksheet, students identify shapes and colors by coloring the circles red, the triangles yellow, and the oval blue.
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Graph Groups (One Color)
In this graphing worksheet, learners solve 5 problems in which the colored shapes in each set are counted. Students then fill out a bar graph to show how many of each color are in the sets.
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Alphabet Coloring Page: Letter Cc
In this alphabet coloring worksheet, students identify the uppercase and lowercase letter Cc. Students color the image and words for the cat.
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Alphabet Coloring Page: Letter Bb
In this alphabet coloring worksheet, students identify the uppercase and lowercase letter Bb. Students color the image and words for the butterfly.
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Letter Y Coloring Page
In this alphabet coloring learning exercise, students identify the uppercase and lowercase letter y. Students color the image and words for the yolk.
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Same Shapes
In this same shapes activity, students color shapes in rows that match the 1st one shown in each row, then trace a set of shapes twice and draw once.
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Shapes
Students sort objects by shape, size and color. In this math and literacy sorting lesson, students listen to the book Freddy the Fish and the Squash that Goes Squish by Duke Christoffersen. Students work in small groups to sort vegetable...
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Triangle Coloring Sheet
In this shape-themed coloring worksheet, students use crayons and markers to color the word triangle as well as the picture of a triangle.
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My Abstraction
What makes a color warm, and what makes a color cool? Explore colors and abstract art through an observation activity and an art assignment. Learners look at images and talk about colors before making their own compositions with...
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Volume and Surface Area, A Sweet Activity
Geometry.... sweet! Using sugar cubes, learners build rectangular prisms of different sizes and shapes. They glue them together and assess volume. Then they color the outer sides to visualize and compute surface area. To make a visceral...
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Investigation So What's The Difference?
First graders investigate the differences between shapes. In this block characteristics lesson, 1st graders work in groups to explore blocks, group the blocks by different characteristics, discuss the block attributes and record...
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All About Seeds!
How do fruits relate to flowers and seeds? Identify the seeds and their purpose with a coloring activity for kindergartners. Once they color the seeds of apples, bananas, and peas (among others), kids get hands-on experience with bean...
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Seed Sort
"One of these things is not like the other. . ." After listening to a story about seeds and discussing the role of seeds, kindergartners sort five different seeds by size, shape, and color.
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Anatomy and Simple Commands
Poor Joe is all in pieces, and he needs students to learn the Latin words for his body parts so that they can put him back together! Learners work as a class first to perform whole-body reconstruction, and then individually. In addition,...
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Tissue Paper Designs
Fifth graders explore the colors in the color wheel and complete a tissue art activity that includes a minimum of three different colors from the color wheel and two colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. They discuss...
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Symmetry (Bug)
Play around with symmetry with this worksheet! Learners examine an image of half of a bug drawn on grid paper and complete the drawing, making the image symmetrical. The bug contains curved lines as well as patterns to copy over to the...
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Stars and Planets Connect the Dots
Reach for the stars with this cute connect-the-dots activity! Kindergartners practice their counting and number sequencing by connecting the numbers 1 through 6 or 10 in four different shapes. A rocketship is completed for them as an...
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Attributes of Plane Shapes
In this math worksheet, learners study a grouping of random geometric shapes including circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. Students follow directions to color all the similar shapes the same color.
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Junie B.'s Band-Sid Shapes
For this Junie B. Jones activity worksheet, students identify the 8 band-aid shapes pictured on the sheet and then color each of them.
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Prokaryote Coloring
In this prokaryote coloring activity worksheet, 7th graders read an informative passage about prokaryotes. Students answer questions about the passage and color the picture.