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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities and Projects

Kindergarten and first grade kids can practice counting, learn initials and match uppercase and lowercase letters during these primary Chicka Chicka Boom Boom lessons. more...

Kindergarten 1st Day of School Activity

Kindergarten teachers can use a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom themed bulletin board and welcome postcards to help kids get excited about the first day of Kindergarten. more...

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Elementary Lesson Plan

Kindergarten kids can learn how to use a picture walk to make predictions and put letters into ABC order using the children's picture book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. more...

Character Point of View Reading Lesson Plan

Elementary teachers can use short poems to help students identify a character's point of view in a story and increase their comprehension skills during reading lessons. more...

Fun and Easy Caterpillar Crafts for Primary Kids

Kindergarten kids can make caterpillar crafts and projects during caterpillar and butterfly lessons as part of an elementary bug themed unit. more...

Kindergarten Caterpillar and Butterfly Songs

Teachers can use caterpillar and butterfly themed finger play songs during a Kindergarten thematic unit to teach kids about the caterpillar life cycle. more...

Use Poems to Teach Elementary Kids Language Arts

Elementary teachers and parents can use the funny poems in "What's The Weather Inside?" by Karma Wilson to teach kids poetry rhyme patterns, homophones and connotation. more...

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Fourth of July Elementary School Science Project

By: Kathy Foust

Here comes the Fourth of July and the fireworks. Why not celebrate this year with a rocket that doesn't use fire at all? more...

Go Charts to Improve Reading Comprehension

By: Debbie DeSpirt

Retelling of a story is one of the functions of the Go Chart graphic organizer. A Go Chart allows students to organize the beginning, middle, and end of a story. more...

Elementary School History Role Playing Project

By: Jason O'Hare

A living wax museum is a fun, creative way to get students doing history instead of just reading about it. Getting one up and running takes only a few steps. more...

Teaching Supply and Demand with the Trading Game

By: Jason O'Hare

This interactive role-playing game teaches basic economic concepts to upper elementary students. It's easy to prepare and lots of fun to play. more...

Make Storyteller Necklaces with Primary Students

By: Feature Writer Susan Caplan

While on a walk, students collect beads in the colors of things they see and would like to include in their tale. They create a written or oral story back in class. more...

Teaching Basic Economics with the Trading Game

By: Jason O'Hare

In a trading game, elementary students learn about economics by becoming merchants or traders who buy and sell commodities in a classroom marketplace. more...

Writing List Poems with Primary Students

By: Feature Writer Susan Caplan

Repetition of words and phrases helps to organize students' thoughts as they write list poems using similes and metaphors. more...

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