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Saving Makes Cents
Students identify ways families save money. For this financial lesson, students read the book A Chair for My Mother and discuss ways to save money. Students identify coin values and practice counting money.
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Family Unit
Students read the story, "The Surprise Family," then draw a picture of their own family. Students engage in a class discussion about the differences of families. They describe their "family picture," and their "family job." Nice lesson.
Northern Ireland Curriculum
Feeling Good, Feeling Sad
Fill your classroom with grand conversations about emotions and the healthy ways to express them. Your scholars will create a collage, play a feelings game, read stories, and reflect on their daily feelings.
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Family Quilts Keep Us Warm
Students discuss and describe the differences and similarities in families. After reciting finger plays about families, they draw pictures of their own families. Next, they incorporate their family pictures into a paper quilt.
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Rhyme Time
Students listen to a variety of stories and identify rhyming words. They sequence events in the story and generate rhymes of their own. They sort words by rhyming families and write rhymes of their own.
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D says DUH! Duh?
Pupils identify the letter D, both upper and lower case and recognize and identify the letter d in various words and illustrations. They identify how the mouth moves with the letter D through various word pronunciations. Finally,...
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You Can Bank on Me!
Students identify reasons people choose to donate. In this donating lesson plan, students contrast the words spend, save, and donate. Students learn a song about donating, brainstorm reasons to give, and make sound choices with their money.
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Lots of Labels
Students examine labels in the classroom to connect the written word with a message. They discover photographs of local buildings and their purpose. They also practice the classroom rules based on the labels.
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Leo the Late Bloomer Activity Card
In this reading worksheet, students respond to the book Leo the Late Bloomer by completing an activity at home. Students cut out 6 speech balloons and paste them by the character who said those words.
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Maths With the Mob
Students are read a book about aboriginal women. They compare and contrast a few items out of the book. They examine their families and discuss them with the class.
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Everybody Needs Somebody
Students brainstorm feelings words and discuss what causes us to have feelings. Using artwork, they discuss how different artists show feelings and emotions. Using the internet, they research how other cultures express their feelings and...
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Happy 100th Day!
In this math activity, students celebrate the 100th day of school by cutting out 3 bookmark sized posters. Each has a color picture of celebrating families and the words "Happy 100th Day!"
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Getting to Know You
Students complete an getting to know each other activity. In this personal names lesson, students play a name game, read a book about names, and then discuss why names are important. Students design a name card on oak tag rectangles and...
Heidi Songs
Th Sound (Th- Family Words)
Think about using these worksheets that focus on the th digraph! These materials provide plenty of opportunities for pupils to practice their spelling and phoneme recognition.
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Connect the Rhymes
As your pre-readers begin to understand phonemes and rhyming, give them this practice worksheet which has them matching rhyming pictures. For each of six images, they identify the corresponding image which has the same vowel sound (or...
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Connect the Rhymes
If your budding readers are new to rhyme, this is a visual way to give them practice. They examine familiar sets of objects, matching them to their rhyming partners by drawing a connecting line. Practice left to right skills by asking...
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Literacy Centers- Kindergarten
Students, after reading the Three Bears, talk about finding a task that is "just right" for them and work at Literacy Centers.
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Kids Can Make a Difference
What is a philanthropist? We can all be philanthropists! After assessing the needs of the school and listening to literature about how they can help others, primary learners develop a class project and maintain a journal of their...
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Alexander Used to Be Rich
Reading Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, launches this lesson appropriate for children who recognize coins and have been introduced to coin values. Using addition and subtraction skills, the class tracks Alexander’s spending...
Fun Music Company
Substitute Lesson Ideas For The Music Teacher
Have to sub for a music class on short notice? Or have some extra time to play with? Never fear! Help is here in the form of 20 sure-fire music activities and worksheets tested and submitted by music teachers. A great resource to add to...
Common Sense Media
Sending Email
Youngsters are introduced to the idea of communicating through e-mail, and gain important foundational knowledge for how to interact safely online.
Curated OER
Talk to Mom, Dad, Sister Worksheets
Help learners with special needs recognize the interests of their family members and build a foundation for conversation practice using worksheet activities and social prompts.
McGraw Hill
Classroom Rules Sample and Suggestion
Set up your class with a strong foundation by creating a clear set of class rules. This document provides suggestions for phrasing and distributing class rules as well as list of rules you might try out.
Danya International, Inc.
Life Journey through Autism: An Educator’s Guide to Asperger Syndrome
Whether this the first time you've had a learner with Asperger Syndrome in your class, or you have years of experience with learners on the autism spectrum, a booklet about the best ways to accommodate these kids in the classroom could...