Parts of a Flowering Plant: Lesson for Grades 2-4
Spring is in the air! That means plants will soon be sprouting up everywhere we look. This is a great time of year to teach about plants and their …
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Do All Plants Have the Same Parts? Lesson for K - 2nd Grade
Plants are everywhere! They’re in the store, your front yard, your backyard, and some of you may even have some plants on your kitchen table. Why not …
Continue ReadingHow Parts Make up a Whole: Lesson for Kindergarten through 2nd Grade
Teachers do a wonderful job providing students with hands-on manipulatives that promote learning. The most common ones include cubes, blocks, and …
Continue ReadingInvestigating Parts of Plants & How They Make up a Whole: Kindergarten or Grade School Lesson
Plants are everywhere! But, do children really understand a plant’s structure? Do they understand that each part is vital to the plant? Often …
Continue ReadingWhat If A Part Was Missing? Kindergarten Lesson Plan on How Plant Parts Make up a Whole
Parts, Parts, Parts! The world is made up of parts. As a matter of fact, the earth is made up of water and land. The students will explore the concept …
Continue ReadingWhat Makes a Plant a Plant? Lesson for Kindergarten through 2nd Grade
Children are very creative. Even when they don’t really know the answer to a question, most of the time they will use their imagination to try and …
Continue ReadingHelping Your Child Deal with Testing Anxiety & Standardized Tests
The time has come for your child to be tested on all the information they have learned and studied throughout the year. Is your child anxious (or are …
Continue ReadingWhere Is It? A Kindergarten Lesson Plan on Directional Words
Are my keys here or over there? Could they be under the pillow or in my pocket? Directional prepositions are used a great deal in our everyday …
Continue ReadingTelling Time to the Hour: A Kindergarten Lesson Plan
You will have time to relax if you use this lesson plan on telling time by the hour with your young students. Included are activities and two …
Continue ReadingWho Wants to be First? Kindergarten Lesson on Ordinal Numbers
That’s the fourth time you’ve asked me! The player is on third base. Ordinal numbers are part of our vocabulary more than we realize. Your students …
Continue ReadingWhy Rules are Important: A Kindergarten Safety Lesson
Don’t run in the hallway! Be quiet in the library! Stop at the stop sign! Why do we have all of these rules and laws? Even kindergarten students will …
Continue ReadingMore or Less? A Math Lesson for Kindergarten Students
How many times have you heard a child say, “No fair! He has more than I do.” Now is the time to build on this already known concept. Included in this …
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