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Chinese New Year
Students investigate the celebration of Chinese New Year. In this Chinese New Year lesson, students discuss their favorite holiday before listening to a read aloud about Chinese New Year. They make red envelopes that are filled with play...
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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Made Easy
Middle and high schoolers check their writing for pronoun-antecedent agreement. After identifying the pronouns in their writing, they then complete a table with the pronouns and corresponding antecedents, making revisions as necessary.
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Article Adjectives: A/An
First graders read the nouns and noun phrases. They fill in the space with the article adjective "a" or "an." Everyone complete 10 examples.
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Writing: Laying and Covering the Foundation
Your middle schoolers can become stronger writers with a lesson covering the basics. They compose effective thesis statements and introductions, discuss different ways to capture a reader's attention, and compare a poorly written...
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Jingle Bells
Second graders identify people of different ages, cultural backgrounds, traditions, and careers. They explain how they contribute to the community. Students sing a song to display the different Christmas traditions that are celebrated in...
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Recycled Lid Ornament
Students create a keepsake ornament out of recycled plastic lids and other household items.
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High-Tech Heaven?
Young scholars read and discuss, "Post-Christmas Comes a Geek's Gizmo-Rama" by David Pogue. They consider how technologies they use impact their lives.
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Fun in the Sun
Students freeze colored water. In this art lesson, students take the blocks of ice out of the freezer, put the blocks into a small pool and watch the ice melt.
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Hide the Acorns
Students search for acorns. In this art lesson students imagine they are squirrels finding and storing acorns. The students dig through a water table filled with sand or soil looking for acorns that have been buried.
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Santa's Scrambled Syllables
In this scrambled syllables worksheet, students unscramble a set of 2 Christmas words, matching parts of the words shown in 2 of "Santa's bag."
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Preposition Mistakes Exercise
In this preposition mistakes worksheet, students find the mistakes in a set of 20 sentences, then practice writing some of their own. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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A Day of Hanukkah
You can teach your students about Hanukkah using these fun activities.
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Printing Practice: Happy Holidays
In this printing practice worksheet, students practice tracing and writing the phrase "Happy Holidays," then color a picture of a Christmas tree. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
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Picture Yourself in an Ornament
Students create an ornament with their photo inside of it. To create the personal memento, students observe demonstrations and follow directions. Students experience making a craft and giving the memento to a family member.
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Third Grade Editing Worksheet- Sentences
In this grammar and writing worksheet, student rewrite each of 10 sentences while making corrections. They insert upper case letters, correct use of plurals, and correct verb usages.
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Prepositions of Time
In this prepositions of time online activity, learners insert the correct preposition of time in 55 examples. They use drop down menus to choose between in, on, or at. They use drop down menus to insert the proper preposition in 56...
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Ghosts of Holidays Past
Students write in their journals to analyze the use of nostalgia. After reading an article, they identify aspects that are universal for holidays. They describe and examine their own memories of a specific holiday and interview someone...
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Holiday Card Grammar
Students examine variety of holiday cards to recognize and write basic parts of speech. They then write new greetings for the greeting cards.
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Waking Up, Stepping Out
Young scholars focus on a rich and colorful description of a culture unfamiliar to most of them. They compare the similarities and differences they find between Nepali culture and their own and determine our similarities as people can...
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Cereal Box Book Report Project
Students create a book report using a cereal box. In this book report lesson plan, students cover the outer parts of a cereal box representing a book they red. They create an original cover on one side, and use the other sides to report...
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Philanthropy in Your Community
Students brainstorm how an action to benefit others is a type of philanthropy. They
identify the commonwealth approach to philanthropy,
plan and carry out a philanthropic action in their community and
reflect how their action qualifies...
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Too Many Tamales
Young scholars listen to the story "Too Many Tamales" by Gary Soto. Students use the internet to find recipes from around the world. They print out a recipe and put their name on it. The recipes are then combined into a class recipe book.
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A Separate Peace: Chapter 10 Reading and Study Guide
In this comprehension check worksheet, young scholars define 3 vocabulary words, define 2 literary terms, and respond to 10 short answer questions pertaining to chapter 10 of A Separate Peace by John Knowles in order to help them better...
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Poetry: "Seven Types of Shadow"
Students examine the way ghosts are portrayed in films and literature. For this poetry lesson, students listen to the first five stanzas of the poem "Seven Types of Shadow" read by U A Fanthorpe on The Poetry Archive website and discuss...