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The Kissing Hand
Pupils listen to "The Kissing Hand," by Audrey Penn to calm their fears of the first days of preschool or kindergarten.
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Happy Food Song
Students learn a song. In this food instructional activity, students learn the Happy Food Song. Students are given a food model and identify their food. Students sing the song with motions.
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Sleep and Energy
Students explore the concept of a good night's rest. In this sleep and energy lesson, students keep track of hours slept per night for a week and how they feel each day. Students discuss how good rest contributes to feeling alert...
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Farms And Cities
Students differentiate the differences of living on a farm or in a city. They do this with the use of coloring pictures and have group discussion about each picture to identify characteristics and identify where the picture is from. The...
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Shapes!
Explore five basic shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, and stars with youngsters. They will participate in hands-on activities, draw each shape, name each shape. They also get to eat things that are in the shapes they have just...
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Toy Inventors Workshop
Eleventh graders investigate the technology of designing toys by conducting interviews with preschool age children. Ideas are obtained for making new types of toys. They design the toys and then use computer technology to share the...
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Assessing Children's Learning and Development
Pupils assess children's learning and development so that their preschool can be developmentally appropriate. They participate in creating file folder games to use with their preschoolers in the future. These games help the children in...
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Letter A Word Search
Young scholars practice their handwriting and word recognition. For this letter A lesson, students identify eight words with pictures as they use lowercase letters to complete an elementary word search.
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Hot Hoops
Students work on jumping and landing skills and cooperation. This lesson enables students to better use in space, while learning different colors. In this game, everyone is a winner.
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Air Pollution: What Can You Do?
Students discuss and write about air pollution in their journals. They practice using new vocabulary words associated with pollution and write sentences using those words. They end the lesson by determining what they can do to fight air...
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Give Me Five A Day!
Students engage in a lesson lead by the teacher to discover the diet plan of increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables. They conduct discussions in class with each other, at home with parents, and in the community if possible.
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Nurturing Children
Pupils identify the importance of nurturing children. In this child development lesson, students define what it means to nurture a child. Pupils research the importance of the topic and discuss the findings. Students write a reflection...
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If You Give a Pig a Pancake - P is for Pancakes!
Students read "If you give a pig a pancake" then write the letter P with pancake batter on a griddle tablet for a yummy treat to eat!
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Flower Painting/Printmaking
Using old or donated flowers, little learners create flower prints. They discuss the colors found in nature, paint a background, and then create flowers for their pictures by dipping and pressing real flowers onto their paper.
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"Tongue Tangle"
First graders engage in a study of phonics that focuses on the beginning sounds with an emphasis upon varying types of genres that includes songs, speech, and poetry. They recognize the beginning sounds of words and make physical...
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Art Using Sequence
Students are introduced to representative works of various artists including Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Sonia Delauny, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and Henri Rosseau. They read books, participate in discussion and create original works of art.
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Abe Lincoln's Log Cabin
Students study Abe Lincoln and make a log cabin out of pretzel sticks and chocolate frosting.
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Art with Colored Shaving Cream
Students use different textures and mediums to paint with.
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Number Types: Where Vocabulary Meets Numbers
Rational, irrational, real, natural. All these words can refer to numbers. Who knew? Learners use the Visual Thesaurus and a semantic feature analysis grid to examine the different attributes of numbers. Step-by-step instructions for...
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Bunny Rabbit
Students design their own bunny mask to follow-up reading the book, Runaway Bunny.
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Another Backpack Idea- The Button Bag
Learners receive activity bags to bring home and share with their families. They are excited to have "homework" and they accomplish several skills by completing the activities within the bags. This is great for special needs students.
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African Animals A-Z
African animals A-Z are on parade in this activity, which provides teachers with a year's worth of coloring and spelling sheets for little writers. Popular animals, such as dolphins and elephants, have their own coloring pages, as well...
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Bookmarks
Students create bookmarks. In this art project, students decorate a bookmark with a personal photo attached. The bookmark is laminated and given to the parents.