Primary School Lesson Plans

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 		Math and Science Chart Lesson Plan
Teachers can use If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to motivate kids to learn about different types of charts and graphs during an elementary math and science lesson.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Lesson
Teachers can use Laura Numeroff's book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to teach students creative writing by completing a primary story starter based on the book.
Teach Non-Standard Measurement to Kids
After reading If You Give a Pig a Pancake Kindergarten kids can learn about non-standard measurement using pigs and pancakes in the elementary math lesson.
If You Take a Mouse to the Movies Reading Lesson
Elementary teachers can use the book If You Take a Mouse to the Movies to teach students how to sequence a story by putting events in order on a popcorn string.
How to Teach Elementary Kids Compound Words
Elementary teachers can use the book If You Take a Mouse to the Movies to introduce compound words to their students and play a word match game during reading class.
Elementary Snowman Glyph Math Lesson Plan
Elementary teachers teach students to read a legend to create a snowman glyph during a math lesson plan about non-standard graphs and charts.
Language Experience Approach Reading Lesson Plan
Teachers can make popcorn with students after reading If You Take a Mouse to the Movies. The kids can write an LEA popcorn story to practice reading and writing.
Teach Elementary Students How to Sequence Events
Elementary students use pictures to learn how to sequence story events after reading If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff during this reading lesson plan.
If You Take a Mouse to School Lesson Plan
Teachers can read If You Take a Mouse to School with elementary kids to review the classroom schedule and teach students how to write their own story.
Ten Little Pumpkins Poem and Math Lesson
Kindergarten teachers can teach movement, memorization, addition and subtraction skills using the Ten Little Pumpkins Poem and Finger Play during circle time.
Halloween Creative Writing Lesson Plan
After reading the book John Pig's Halloween, elementary kids complete a Halloween themed creative writing project by following the steps of the writing process.
Elementary Repeated Reading Lesson
Primary school teachers can use Eve Bunting's The Pumpkin Fair during repeated reading lesson plan to help students increase fluency and comprehension skills.
Pumpkin Themed Science Lesson Plan
Kindergarten teachers use It's Pumpkin Time! by Zoe Hall to teach students how a seed grows into a pumpkin. The kids use the book to make a pumpkin mobile.
How Pumpkins Grow Lesson Plan
Elementary teachers teach kids how pumpkins grow during an integrated fall vegetable life cycle reading and science lesson plan.
Apple Shape Poem Primary Lesson Plan
Elementary teachers can teach students to write apple concrete or shape poems during a fall apple theme unit lesson plan.
How to Make Apple Pie Play Dough
Elementary teachers can make apple pie play dough with kids during an apple themed unit. Students can make play dough as part of a cooking or reading lesson plan.
Johnny Appleseed Elementary Lesson Plan
Primary teachers use The Story of Johnny Appleseed by Aliki to teach kids to sequence story events as part of an apple themed elementary unit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Recycling Lesson Plan For Elementary Kids
Use the book Why Should I Recycle? to teach students how to recycle at home and at school. Then have kids demonstrate their knowledge by making a recycling commercial.