Students participate in a variety of activities to practice words with the Bb sound. In this Bb sound lesson, students use craft rolls to create butterflies. Students create a letter book with B words

First graders explore animals and initial sounds. They create a slideshow by clicking and dragging background pictures, letters, animal pictures and sounds to accompany each slide. Students search for animals whose name is the same sound...

Students study facts about spiders using a number of literary forms, including stories, poems, and songs. They work with consonant sounds by matching pictures with the beginning consonant sounds. They design art projects that emphasize...

Students listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear and imitate the style of Eric Carle in writing a sentence.  In this writing instructional activity, students use the beginning and ending sounds of words to write an Eric Carle type...

In this memory worksheet, students learn about three different ways to memorize given information. They make up phrases to help remember lists and they create mental maps to remember terms. They put what they learned to the test and...

Students discover how weather affects their lives. They review the climates of Florida, Alaska and New York. They need choose the place they would most like to live in based on the climate of that state.

Students take a field trip to a farm or observe pictures of farms and animals in the classroom. They paint a mural of a farm setting with animals. They practice phonetic skills with farm stories and songs. They explain how milk becomes...