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Are You My Mother Game
Invite your kindergarteners to explore sound and hearing. Using film canisters, or containers, filled with items from the story "Are You My Mother?" they will predict what the objects were from the story. Tip: you could create a...
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Are You My Mother Game
Students identify unknown sounds using their sense of hearing. They predict what objects were for the "Mother" game.
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A Chair For My Mother: comprehension skills
In this comprehension skills worksheet, learners read the book A Chair For My Mother and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including making inferences, cause and effect, and plot.
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Mother's Day Story Time Activities
Students examine all of the jobs a mother does. In this Mother's Day lesson, the teacher read the book Five Minutes' Peace, then students brainstorm a list of things their mother does. Students role play the job of a mom and how to relax.
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My Worst Best Sleepover Party
Students read the book The Best Worst Sleepover Party and discuss their feelings about bullying. In this bullying lesson, students discuss anxiety bullying, and what qualities a friend should have. Students design classroom expectations...
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Saving Money
After listening to the wonderful book, A Chair for my Mother, young mathematicians engage in an awesome lesson about coins and the value of saving money. The lesson is done in a classic style - everything is beautifully organized, and...
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Loving Literature
First graders, after having "Are You My Mother?" by P.D. Eastman read to them, participate in group discussions or independentally work to analyze a spreadsheet to identify essential elements in the story and graph their data. In...
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M&M Mountain
Young scholars practice recognizing the capital and lowercase M when practice writing with M&M's. They listen to and view the book, "Are You My Mother?," by P.D. Eastman with Random House, Inc. Each student interacts with a tongue...
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Mother's Day
In this holiday worksheet, students color in a bouquet of flowers and illustrate a poem about Mother's Day. The poem begins with, "You fill my days with rainbow light..."
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Mother's Day -- A Poem for My Mother 1
In this Mother's Day worksheet, learners read a poem about mothers, color a bouquet of flowers and sign the card to give to their mothers.
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ReQuest and Motor Imaging with My Side of the Mountain
Fifth graders read "My Side of the Mountain." They create a pantomime using vocabulary words from the story. Students create three questions about the reading. They discuss the passage they read and act out words to help them better...
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My Family
Students read a story entitled, "My Family." They predict what they expect to they family will be doing in the book. Students explore strategies for decoding unfamiliar words. They brainstorm things family members might teach each other....
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We Need More Than Money
Young scholars identify examples of private resources. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students read the book A Chair for My Mother and identify the private resources the characters used in the text. Young scholars name...
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Raindrops Keep Falling on my Art
Kids may be a little resistant to this rainy day idea, but it could produce some amazing art. They paint a watercolor picture of anything they like. When they are done, they take their paintings outside and let the rain work its magic!...
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A Poem for My Mother
In this holiday worksheet, students print out a Mother's Day poem and draw an original illustration below it. They sign the card on the elementary line below the illustration.
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Mother's Day
In this holiday worksheet, learners color in a bouquet of flowers and illustrate a poem about Mother's Day. The poem begins with, "You fill my days with rainbow lights..."
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Mother's Day
Students construct Mother's Day cards. In this holiday instructional activity, students use art supplies to create Mother's Day cards. Students may include an acrostic poem about their mother or a coupon book for their mother.
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Mama, Do You Love Me?
Young scholars complete a variety of activities related to the /m/ letter sound. They participate in a class "I Spy" game and identify objects in the room that contain the "m" sound, then as a class recite a tongue twister. Students...
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Pronouns: Personal Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns
Which do you use: that or this? Which or where? Me or I? Practice pronoun use with a series of activities that focus on personal and demonstrative pronouns.
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An Educators' Guide to Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Books can help teens understand complex global issues. A helpful educator's guide introduces readers to what it's like to be a refugee. Lesson components for the novel Shades of Gray include an anticipation guide and writing and...
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"Is" or "Are?"
In this is/are instructional activity, students select either the verb is or are to complete a set of 22 sentences. Students may click on a check answer question.
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Simple Strategies
Here is a fabulous lesson plan on problem solving strategies for your charges. In it, learners are presented with many excellent techniques they can use when faced with a multi-step math word problem. Some terrific blackline masters are...
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Just Me and My Mom
First graders create predictions for the story, Just Me and My Mom. For this language arts lesson, 1st graders read and discuss the story. Additionally, students draw pictures of the events of the story to show who, what, where, and...
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To, Too, and Two
The most pesky of homophones: to, too and two! Here's a worksheet to help you review and discuss what homophones are and how to correctly use them in sentences. Learners choose the correct word for 20 sentences. This can serve as an...