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Halloween Rhymes and Songs
Learners learn, memorize, and replay a rhyme. In this Halloween-themed lesson plan, students discover Halloween rhymes and songs while they pretend to be the characters that chase ghosts away.
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Fry's Second Hundred Sight Words: 11-20
In this sight word worksheet, students practice tracing words 11-20 of Fry's second hundred sight words; words are traced 3-4 times.
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Flip Camera Christmas Lessons and Ideas
Students use a Flip camera to complete various projects about Christmas. In this Christmas and technology lesson, students write and record letters to Santa. Students write letters to Christmas characters and record them. Students make...
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Trees
In these language arts worksheets, students will analyze the poem "Trees" by Sara Coleridge. Students will then read about and color nine different types of trees.
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Poetic Podcasting
Pupils create poetry and post them in a Podcast. In this poetry activity, students create poetry based on different subject ares and post them as a Podcast.
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Bears on Bicycles
In this letter B worksheet, students read a poem about bears on bicycles. Students count the number of words that begin with letter B.
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A Word (or two!) about Seuss
In this Dr. Seuss worksheet, students complete an acrostic poem, using Dr. Seuss's name, to describe what they think of Dr. Seuss.
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Everyday Heroes
Students identify the heroes in their everyday lives. They compose a class poem about heroes, which they illustrate and bind into a book. A Reading Rainbow episode is used in this lesson.
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My Dream World
Students discuss their dream worlds with their classmates. They write their ideas of a dream world in a paragraph or poem. They can also show their dream world by drawing a picture.
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Cookie Shape Book
In this shaped book worksheet, students color and cut out the shape of a cookie for the cover of a book. They trace their cut out and make pages for their book. Pages are stapled together. Students write stories, poems, riddles, or...
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Down By the Bay
In this "Down by the Bay" worksheet, learners read the poem, respond to 8 short answer question, review 16 sight words, and color and arrange the 14 pictures in chronological order.
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Help Save the Polar Bear
In this ecology awareness worksheet, students read a poem written on a polar bear's tummy that tells how changing light bulbs and saving energy will help save the polar bear and then color the bear. Students color 1 picture.
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B for Bear
In this bear worksheet, students read informational passages that detail facts about bears. Students also read a short poem about a bear.
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Greetings
In this greetings instructional activity, students unscramble the letters in the 3 examples to find the three different greetings. Students then read a poem about greetings.
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Who Took the Shamrock? Pocket Chart Game
Students read a jingle about shamrocks to learn basic poetry and participate in a seasonal activity. In this seasonal jingle lesson, students' names are written on shamrocks to insert themselves into a jingle about shamrocks.
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Rhyming Words: Green Eggs and Ham
In this rhyming words learning exercise, students read 6 words and look for rhyming words from Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham. Students list the words they find.
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Joseph Raffael
Young scholars examine and discuss a painting of a lizard by the artist Joseph Raffael. They list descriptive words about the lizard, and write a Cinquain and create a painting about a lizard.
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Global Art: A Sense of Caring
Students participate in a global art project in which students from around the world share their art. They explore different cultures and languages as they view different types of art.
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The Giving Tree Gives
Students study both poetry and science in this language arts activity for early elementary, Special Education, and LEP students. They listen to Shel Silverstein's, The Giving Tree, and discuss its contents. They graph apple types, make...
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Demon Masks
Students, using a story for inspiration, create their own demon mask. They are to use lots of color, texture and imagination.
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You Can Do It, Mr. And Mrs. Mallard!
Students watch the video "Make Way for Ducklings" by Robert Mc Closkey. They write letters to Mr. and Mrs. Mallard and make a map for the mallards. They talk about the importance of animal habitats.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Visually represent a retelling of the story by writing and illustrating their own Hungry Caterpillar book.Observe and describe the life cycle of a butterfly.Also, observe caterpillars, record growth rates and changes over time.
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Write Simple Rhymes
First graders observe that rhyming words have different beginnings, but the same endings by viewing examples on the overhead projector. They say the beginnings of the words that go with the correct endings. They then come up one at a...
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Humpty Dumpty Webquest
Students explore and dramatize the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty." They explore a variety of nursery rhyme websites, and listen to, dramatize, and recite Humpty Dumpty. Students also answer comprehension questions and sequence the...