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Elsie Marley
The nursery rhyme "Elsie Marley" is used to help childrent determine the meaning of the verses. They act out the rhyme, chant the rhyme as a class and complete a cloze activity. Afterward, they add the rhyme to their "My Very Own Nursery...
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Letter and Rhyme a Day
There are so many fun activities for alphabet learners! Use nursery rhymes, letter hunts, and the name sort to have learners interact with the letter of the day. Your learners will never get bored with the variety of activities provided...
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Nursery Rhyme Mania
Young scholars become familiar with many different nursery rhymes. They use nursery rhymes for a variety of creative activities including writing, singing, poetry and acting.
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Poems: Itsy Bitsy Spider
Act out the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" rhyme with youngsters. Learners observe visual instructions before completing the corresponding actions, then draw the spider into a scene. Finally, they write down rhyming words that have the ai...
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Play with Words: Rhymes & Verse
Students listen to poems and rhymes, clap out syllables, and sing along with familiar tunes. They use puppets and crafts to help recall and retell favorite poems, and craft their own poems.
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Humpty Dumpty Sequencing
Students complete activities for the nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty.' For this nursery rhyme lesson, students recite the rhyme and act it out. Students discuss the rhyme and make up their own. Students bring and discuss hard boiled eggs,...
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The New and Improved Humpty Dumpty
Students help Humpty Dumpty. In this nursery rhyme instructional activity, students listen to the nursery rhyme and then use their problem solving skills to rebuild broken eggs. Students create new Humpty Dumptys from unbreakable materials.
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Three Blind Mice Puppets
In these nursery rhymes worksheets, students cut out the images and paste them on sticks to create puppets for the rhyme of 'Three Blind Mice.' Students act out the rhyme.
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The Enormous "Kinder" Garden
Students discover books about planting enormous things. In this reading lesson plan, students experience several books centered around growing enormous plants. Cross curricular activities are included
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Rhymes
Students complete rhyming word activities. In this rhyming words lesson, students play an online game for rhyming words and recite a well known nursery rhyme as a class. Students pick out words from the poem that rhyme and brainstorm...
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How Characters Get What They Want
Sixth graders analyze the primary force that drives a character's actions in a character analysis lesson. In this character analysis lesson, 6th graders analyze how characters present their actions and participate in a group activity...
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears Pantomime
Students investigate acting and performing arts by portraying a story in class. For this pantomiming lesson, students read the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and discuss the characters amongst themselves. Students portray the 4...
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Mary Had a Little Lamb
Students examine the story Mary Had a Little Lamb. In this language arts lesson, students discuss the story and read companion poems. Students identify the rhyming words in the story. Students discuss lambs and sheep.
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Crimes from Mother Goose
Students use Nursery rhymes in a discussion of crimes and criminals in order to study how criminal law has developed and changed to maintain an organized society. They decide on the identity of criminals, the crime, and the name of the...
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Farm Frolics
Students learn about farms through literature and center activities. In this farming lesson plan, students read about farming, sing songs about it, sort materials, and do more activities related to farming.
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Spiders! Scary or Nice?
Pupils participate in a variety of cross-curriculur activities in order to explore spiders.
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The "Real" Fairy Tales
Students write a Fairy Tale from the point of view of the "bad guy".
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Shared Reading: A Lesson Plan to Introduce Patriotism in the Classroom
Students learn why we say the Pledge of Allegiance through shared reading. In this shared reading lesson plan, students are shown the Pledge of Allegiance in 3 different forms. While they are exploring the pledge, the teacher explains...
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Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Living and Non Living [Pdf]
Students explore the differences between living and nonliving things through the lens of the nursery rhyme, "Hey Diddle Diddle." After bringing the characters to life, the students discuss the concepts of living and nonliving and act out...