Flag day Activity Materials 34- by 42-inch pocket chart 9 white sentence strips or 3 each of red (or pink), white, and blue flag and star templates (pages 79–80) red and blue markers card stock scissors an American flag (optional) Flag day Activity Setting Up Write each line of the poem on a separate sentence … Read more
This charming series has been specifically designed for babies. A great introduction to books through well-known nursery rhymes and interactive text. Singing songs and rhymes is the perfect way to bond with your baby and share quality time. It also aids language development by introducing them to the natural sounds and patterns of speech. Combining … Read more
Lambeosaurus Connect the dots from 0-50 Lambeosaurus(lam-bee-oh-sor-uhss)Named after: Canadian paleontologist Lawrence Morris LambeLength: 50 feet Time: Late Cretaceous, 72 million years agoDiet: Plants
Located in the southeast corner of the state on the Mississippi River, New Madrid was named for Madrid, Spain. In the early part of the nineteenth century it was a prosperous community and considered an important landing between the Ohio River and Natchez, Mississippi. The people living in New Madrid were well aware of the … Read more
This is page 16 from GGA523 Quest for America.
Today jukeboxes can still be found in some bars, but they have almost vanished from restaurants. They are considered to be collector’s items and many a proud owner displays his prominently in the den or recreation room. Have you ever played a song on a jukebox? Where was it? What song did you? This is … Read more
From the Authors Change can be unsettling, but sometimes it is change that leads us to open new doors and make new connections. We were faced with this opportunity when restructuring occurred in our district. Through new classroom assignments, we found ourselves teaching in the same building for the first time. We began the year … Read more
Each of the 15 mini-books encourages children to use active learning and hands-on experiences as they construct knowledge about the world. A lesson for each mini-book provides step-by-step support for guiding children in conducting their research and analyzing data, to create books that they can revisit again and again. Children not only learn about specific … Read more
When the British sailed into the harbor, they were met by a boat waving the white flag of truce. On this boat was Francis Scott Key, a Washington lawyer who’d been sent to negotiate a prisoner exchange. Key got an American doctor released, but their truce ship was not allowed to return until the fighting … Read more
Four of the original colonies—Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia—were from the south. Tobacco and cotton became important crops for these colonies. Farmers cleared more and more land in an effort to grow crops. The large farms were called plantations. People from Africa were shipped in to work in the fields. The plantation owners … Read more
100 Pennies, Will They Float? Printable Chart
Research has repeatedly shown that direct phonics instruction is an important part of literacy learning, and that word family instruction is a highly valuable way to teach sound-spelling relationships. An astounding number of the words children will encounter in their reading fall into common word families, and within these families, words that use the same … Read more
Knowing that many medicines are made in laboratories, you might wonder why plants from the rain forest are important. There are many reasons. For one, like quinine, some drugs that come from plants work better than the same drug made in a laboratory. Second, not all drugs that come from the rain forest have yet … Read more
GETTING THE MOST FROM EACH SONG Play the song on the audio CD for your child to enjoy. Sing the song as you and your child track the words. Encourage your child to join in on the repetitive parts of the song. Have your child clap the rhythm of the song as you sing it … Read more
Before the child begins writing, it might be helpful to have the child trace each word several times with their finger. To extend the life of this book, lay a piece of white paper over the page and let the child trace each word To involve the child into discussion, talk about the words they … Read more
Directions:To prepare for this activity, find a story that you like and type it into a file on the computer. Then delete selected words, choosing a variety of various parts of speech. Replace each word with a blank line, under which you type the name of the part of speech of the word you removed, … Read more
What This Book Won’t DoAlthough this book is crammed with useful ideas and information about developing literacy, it will not show you how to teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons before she is 3. It will not give you evidence to claim that your child is the best and brightest at the … Read more
The Buzz on Names – Getting acquainted gameColor and cut out a copy of the bee pattern on page 7 and laminate it for durability. Gather youngsters in a circle and give a child the bee. As youngsters pass the bee around the circle, prompt them to chant the rhyme shown. When the rhyme ends, … Read more
When the war ended, with the signing of a treaty in 1848, it was decided that the border between Mexico and Texas would be the Rio Grande river. But there was something else in this treaty—called the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo—that proved of greater significance. Mexico sold California and New Mexico to the United States … Read more
Objectives: • Reassembling eight spoonerisms—Students will rearrange the initial sounds of the words so that the sentences make sense. The sentences shouldn’t pose too much of a challenge to your students, but if anyone needs a little help, you can illustrate the idea by transposing the initial sounds of his or her name. For example, … Read more
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