Books About the Color Blue The Blue Balloon by Mick Inkpen Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey The Blue Ribbon Puppy The Great Blue Grump by Jill Creighton Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? by Tana Hoban Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni Little Blue Ben by Phoebe Gilman Mrs….
Also see: Go Away Big Green Monster Activities Literature and Activities for the Color Green Books About the Color Green Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss Green Wilma by Tedd Arnold Pickle Things by Marc Brown Small Green Snake by Libba Moore Gray Franklin series books…
Books About the Color Yellow The Big Yellow Bus Curious George by H. A. and Margret Rey Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? by Tana Hoban Yellow Ball by Molly Bang Yellow Song Tune: “Jingle Bells” Y-E-L-L-O-W,…
Books About the Color Orange The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Pinkwater The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss Each Orange Had 8 Slices: A Counting Book by Paul Giganti Orange in My World by Janne Winne Orange Juice (Science Emergent Readers) by Betsey Chessen and Pamela Chanko Runaway Orange by Felicity Brooke and Jo Litchfield…
Literature and Activities for the Color White Featured Book: It Looked Like Spilt Milk It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw White Song Tune: “Jingle Bells” White, white, white. White, white, white. W-H-I-T-E. A nurse’s clothes. A cloud that blows. Shades of white to see. White Is the Color Tune: “Are You Sleeping?…
See Also: 100th Day of School Theme Resources @ A to Z Teacher Stuff There are so many excellent activities relating to the 100th day of school that I decided to include lessons featuring 100 throughout the week. One of our centers was stamping 100 stamps–ten stamps in each section of this paper. On day…
Explore how animals survive the winter through hands-on activities about hibernation, migration, and animals that stay active during cold weather. Hibernation Hibernation Day We transformed our classroom into caves and spent most of the morning participating in quiet activities, such as reading, inside our caves. Every so often, we checked the temperature on our thermometer…
Snow-Themed eBooks: Lesson Introduction We had a “mystery bag” and we had to guess what was in it. Hmmm, it must have been a snowman that melted because the girl has the carrot nose and the boy has a button. This was our introduction to learning about the winter season. He even found a piece…
Shape Poems Source unknown Cindy Circle I am Cindy Circle. Watch me turn Round and round and you will learn I’m not straight and I don’t bend. My outside edges never end. Sammy Square Sammy Square is my name. My four sides are just the same. Turn me around, I don’t care. I’m always the…
Dinosaur Books Patrick’s Dinosaurs by Carol Carrick What Ever Happened to Patrick’s Dinosaurs? by Carol Carrick What Ever Happened to the Dinosaurs? by Bernard Most If the Dinosaurs Came Back by Bernard Most Digging Up Dinosaurs by Aliki My Visit to the Dinosaurs by Aliki Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff Bones, Bones, Dinosaur…
Celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with these classroom art projects for kindergarten and elementary students. Create unique portraits and friendship wreaths while introducing children to the importance of kindness, fairness, and treating others with respect. Martin Luther King Jr. Portrait Art Students created their own portraits of Dr. Martin…
More Christmas Ideas: Arts/Crafts • Snacks/Recipes • Christmas Party Games • Gingerbread Theme • Polar Express Theme Literacy Rudolph! Rudolph! New Printable available for this activity: Printable Rudolph! Rudolph! Book In this book, Rudolph has a different colored nose on each page. I used a piece of velcro to make the book interactive by matching…
More Christmas Ideas: Math & Literacy Ideas • Christmas Party Games • Gingerbread Theme • Polar Express Theme Snacks/Recipes Reindeer Reindeer-cut bread into triangle shape and spread on peanut butter. Use pretzels for ears, chocolate covered raisins (or brown M&Ms) for eyes and a red M&M for a nose. Apple Santa Make an Apple…
Ideas for Christmas Party Games 1.MUSICAL SHARES Set up the chairs facing outward in a circle just like in Musical Chairs. Start the music and stop it. Everyone gets a seat just as usual and everyone takes a seat. For the next round, remove one chair, but NOBODY leaves. Everyone stays. Start the music again,…
Class Graphs This is our class graph of how many people are in our families. This graph depicts each student’s “place” in their family–the oldest child, the middle child , the youngest child, or the only child. Family Photos These are the family pictures we brought to share. Family Flags We made “family flags” by…