Students explore the book, Mrs. Wishy Washy. They listen to the story, participate in a picture walk, identify the patterns of repeated words, role-play the motions, and retell the story using props.

Students develop a comparison worksheet using one non fiction book and one fiction book they have read to be put into a class scrapbook. In their comparison students must have title, author, point of view, setting, characters, and other...

Students study facts about spiders using a number of literary forms, including stories, poems, and songs. They work with consonant sounds by matching pictures with the beginning consonant sounds. They design art projects that emphasize...

Learners complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. They listen to a list of words and identify the words containing the short /a/ sound, and write the letter A. Students listen to the book "Cat Nap" and identify...

Students identify the /h/ sound in this lesson. They say a tongue twister with words emphasizing the /h/ sound. They then listen to the book "Horton Hatches an Egg" and identify the words in the story with the /h/ sound. As an...

Students answer a series of questions about the different sounds that the letter I makes. They observe a picture about a girl and the letter I. They practice a tongue twister with the different sounds of I. They practice writing the...

Students locate something in the classroom that is the same color that is written on the card they were given and go stand by it. They share what they found and place their card on a color posted next to the correct color. Finally,...

Students are read the book "Hands". They discuss things they are able to do with their hands. They create a cutout of their hands and write one thing they can do on the hand. They share what they wrote with the class.

Students listen to the story Brother Eagle, Sister Sky and observe Native American clothing worn by the characters in the book. Students create a vest out of a pre-cut brown paper bag and decorate with Native American symbols.

Pupils discover facts about ancient Egypt and find information and pictures of structures in Egypt. They write a story using as many hieroglyphic symbols as possible. Stories are made into a display on bulletin board.

Second graders brainstorm how they care about certain people in their lives. They discuss how they take care of those people or pets. They draw a picture of the people who care about them.

First graders use the internet to research a famous American. Using the information they collect, they write a paragraph noting their accomplishments. They find a picture of the person they are researching or dress up like them to...

Students discuss differences between wild and domestic animals. They list animals on chart paper, and then cut out pictures from magazines to create large collage showing wild and domestic animals.

Students identify /b/ in spoken words and recognize the letter symbol b in written words. They say a tongue twister which contains words with /b/. They then listen the the book "The Butter Battle Book" by Dr. Suess and identify the...

Second graders investigate how to buy food by going to the store. They use pictures of farming and different types of food to engage in the lesson. It includes key vocabulary that puppets use while telling a story to the students. They...

Fifth graders explore the water cycle. Students walk in a circle as a song plays. When the song stops, 5th graders answer questions about the picture on which they are standing. In groups, students draw pictures of the water cycle.

In this English worksheet, 3rd graders describe, in English, a picture of children playing in the park. Students complete writing sentences using words in the word banks.

Fifth graders read Sing Down The Moon independently and keep a journal where they write their reactions to the book. Students access websites imbedded in this plan and research a variety of other Indian tribes.

First graders compare and contrast different seeds before planting them. They assess the basic needs to plants and conduct experiments of deprivation of those needs. They write stories and draw pictures of plants which are bound into a...

Students explore and are able to explain how to read an old street map of downtown Omaha. Students review the names of schools in OPS as well as country names in Nebraska. They find out the names of graves in Prospect Hill Cemetery....

Fourth graders identify the characteristics of a good paragraph and find those characteristics in a good paragraph from the books, "One Day in the Woods," by Jean Craighead George and "Why Do Leaves Change Color," by Betsy Maestro.

Students examine the use of KidPix software before making a slide show that shows their ideas about spring. They listen to books about seasonal change. Next, they draw a spring picture, write a sentence and their name on their KidPix...

Third graders identify important places in Bowling Green and list facts about those places. They write complete, varied sentences using capitals and punctuation correctly and also use the Writing Process. As a final project, a...

Students draw a picture of their favorite tree from memory, and then add detail as they learn more about leaf characteristics of Virginia trees. They will use their writing skills to nominate one or more of their favorite trees to the...