Caterpillars and the hard C sound come together in this colorful lesson. With help from the ever-popular The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, students will learn about metamorphosis while developing their phonics skills.

Critical thinking demands making inferences and having proof. Use this lesson plan with your students to teach how to infer author’s perspective and cite supporting quotes from text.

Show and prove! Use this lesson plan and say farewell to fiction reading logs of yore, as your students (literally) draw connections across theme, cause, and effect.

Carefully find the adverbs in sentences that give more information about the verb! Use this lesson to teach your students how to pick out an adverb and understand what information it gives about the verb.

In this fun lesson all about sharing ideas, students will get an overview of partnership rules, and time to practice working with a partner. This can be used as a stand alone or pre-lesson for the Me and My Partner lesson plan.

Do your students need instruction in how to find and determine the meaning of figurative language? In this lesson, students will explore the exaggerations found in hyperbole and elements of idioms.

Your students will get right to the point with this small group activity! Your students will use large push pins to punch out shapes, all while improving fine motor skills and creating class books to read when the activity is finished.

Writing is a hugely important life skill. Before your kids begin expressing their ideas, however, they'll need to work on penmanship. This simple lesson helps students with the basics of writing the letters of the alphabet.

This nifty lesson helps kinesthetic learners reinforce their knowledge of the commutative property. Students will love the challenge of matching equations with their fact families.

While doing an ocean theme or learning about the letter O, your students will learn about a slippery sea creature and utilize their fine motor skills. They will conduct an experiment to demonstrate a real life phenomenon.

Let students stretch their problem solving skills in this lesson that teaches them how to solve problems where one-digit numbers are multiplied by multiples of 10.

Get those bodies moving and make some patterns. This lesson uses fine and gross motor skills to teach your students about AB patterns.

Using this lesson plan, your students will synthesize literary information by reimagining storyline outcomes. Substituting characters from their favorite texts and reimagining the effects will excite and bring your class new insights!

In this lesson, students will learn about the history of their town while improving their writing and research skills. No matter how big or small the town, there’s always something fun to uncover in this assignment!

Do you students know their place? Place values, that is. With activities covering the range of thousandths to ten millions, this comprehensive math lesson is sure to please young mathematicians.

This lesson plan is a great introduction to recognizing and forming plural nouns for your kindergarten ELs. This can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the More Than One Nouns lesson plan.

Teach your students about symmetry with real life objects! Have them draw lines of symmetry for various shapes, food items, and objects.

Using base ten blocks, cards, and clear cups, your students will practice the concept of borrowing for subtraction problems in this lesson.

Teamwork makes the dream work! In this lesson, students will learn how to work effectively in groups.

Sorting and categorizing isn’t just for cleaning! In this fun-filled activity, students will learn how to distinguish fiction from nonfiction.

Categorize words by their ending sounds using a fun-filled football theme. Your students will complete various word sorts and write down words to emphasize the principles of rhyming.

Students will begin to calculate volume of different rectangular prisms using base ten cubes and then transition to using the formula V = L x W x H. Students will then practice using the legendary fifth grade activity, Cootie Catchers.

Earth Day is a time for raising awareness and appreciation for our environment. It’s also a time for using correct punctuation! With this lesson, your students will use correct punctuation, like commas, quotation marks, and apostrophes.