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Finger Puppets
Develop fine motor skills and put on a play with these finger puppets! Using this worksheet, learners color, cut out, and glue together finger puppets. There are 4 puppets: a girl, boy, dog, and a lion. As an extension activity, you...
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Monster Patterns
In this craft instructional activity, students use the two monster patterns to color, cut and glue to craft sticks to make puppets. Directions tell students to tell a partner a story about scary monsters.
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Market Maze
Learners must figure out the most efficient route to help Jack find his way to the market through a maze of trees and curvy lines. This is a great learning exercise to keep on hand for free-time activities.
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Castle Maze
Learners calculate the most efficient way to get through a castle maze starting at the top and ending at the bottom at the drawbridge. This is a great worksheet to keep on hand for free-time activities.
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The Hen Maze
Figure out the best route to get through a hen maze by starting at the top and ending at the bottom of the maze. This is a great worksheet to keep on hand for free-time activities.
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Castle Maze
Calculate the most efficient route for a knight to get through a maze of water and trees to reach the castle entrance. This is a great worksheet to keep on hand for free-time activities.
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Bag O' Beans Maze
Figure out the best route to make their way through a bag o' beans maze starting at the top and finishing at the bottom. This is a great activity to keep on hand for free-time activities.
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Lyrics Analysis Guide
Assist your learners as they unravel the wonders of lyric analysis. This resource breaks down the analysis process by hook, verse, and chorus. Each is briefly defined and is used to look at any song's lyrics in a systematic way.
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Make a Peace Windstock
In this making a peace wind stock worksheet, young scholars explore and experiment on how to design and create a peace wind stock to symbolize their feelings about peace.
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Happy or Sad
In this basic worksheet on identifying emotions, students view a picture portraying a "sad" rhino and a "happy" rhino. Students color the rhinoceros that is happy, and draw an x on the one that is sad.
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Preschool Coloring Page-Clown Pyramid
This coloring worksheet designed for pre-schoolers features a picture of a pyramid of clowns. There are many small parts and patterns which will require effort and adept fine motor skills to complete, however the lively theme should keep...
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Name the Rests
Help your musicians learn rest counts and rhythm symbols with these 16 fill-in-the-blank questions. Questions ask learners to draw the matching rest symbol per given rest count. The next set of questions ask the opposite, the correct...
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Dinosaurs Before Dark
Young readers travel back to the time of the dinosaurs in this literature unit based on the story Dinosaurs Before Dark. Intended for use with upper-elementary special education students, this resource provides reading...
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Relational Worksheet: Left and Right
In this positions of objects worksheet, students study the vehicles and circle the ones that are facing left. Students improve their understanding of left and right relationships.
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Word Association Poetry with Visual Thesaurus (or Not)
Young poets get inspiration and guidance for making word association poems with the Visual Thesaurus. Your class could complete this project with nothing more than a pencil and paper as well. A nice one-off for a substitute during your...
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Preparation for Performance Task: Using Writing to Make Prompt Cards
Writing becomes dynamic in a presentation. Presenters transform a piece of writing they have already composed about the Little Rock Nine into a presentation. The focus is transferring ideas from their writing into short prompts on cards...
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Cro-Magnon Cave Painting
In this cave painting worksheet, students make their own painting of an Ice Age beast utilizing the authentic colors of red, black and yellow.
Starfall
Dog and Cat
Students role-play a story about a cat and dog, follow the assembly instructions to piece together finger puppets, and complete letter-writing practice.
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Masks and Aesop's Fables
Learners study and perform Aesop's fables. In this Aesop's fables lesson, students read and/or listen to a number of the famous fables. They make masks based on the characters and perform a fable using the masks. They write about the...
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Money and Business (Art)
Third graders investigate world currency by creating their own coin art. In this government lesson, 3rd graders examine the characteristics of different coins and create their own design for a new one. Students discuss and...
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Color Worksheets for Preschool and Kindergarten
In this color worksheet, learners trace the color words by following the dots. Words are printed in the color they represent. Other color recognition activities are included with this page, such as a rainbow flash card game.
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Sea-ing More Clearly
Explore works of art with your class by engaging them in a variety of artistic activities including papier-mache sculpture, poetry, performance, and more. After viewing and discussing four paintings of the sea by Robert Harris, learners...
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Visual Aural Impressions
Students view a piece of impressionist art, listen to a piece of jazz music and then write a piece about the picture in the style of beat poets. They compare their writing and look for differences in their perceptions.
Star Wars in the Classroom
"Shakespeare and Star Wars": Lesson Plan Days 13 and 14
How important are sound effects in films? In stage plays? In radio programs? To gain an understanding of the impact of these special effects, class members watch a short video spoof of the sound in a scene from Star...