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The Senses

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore activities involving the five senses. They describe objects by touch and participate in craft corners using sand, rice, and blocks. They taste various foods and use their sight to find missing objects. They practice...
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Farm Animals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in fluency activities related to farm animals. They discuss counting sheep and view clips from the video "Babe." They create a short dialogue between Babe and Fly. They role play as animals providing the sounds...
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Parts of the Body

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify parts of their body. They recognize the job each part of the body has. They act out motions to the song "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes". They sequence parts of a story using flashcards.
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A Christmas Lesson

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review vocabulary for colors, clothes and face words. They practice matching the written form of a word with the spoken form of a word. They write the word that matches a picture flashcard.
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The Seasons

For Teachers K - 1st
Students label posters with the four seasons of the year. They draw or use magazine pictures that demonstrate the clothing worn for each season. They brainstorm a list of holidays that occur within each season.
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Colors: What is Pink?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study colors. They listen to poems, identify their favorite colors, and describe objects that are pink, red, and orange. They collect pictures from magazines of objects that are their favorite color and create a class dictionary.
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My School

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study their school and school-related topics. They review the days of the week, telling time, and school symbols and objects. They create a timetable of their subjects, practice telling time, and discuss the important people...
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Sound Stretching

For Teachers K
In this basic vowel and consonant blending lesson, young learners are shown how to "blend" the sounds of different letters together in order to make a word. Simple words such as, "sun," "moon," and, "ant," are used in a whole-class setting.
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Shaping Up!

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergartners are introduced to basic shapes. Learners spend 45 minutes a day in geometry centers carrying out the activities outlined in this ambitious plan. There are games, hands-on activities, interactive websites, art projects,...
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Dancing With the Indians

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils read Dancing With the Indians by Angela Shelf Medearis. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of Native American festivals and traditions. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing,...
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Places where I see the flag

For Teachers K
Students talk about flags from different countries and how during the olympics they can see flags from many different countries.
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Reaching the Clouds for Equality

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners listen to Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. They create their own cloud and write a dream they have for the world inside. They write journal entries on how to treat others fairly.
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Reinforcing Alphabet Names/Sounds

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars reinforce knowledge of the alphabet essential to beginning reading by pulling random letters out of a hat and identifying the letter's sound.
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Scootin', Sounds & Sorting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students work together while they use various locomotor skills to practice beginning sounds of words and the letters of the alphabet. They walk, run, skip, gallop (or any locomotor skill that the teacher requires be used) alongside the...
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Sight Words

For Students K
In this everyday words worksheet, students look over, cut out 44 sight words and then use the words as flashcards to build mastery in kindergarten.
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Desktop Spelling

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a spelling drill. In this spelling lesson, students correctly spell the word that is called out and remain standing if they spell the word correctly.
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Sesame Street Letter Recognition

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Pupils study the letters of the alphabet, explore different shapes, rhyme, and listen to the different sounds of the alphabet to help them sound out words and begin elementary level reading.
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D says DUH! Duh?

For Teachers K - 1st
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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Web-Based Practice

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore technology by participating in a word structure activity. In this grammar lesson plan, students utilize the Writing Center computer software to practice keyboarding while identifying word formations in class. Students...
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Between the Lions: Exploring Short-Vowel Sounds

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review the short sounds of a, e, i, o, and u previously discussed in class. They read and be able to identify words that have short-vowel sounds and become familiar with the basic navigational features of a website.
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Label Tables

For Teachers K - 1st
Students match objects to cards with the names of the objects spelled on them. Students play bingo with the new vocabulary words.
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Vocabulary Challenge

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a vocabulary challenge in which they are to name objects with the chosen letter.
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Using Personal Pronouns 1

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, learners practice the correct use of the personal pronouns "I" or "me" by completing 15 sentences.
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Flashcards - Elementary Level

For Students Pre-K - K
In this alphabet flashcards worksheet, students identify the letter for each flashcard. Students recognize 13 letters using the flashcards.