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Imagine That! Analyzing Imagery
Poems by O. Henry, Marion Dane Bauer, Monty Roberts, and Langston Hughes provide the text for a study of symbolism, hyperbole, and imagery. Employing the “think-pair-share” strategy learners generate definitions of these terms and locate...
National Gallery of Canada
Transformation
Create colorful cool or warm butterflies with simple materials. Class members draw their designs, spray the marker to diffuse the colors, and attach pipe cleaners to form the shape of a butterfly with antennae. Individuals must be able...
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Bug's Eye View
Investigate the life of bugs and how they interact with the environment in this integrated science and language arts instructional activity. Young scientists construct mini environments in cages in order to make observations. This data...
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Spring into Poetry
How many different types of poetry are there? Let me count them; list poems, haiku, and makes-me-think poems are only a few. Learners create their own poems accompanied by artistic projects such as haiku poems written on kites.
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Use A or An?
Young readers observe a labeled object and circle the article a or an that proceed the word, write the articles before illustrated words, and choose the correct word in parenthesis to complete sentences. Everyone writes 29 answers.
Kelly's Kindergarten
May Daily Activities
Five weeks of daily activities for the month of May! With a new activity for each day of the month, your youngsters will utilize a variety of skills and practice everything from sight words and spelling to counting by twos or coloring...
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Compound Words
Enhance your lesson on compound words with this colorful PowerPoint. This presentation defines a compound word, lists various examples, as well as includes a class activity and assignment. Note: During the reading activity, have students...
Montgomery County Public Schools
Summer Journal Ideas
Twenty prompts, fifteen starters, and ten situations. What more could you ask for from a list of journal ideas?
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Learners read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of caterpillars. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library...
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Very Good Facts About Very Good Books
Students identify the characteristics of fiction and non-fiction texts. In this genre study lesson plan, students read the books A Butterfly Alphabet Book and I Wish I Were a Butterfly. Students develop a graphic organizer to compare and...
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Spring Activities
For this Spring worksheet, students read a poem about a butterfly. Students color an illustration and underline rhyming words. Students also write the rhyming words and compose their own Spring poem.
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Valentine Centers
In these Valentines related center worksheets, 1st graders will read and follow directions, complete a sequence of events, compare using a Venn diagram, and make a Valentine Butterfly.
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English Skills Assignment 6.204
In this English skills worksheet, students complete 60 exercises in grammar, spelling and language. Included on this page are: onomatopoeia, word endings, root words, word chess, missing vowels and consonants, parts of speech, spelling,...
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Past Simple English Exercises
In this past simple verb tense online learning exercise, students unscramble verbs and place the past simple form in each of 20 sentences. They match 8 sentences to the clip art pictures and write the sentence number in the box. They...
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Cloze Activity: Mini Worlds
For this butterflies, moths, and caterpillars cloze procedure worksheet, students review a brief selection that is missing 10 words and then attempt to fill in each blank with a word they think the author might have used. A word bank is...
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Fantasy Allegory of Air
Students analyze the painting Jan Brueghel and design their own book. In this art and book lesson, students discuss the elements of fantasy from the painting and create their own book. Students illustrate the book and create a painting...
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Flutter Farm
Sixth graders complete activities to examine butterflies and their habitats. In this butterfly habitat lesson, 6th graders research butterflies and their habitats to help them investigate how to make a butterfly garden. Students complete...
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The Beautiful Butterfly: Reading Comprehension
In this comprehension learning exercise, students read a short selection about the butterfly, then answer 5 multiple choice questions. Answers provided.
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Printing Practice: Butterfly
In this printing practice worksheet, students practice tracing and writing the word butterfly, then color a picture. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
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All About Bugs
Students read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and practice the days of the week. In groups, they create a puppet show, design cards of the "days of the week," draw their favorite part of the story, create a visual representation of each...
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Spring Word and Picture Matching
For this matching worksheet, students match words and pictures related to Spring: flowers, rainbow, butterfly, ladybug, groundhog, caterpillar.
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Spring Words - Fill in the Vowels
In this Spring words worksheet, students fill in the missing vowels for the following Spring-related words:tulips, ladybug, rainbow, flowers, chick, rabbit, butterfly, robin.
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Building Color Words
In this color words activity, students learn the color words pink, green, orange, and brown by writing the color words from the word bubble into the corresponding blocks. Students then color the pictures of the turtle, pig, squirrel, and...
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The Color Orange
In this color recognition worksheet, students color pictures of things that can be orange. Pictures are: cat, carrot, butterfly, pumpkin and an apple.