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Pronoun Shift
Having problems with shifty pronouns? The 10 prompts on this worksheet challenge young grammarians to recognize pronoun shifts and correct those sentences that contain errors.
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What Is the Matter with Water?
Second graders observe matter in all 3 states : liquid, solid and gas, in an ice cream soda. In teams, they are given ice and teams compete to be the first to melt their ice. Winner gets the ice cream soda. They draw examples of 3 states...
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A Waste Not Picture Frame
Students reuse old puzzles with missing pieces by painting the remaining pieces and using them to make a picture frame. They embellish the frame with other recycled items.
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Life on a Farm
Students take a field trip to a farm or observe pictures of farms and animals in the classroom. They paint a mural of a farm setting with animals. They practice phonetic skills with farm stories and songs. They explain how milk becomes...
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Poems: Humourous Verses
First grade is a great time to build strong reading skills. Here are three short rhyming poems or common nursery rhymes that are intended to help boost reading fluency. Because most children know these rhymes, they will have an easier...
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Ordinals
Students examine uses for ordinal numbers in calendars, and an ordinal chart. They order ice cream cone cut outs from 1st to 20th and complete a worksheet. (not given)
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Happy Birthday
Students engage in a creative project of making a birthday card for the school principal. The cards are to be presented to the principal as part of a celebration in the classroom with cake and ice cream. Students brainstorm in order to...
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Lights, Camera, and Action!
These activities center around acting out a play to help create fluent readers who use expression and emotion. As readers work through the play the first time, they also practice decoding strategies. In small groups of four, they then...
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Connectors Exercise: Transitional Words
Transitional words and phrases make writing smooth and ease oral fluency. This resource gives English learners a chance to practice using common connecting words and phrases like above all, firstly (sic), instead, etc. Answers are...
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Popsicle Stick Kids
Students use popsicle sticks to make different characters. They use fabric to make the clothes and even place eyes to make them seem more real. They add jewelry and any other fashion item to complete the character.
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What Is a Business?
Students discover how to maintain successful businesses as they assume the roles of owners and drivers of their own ice cream trucks.
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Personal Clay Box
Seventh graders discover how to assemble and finish a lidded box-like form from slabs of clay between soft and leather hard. They gain an appreciation for ceramic art.
Wesleyan College
Adjectives and Adverbs
In this grammar instructional activity, students choose either "good" or "well" in twelve sentences to make each one grammatically correct. Students check their answers when completed.
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Doing the Right Thing
In this doing the right thing worksheet, students read a list of steps about how to decide on the right thing and complete a set of discussion questions based on a referenced video program. Suggestions for related activities are also given.
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Why We Save
Students discover how to save money. In this financial planning lesson, students read the story Spend or Save? and discuss ways to save money. Students choose a character from the story and write about a financial decision they had to make.
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Shopping List
In this food instructional activity, learners update a menu to make the food choices healthier and write a shopping list in order to get these items. Students complete 2 activities.
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Health Education: Opinions
Third graders consider the opinions of others. In this personal health lesson plan, 3rd graders demonstrate how to effectively and respectfully express opinions that differ from others as they create and follow rules for productive...
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ESL Picture/Location Matching Worksheet
In this ESL places/locations matching instructional activity, students look at small clip art pictures of places in a town. They match the pictures with the words that name them, such as a school, an ice cream shop, and a supermarket.
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Agriculture and Me
Second graders categorize and organize agricultural products. In this agriculture lesson, 2nd graders complete classroom activities that challenge them to make connections between agricultural products and their own lives.
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Food for Class Party
In this interpreting a bar graph and math word problems worksheet, 2nd graders read the information about choices of food for a class party and answer various multiple choice questions. Students solve 25 problems.
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Introduce vocabulary: Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse (Lionni)
Provide access to new vocabulary words (envy and mysteriously) in context as emerging readers listen to Leo Lionni's Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse. Explain these terms before reading the story aloud and help kids utilize context clues...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
American Stories: Challenge Activities (Theme 2)
For those class members who have mastered the basic concepts and need extra challenges, here's a packet of activities sure to engage them in stories about American immigration and exploration. Kids may design a dramatic presentation...
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"A Slice of the Cone"
Here is a set of lessons that explore conics in a number of different ways. Starting with modeling how a conic is produced by the way a plane cuts the cone, to solving complex word problems, algebra learners progress through a series of...
Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program
Pardon Me, Your Modifier is Dangling
Lost! (or misplaced) a modifier. Last seen dangling at the end of a sentence! Reward offered! To underscore the humor, class members are each given a sample sentence to illustrate (A woman passed by, leading a Springer Spaniel, in a long...