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Counting Money Worksheet
In this math worksheet, students analyze photographs of paper bills and coins. Students count the money in each of the 10 problems and write the total on the line.
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D'Nealian Cursive Practice: Letter O
In this cursive practice learning exercise, learners write lower case letter o's on provided lines multiple times. Worksheet contains a link to additional activities.
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D'Nealian Cursive Practice: The Letter H
In this cursive practice learning exercise, students practice writing the lower case cursive letter h multiple times on provided lines. Worksheet includes a link to additional activities.
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Name Squares
Students examine the sounds the letters of their name make. They read Dr. Seuss' ABC Book and Mary Engelbreit's Put Em All Together. They practice writing the individual letters of their names in squares.
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The Art of Making Letters
Students explore letter formation through art. They analyze and discuss Jasper Johns letter paintings, and create the letter strokes using various colors and torn paper.
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Bueno Brothers' Bean Dip
Students play a game in which they see how many words they can form from a scoop of lima bean letters
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Graduation
Learners learn to recite poems and songs that they will recite and sing at their graduation for kindergarten. In this graduation lesson, students memorize and practice 5 poems and songs.
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Sounds Like Science- Bottle Organ
Students investigate the relationship between pitches and notes. In this musical pitches and notes instructional activity, students use different sized bottles, water, and sugar to demonstrate different sounds. Students create musical...
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Basic Ideas of Inheritance
Students enter personal information into a database. The information is used to reinforce the ideas of inheritance that is found in 1st Grade Science. Access to technology is essential for this lesson. Adding the use of a mirror for...
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Break the Code!
Seventh graders crack a code using binary numbers. In this technology lesson, 7th graders explain how binary codes can represent letters and numbers. They create their own code and exchange them with their classmates.
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Berry Basket Painting
Students use plastic berry baskets to make different print designs with paint.
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Cursive Writing Lessons
While cursive writing lessons may seem to be outdated, they are still an important part of the class curriculum.
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Sounds Like Science - Bottle Organ
Students see that by manipulating sound we can arrange a series of notes referred to as a musical scale. They explain the relationship between pitches and notes. They compare the sounds of different-sized bottles.
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Where Food Grows
Students identify how vegetable plants grow. In this plant lesson, students brainstorm different fruits and vegetables and read the book Growing Vegetable Soup. Students visit a garden and observe how vegetables grow.
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Shadow Pictures
Students discover the power of lights, shades, and shadows in this Art lesson intended for upper-elementary/middle-level Art classrooms. Older students may want to experiment by adding more than one silhouette to the Bristol board used...
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Farm Animals ABC Book
Learners create an ABC book. In this language arts lesson plan, students create a page for an ABC book authored an illustrated by the class.
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Spelling Worksheet
In this spelling worksheet, learners read sentences from the book Mystery in the Attic and choose which word is spelled incorrectly and then correct it. Students complete this for 5 sentences.
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Letter Writing Accuracy, Name Tags
Students build writing accuracy by making classroom name tags. In this writing accuracy lesson plan, students review the usage of writing uppercase letters Students also practice the usage of lowercase letters. Students recall the usage...