In this lesson, students will define and discuss the word "determination" through song and play.

Students will practice generating ideas for future stories while also working on their word spacing skills!

In this lesson, students will create a set of instructions for navigating a life-size maze.

What kinds of homes do we live in? In this lesson, students will explore and describe different types of homes. By the end of this lesson, students will have created a visual of their own homes and write about them!

A fun spin on a classic game! This sight word game will help your students with their reading fluency and reinforce foundational reading skills. Students should be fairly fluent in reading Pre-Primer Dolch sight words prior to the lesson.

Get ready to teach students strategies for understanding new words! Students will practice strategies to read new words in nonfiction books. This lesson can be used alone or with the New Words, New Ideas: Reading Nonfiction lesson plan.

Who doesn’t love learning about animals? Engage students in research as they write informational books about animals.

As students re-read nonfiction texts, have them classify visual features and record learnings from the captions.

Use Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" to inspire a fun watercolor resist painting with your students!

Have your students get energized while they learn about animal locomotion and move around like various animals!

When students take time to see the best in themselves, it supports them individually, socially, and academically. In this lesson, students will take time to highlight their successes and learn how to send loving wishes to themselves.

Your students will use primary and their own mixed secondary colors to paint a beautiful still life.

Help your students get comfortable with reading with this lesson that makes reading sight words into a game!

Your students will love using real life experiences while developing their writing skills in this fun lesson.

Students sketch base-ten blocks in this lesson that builds both number sense and fluency adding to 20!

Students will go wild for this hands-on habitat lesson. Who can help the animals find their homes?

Students will gain fluency with adding multiples of ten in this hands-on lesson that builds number sense.

This engaging lesson plan provides students with an opportunity to learn all about America's prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief.

Students will love using their own names as they learn about alphabetical order in this fun lesson!

Your students will deepen their understanding and build their vocabulary through reading nonfiction texts and identifying unknown words.

Help show your students' growth with a time capsule. Use the lesson plan Classroom Time Capsule to have students prepare any academic work they want to include in the capsule. They will also add a completed worksheet about their goals for 2020.

Owls hear so well that they can hunt in the dark. Have your students try on their owl ears! In this lesson, students open up their ears to all the sounds around them, close and far away, and go on a sound hunt.

We all have our own home of feelings inside, like a shell that we can tuck into when needed. This we learn from turtles, and now your students can too. This lesson helps students access that place inside full of feelings, emotions, and thoughts.

This lesson plan teaches students about Frida Kahlo and her legacy as an activist and artist who continues to inspire people all over the world. Students will listen to a story about Frida Kahlo and reflect on what it means to be an artist.

Students will be jumping with joy after this lesson that helps them practice their subtraction skills with physical activity.

It’s easy as 1, 2, 3! In this lesson, students will explore the long vowels A, I, and O and learn how a silent E turns short vowels into long vowels. Students will use technology, music, and body movement to learn all about silent E.

Students will use their hands to mold clay into shapes, then divide those shapes into equal and unequal quarters.

Your students will have fun identifying pictures, reading, and grouping words with the initial and medial short 'u' sound.

Extend your students' understanding of data by asking them to consider real-world problems about data collection and graphs.

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