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Making A Step Book or Layer Book

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils create a step book for their Math, English or Social Studies class. They pick a topic of their choice and illustrate the pages for their book. They share their book with the class.
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Hands-on Outdoor ABCs

For Teachers All
Students go on a walk outdoors in the fall and collect items that start with different letters of the alphabet. They discuss the different textures, colors, shapes (including alphabet shapes), etc. that they found.
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Folktale Unit: Johnny Appleseed

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in a shared reading of Steven Kellogg's, Johnny Appleseed and discuss the meaning of folktales and legends. They watch a video of the same story for comparison purposes. They journal about their favorite folktale and...
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Mother's Day Gift

For Teachers All
Students create a unique Mother's Day gift out of an old shoe.
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Glow in the Dark Stars and Planets

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students view a "night sky" made from glow in the dark stars. They discuss stars, planets, the sun, and constellations.
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First-Aid and Emergencies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate how much they know concerning first-aid using real life examples to figure out what to do in emergency situations.
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I've Got the Blues!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers identify the musical form of the 12-bar blues. They identify a problem from the "Farming in the 1940's" section and compose a 12-bar blues song. make comparisons between problems of the 1940's and today.
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Experimenting with Colors

For Teachers K
Students experiment with mixing primary colors together using frosting and pretzel sticks.
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The House That Drac Built Haunted Houses

For Teachers K
Pupils build a haunted house out of a paper bag, and decorate it with shapes cut out of construction paper. They attach their address to the bag to aid in memorizing this important information.
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The House That Drac Built -- Haunted Houses

For Teachers K
Students are read a book about haunted houses and dracula. They decorate a paper bag as they choose using shapes and ghosts. They practice stating their address and may take their house home when they have said it correctly.
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Who's Here Today?

For Teachers Pre-K
Students sing a song while clapping their hands and listening for the first letter of their name. In this attendance activity, students participate in locomotor activities such as turning around and squatting down. Students jump up and...
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Halloween Counting

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this Halloween math worksheet, students count the number of black cats pictured on the worksheet and circle the number 13, 14, or 15 as the appropriate number of cats shown.
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No is No, Si is Yes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders match the body part words in Spanish to a picture. They receive a picture of a human with lines coming from its feet, hands, and arms. Students use a word bank, to write the Spanish word that corresponds to the picture. ...
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Phonics Activities for Aa and Ii

For Teachers K
Students participate in a number of activities to study the letters A and I. They use food items such as apples and cereal as manipulatives for the activities.
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Flour Art

For Teachers K
Students create pictures using white and whole wheat flour, oatmeal, and cornmeal while learning the different types of grains used to make breads.
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I Am Here Today

For Teachers K
Students learn the letters in their name and the order of the letters to make their name.
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Pretzel Art

For Teachers K
Students use fine motor and creativity skills in designing pretzel people or basic shapes. They can glue the pretzel sticks and circles on their piece of cardboard to make realistic or abstract designs.
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Summer Watercolor Pictures

For Teachers All
Students create a watercolor picture to express themselves. They focus on what they did over summer vacation. They place their pictures in a class book about what they did over the summer.
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Wallpaper Frame

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students design and create a frame for a picture of their choice. They use scraps of wallpaper to decorate their frame. They share their frames with their classmates.
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Tool Time Song

For Teachers All
Students examine real-life tools and watch demonstrations on how to use them from a handyman. They create a song about tools and their sounds. They also identify when to use a certain tool.
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Name Songs

For Teachers All
Students use music to help them with the names of children in their class. They identify the letters used in their own name and practice saying them. They create a class book as well.
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Treasure Hunt for Shapes

For Teachers K
Students identify shapes in objects of everyday items. They are looking for circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. They draw each shape on a piece of paper and write the name of the shape underneath it to keep for future reference.
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Where is Triangle?

For Teachers K
Students listen to songs to discover different shapes. They tape the shapes to their fingers and when they sing about that shape they are to show the shapes to each other.
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Make Your Own Shape Puzzles

For Teachers All
Students create their own shape puzzles. They practice putting puzzle pieces together so they fit correctly. They classify and sort the different shapes as they finish the puzzle.