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Hundreds Day Activities
This packet has original activities for that all-important hundreds day. Students can count stars, fingers and tallies to one hundred. In addition, there are three original songs put to familiar tunes to sing. **The background is "sliding" on the ESL site, but the download should be okay.**
Level: elementary
Age: 5-9
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 44
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Valentine Vocabulary Challenges
Two for one! Here are two Valentines Day vocabulary challenges. One is a double puzzle, and the other is a word search. The third page has the answer keys. They were created using this free site:
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker
Level: elementary
Age: 9-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Valentines: Traditional Rhymes and Fingerplays
These pages have been gathered through the years from various sources. I have adapted them for teaching use by adding graphics and retyping and clarifying them.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-11
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 23
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Valentines Day Matchmaker Game
The Valentine game from the site below is a wonderful icebreaker for adult gatherings as well as for kids:
http://kidsparties.about.com/od/partygamesandactivities/ht/GamesMatchmakers.htm ...
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 23
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Christmas Carol Words Search & Key - Legal Paper
Key words from numerous Christmas carols are utilized in this challenging page. I normally allow children to work with a partner on this. Words can be forward, backward, horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. It is fun to hear kids singing the carols as they hunt for lyric words. A colorful answer key is included. *****Legal Sized*****
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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The Anger Box
If you have ever had a young student with a hot temper, this strategy can help. Students learn to hand the teacher an "I Am Angry" card when there is a problem. I have added clip art images of angry people to help youngsters who can�t read or/and ESL students. It is highly successful.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-8
Type: Choose
Downloads: 13
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Valentines: Words for Valentines Season
The simple worksheet has short sentences pairs -- one with the correct word choice, and one with an error. Students will need to spot the differences in the sentences. Then, they need to select the best choice. A variation would be to put the sentences on flash cards for group or classroom applications.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-11
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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ValenTIME
This worksheet is a simple practice for telling time using both numerals and words. A good challenge in the lesson can be to discuss the difference in the word "valentine" and this worksheet title "ValenTIME."
Level: elementary
Age: 6-11
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Music: Interest Inventory for Grades K-2
Students will complete the worksheet together, learning to record their music preferences in both picture and written form. Definitely for early elementry.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-8
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Thanksgiving: Familiar Songs and Readings
This is a quick collection of Thanksgiving lyrics set to familiar songs and rhythmic readings. The images can be enlarged for classroom activities.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-9
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 5
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The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Part One
This PowerPoint is an update of an earlier one to take advantage of the increased memory allowed on ESL. In Part One, the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. from birth through The March on Washington in August 28, 1963, is chronicalled. Citations are included.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Downloads: 46
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The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Part Two
This PowerPoint is an update of an earlier one to take advantage of the increased memory allowed on ESL. (In Part One, the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. from birth through The March on Washington in August 28, 1963, is chronicalled.) Part Two covers King�s life from the days following the March ...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Downloads: 41
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Christmas: "Jingle Bells" PowerPoint
This presentation allows students to view photographs of one-horse, open sleighs as the song "Jingle Bells" is sung. Many kids have sung the song so long that they may not be thinking about the lyrics and what they mean. Many from our ESL population are from Africa where they never see snow. The ...
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Downloads: 36
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Santa Rhymes
Kids can enjoy an original poem about Santa that leaves off the rhyme at the end of each stanza. Use a mouse click to advance to the next slide to reveal the answer. My animations come from The Graphics Factory, to which I subscribe.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-11
Downloads: 34
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Easter Song: Little Bunny Foo Foo
In this original PowerPoint based on a familiar fun song, students may read along and sing. The graphics make the process fun, and students get to hear what an octave jump sounds like. From kindergarten to fifth grade, my students all begged to sing it again! (This is an update version.)
Level: elementary
Age: 5-11
Downloads: 25
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Music Notation Basics
This original presentation helps youngsters understand the basics of reading music notation. It reinforces the music alphabet (A-G) as well as notes on the staff. My students love it!
Level: elementary
Age: 5-11
Downloads: 9
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Deep in the Heart of Texas
This presentation showcases the popular song that touts the great state of Texas in the United States of America. Many versions of the lyrics have evolved through the years. Students can view images that refer to the song lyrics. By the way, a "dogie" is a young calf, not a dog.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Downloads: 7
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Valentines: "Let Me Call You Sweetheart"
The chorus of the old standard, "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" can be sung as children follow along. Cross-curricular applications include visual arts for song cover, identifying the publishing date and computing how long ago the song was written, compound words (sweetheart), rules for capitalization...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-11
Downloads: 6
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Christmas - Sacred Christmas Music Correlation
I tell the Christmas story from the Bible every year at the beginning when I teach Christmas music. That way, students understand what the lyrics are referring to. This lesson is very, very successful every year. Older students enjoy it as much as the younger ones.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Downloads: 3
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Christmas song: "Children Go Where I Send Thee"
This spiritual carol has been sung by many in many different ways. This 87 page PowerPoint will enable students to follow along as the "add-on" song progresses.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Downloads: 3
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