This lesson helps kindergartners express their emotions about moving to first grade. Featuring The Night Before First Grade by Natasha Wing, it gives young students ample time to introspect, write, and draw.

In this feelings-focused lesson, ELs will practice identifying feelings and using feeling words as they reflect on the end of kindergarten and the beginning of first grade. It can be used on its own or as support to the lesson The Night Before First Grade.

In this lesson, your students will use illustrations as they read a grade level story to a partner. They will engage their fine motor skills as they complete a simple cut and paste matching activity.

In this fun blending lesson, students will get a chance to read and spell grade level words. This can be used as a stand-alone lesson or support for the Cooking Up Blends lesson plan.

Preschoolers will be head over heels about animals and their offspring in this lesson! Teach them animal names and the sounds they make.

Featuring a series of hands on activities and worksheets, this ESL-friendly lesson will give your young writer a comprehensive overview of common punctuation marks.

Deep relaxation in school? Yes, it is possible! Through this process you will guide students to consciously focus on relaxing various body parts, leading to a visualization to help relax their full body mindfully.

In this fun literacy lesson, your ELs will get to review or learn all about the parts of a book! This can be a stand alone or support lesson for the lesson What We Like About Stories.

In this lesson, students will identify what they already know about a topic, what they need to know, and how they will achieve their learning goal.

Explore the world of words! In this lesson, play an amazing game to introduce action words to your students.

Give your students a head start in math with this lesson that teaches them how to add single-digit numbers together using manipulatives.

What do like to groove to? Bebop or hip-hop? In this Black History Month lesson plan, students will listen to and learn about two music genres heavily influenced by African-Americans. Then they will write about which genre they prefer.

What are the tools of mindfulness and building community that support greater ease and connection? In this lesson, students will reflect on the mindfulness and social emotional learning tools they have learned through song and sculpting.

Preschool students love to observe their environment. Invite them to discover how seeds grow and develop into plants with this class project-based lesson.

In this fun lesson plan, students will get to practice using sight words while writing notes to their peers. This is a great introductory lesson as a stand alone or a support lesson for the lesson plan A Sight Word Celebration.

Use this lesson plan to introduce, preview, or review the concept of sharing an opinion using a hilarious read aloud text! This can be used as a standalone lesson or with the lesson The Little Red Hen Story Patterns.

Let your students practice their letter recognition skills with this hands-on activity that teaches them the difference between upper and lower case letter.

This is a great lesson plan to introduce your EL students to the use of illustrations in a story. This can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson What's in a Picture?

In this caterpillar-focused lesson plan, students will practice identifying words that begin with the letter C, while learning about the metamorphosis of a butterfly. This can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for your ELs.

With some help from The Little Red Hen, young readers will have fun enhancing their reading skills while learning about the value of hard work.

Your students will learn all about the water cycle with a simple video, lively song and cut and paste activity!

Use Mem Fox's exciting read aloud to introduce or review the concept of rhyming word pairs with your ELs. This lesson can be used as a stand alone or support for the lesson plan Rhyming with Sam I Am.

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.

Your students will go bananas for this activity that has them read a fun story about monkeys and create their own whimsical monkeys while learning about size sequencing and color words.

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.

Use this fun animal-themed lesson plan to teach your ELs all about beginning letter sounds. This can be used as a stand-alone or support lesson for the The First Letter Is lesson plan.

Students will go on a name scavenger hunt as they explore the classroom word wall.

Use this lesson plan to introduce or review beginning literacy concepts with your ELs. This can be used as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the lesson Learning to Read from Left to Right.

In this fun puzzle themed lesson plan, ELs will get a chance to practice identifying and reading compound words. This can be used as a stand alone or support lesson.

This lesson integrates phonemic awareness and phonics. Using a number of exciting activities, your students will learn about two consonants that come together to make a digraph.