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Corn Cob Painting
Students explore creativity and imagination. In this lesson about art, students experiment with different tools used for creating prints. Students use ears of corn with kernels and without kernels, tempera paint, paper plates for the...
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THE LITTLE RED HEN - A TALE OF COOPERATION
Students explore how much pleasure reading can bring, explain the concept of "story sequence", "re-tell" a story through art, and read other folktales.
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Healthy Lifestyles
Learners navigate MS Publisher to create a publication about a healthy lifestyle. In this healthy lifestyle lesson, students participate in activities to learn to eat right, to be fit and to create a publication based on what they...
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The Symmetry of Snowflakes
Celebrating the change of season with science and language arts activities.
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Fire Safety and Fire Prevention Week
Students explore fire safety and prevention through various activities led by the teacher. in this safety lesson, students role play how to "stop, drop, and roll" if their clothes catch on fire. Students sing songs, recite poems, and...
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Spring Activities
In this Spring worksheet, learners read a poem about a furry caterpillar. Students color the picture and underline the rhyming words. Learners also write the rhyming words and compose their own caterpillar poem.
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Street Safety
Young scholars explore fire safety rules through a variety of teacher-led activities. In this safety lesson, students choose appropriate felt board pieces as they listen to My Car by Byron Barton. Seat belt and car seat safety, as well...
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Spring Activities
In this Spring activity, 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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Vocabulary Building Activity: Short O and U
In this vocabulary words with a short o and u worksheet, 2nd graders write down six vocabulary words as they are called out, unscramble six words and use each word in a complete sentence with at least five words in each sentence.
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Other Activities -- Rainbow Fish
Students are read "The Rainbow Fish" and discuss characteristics of being a good friend. They create their own fish to show the qualities they discussed. They receive one scale to add to the fish.
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The Little Red Hen
Students analyze a classic children's story by discussing it with their peers. For this reading comprehension lesson, students read The Little Red Hen, and discuss ways the hen takes care of his responsibilities. Students...
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Dyed Flower Garden
Young scholars create a dyed flower garden. In this art lesson plan, students read the book Tiny Seed and cut flowers out of tissue paper to create a paper flower garden.
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Alliteration Fun with Spiders
Students practice using vocabulary words to write alliterations. In this language arts lesson, students collaborate with classmates to create ideas for fun alliterations as they create their own using a children's word processing...
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Tree of Life Mandala Print
Students create a Tree of Life. In this visual art lesson, students explore mandalas. Students investigate the concepts of balance and symmetry while designing their own unique Tree of Life.
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Fool Proof Printmaking
Students explore historical technology by participating in a printing activity. In this printing block lesson, students identify how mass papers were printed in the past by using blocks repeatedly. Students create their own printing...
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Mad Libs
Students complete language arts activities such as radio broadcasting, writing letters, write directions, rhyming sentences, and a lot more. In this language arts lesson plan, students also complete mad libs.
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Make a Word _et
In this Language Arts activity, learners read and form four words ending in -et. Students also write a sentence using one of the words.
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Humpty Dumpty
In this language arts activity, students read a classic Mother Goose nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. Students color the picture.
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Coffee Filter Eggs
Students make coffee filter eggs. In this art activity, students cut coffee filters into egg shapes. Food coloring is added to water and students drop the colors onto the eggs using a eyedropper. Students allow the filters to dry and...
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Vermont Alphabet Activity
In this Vermont worksheet, students explore the state of Vermont and practice their ABC skills. Students are given ten words relating to Vermont which they are to write out in alphabetical order.
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The King of the Birds vocabulary
Science and language skills come together in The King of the Birds. After reading, discuss the names and types of birds in the story and write given sentences to portray the difference between comparative and superlative adjectives....
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May I Take Your Order?
If you're a pest, come and get a tasty meal here! Scholars work collaboratively to construct a mini restaurant out of a shoe box and create a menu that feeds a pest their favorite food.
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Caps for Sale
Bring to life a class reading of the children's book Caps for Sale with this printable set of manipulatives. Color, laminate, and cut out these pictures of the peddler, his caps, the tree, and the monkeys, using them act out the...
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KWHL: The Holocaust
If your class is gearing up to read MAUS by Art Spiegelman, consider having them complete this KWHL chart as a prereading activity. They record what they know, what they want to learn, how they will find the information, and what they...