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How Do You Say Hello?
Students access an online resource to study how to say hello in Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic. They complete a worksheet telling how to say hello in these three languages before practicing the proper pronunciation of each.
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Bubble Pop-Short Vowels
In this short vowel worksheet, students place an X over bubbles that have words with short vowel sounds printed on them. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Say it. Build it, Write it. Read it.
In this consonant digraph worksheet, students select the bubbles that represent the sounds of the word that is pictured. They put the sounds together by writing the word.
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Word a Day
Students create a word bank of sight words. Each student creates his/her own personal word bank, and creates pictures to illustrate the word.
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The Unknown Secrets of the Rain Forest
Students explore the rain forest and where they are located. Students examine why the rain forests are important and what is happening to them. They investigate the water cycle and life cycle of a frog. Students build a rain forest in...
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Spelling Graffiti
Students practice the skill of spelling through using creative art integrated with technology. They use technology by using powerpoint slides for each spelling word. Then students work to create posters for spelling words with colors or...
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I Imagine
Students discuss the importance of using sensory words to describe objects; talking about words that refer to size, shape, texture, sound, smell, etc. They select a few objects around the classroom and use sensory words to describe.
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Forest Friends Forever
Students investigate how to use the senses to gather information about objects such as size, shape, color, texture, sound, position, and change (qualitative observations are utilized throughout this instructional activity). They...
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Create a Computer Story
Second graders will create their own story and read it aloud. In this literacy/technology lesson, 2nd graders use computer software to create their own story, which is read back to them while they write it. Afterward, the student should...
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Phonogram: "TH" and "EE"
In this recognizing words with th and ee learning exercise, students read sentences, identify the phonograms, and draw pictures illustrating the sentences. Students complete 4 activities.
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Animals: Farm Animals
Students examine the different types of animals that live on a farm. They participate in online games and activities to help them explore the different types of farm animals.
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Free Printables: Large ABC Cards
In the alphabet activity, students cut out the large alphabet flash cards. There are 2 flash cards on each page and they have words and pictures that use the letter sounds.
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Coloring A Short Vowel Picture
In this short vowels coloring instructional activity, students read 15 short vowel words printed in a drawing of a chicken. Students use the key to color the sections correctly in the picture.
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Identifying Singular Phonograms in Sentences
For this phonics worksheet, learners read five sentences and circle the given initial consonant sound in any words they see. Students draw a picture about each sentence.
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Short Vowel Activities
In this short vowel worksheet, students place an X through bubbles with short vowel words printed on them. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Our Lives and the Four Seasons
Students compare and contrast the four seasons. Using this information, they determine the plant, animal and environmental activities that can be enjoyed in each season. They discuss why the seasons must change and how humans adapt to them.
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Brown Bears
Students read books and facts to learn about the brown bear. In this brown bear lesson plan, students also color coloring pages, and make a paper bag craft.
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GALIMOTO
Second graders identify Malawi, Africa on a map of Africa and demonstrate their resourcefulness and creativity by making their own galimoto.
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Rainbow Spelling (Kinesthetic Approach To Encoding)
Second graders demonstrate their encoding skills by spelling words using color coded paper, match correct letters with the colored paper to spell the words in standard form, and self correct any errors made in the spelling with colored...
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Take A Walk On The Wildside
Students study big cats in a variety of lessons included in this unit.
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Graphing Our Favorite Candy Bars
Young scholars use ClarisWorks to graph class' favorite candy bars on a bar graph.
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Walk into the Desert, A Line and Wash Landscape
Young scholars discuss a landscape art print and its composition. They create a landscape underdrawing with foreground, middleground and background as well as repeated elements for rhythm. They add a watercolor wash and lights/darks for...
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Cultures Around the World
Pupils examine the types of celebrations around the world. They create pictures of animals speaking another language than their own and draw flags of countries around the world. They also retell a folktale to their classmates.