Students explore animal lifestyles by illustrating images. In this pet care lesson, students discuss their own pets and the conditions animals need to survive in both nature or a home. Students draw snakes and complete an activity sheet...

Furry friends are a big part of kids' lives, and here, they can be immortalized in pictures and stories. Give your students a chance to draw and color their pets - real or pretend - and then write a short sentence about them.

Students explore the space needed for an animal to live in. In this pets lesson, students view pictures of animals and decide which one needs more space or less space to live. Students discuss animals environments and why certain spaces...

Learners listen to the story , Pet Show, and discuss the variety of animals that were in the show. The class recalls the animals and practice sounding out the names. Then they decide which animal should receive the best of show ribbon.

Students define the term "responsibility". As a class, they participate in voting on different ideas presented to them and develop a graph showing the results. They use the internet to virtually take care of the adopted pet of the class.

Students identify rhyming words and explore the usage of spatial words. For this Where Is The Pet lesson, students listen to a poem, repeat the rhymes within the poem, list various of additional rhyming words that can replace the words...

Students learn about and identify feelings of happiness, sadness and disappointment. In this feelings lesson, students have a show and tell time about their pets and discuss how it would feel if they lost their pet. Students watch a...

Students become pet "safety officers." In this pet safety lesson plan, students examine pet hazards as they complete activity worksheets and discuss household hazards to dogs.

Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /e/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and write the letter E. Students then listen to the book "Red Gets Fed," and identify the words in the story that...

Engage young mathematicians in practicing their counting skills while learning a little about the home environment of your students with this simple worksheet. By asking students to determine the number of windows, doors, rooms, people,...

Students discover the letters of the alphabet by participating in a game.  In this phonics lesson, students create books about themselves using their favorite toys and pets.  Students utilize a computer program called Mouse In...

Students explore statistics by conducting class demographic surveys. For this graph making lesson, students identify the family members of each classmate, pets they own, and favorite activities. Students organize their statistics and...

Learners explain that people with asthma can stay healthy most of the time if they do these things: stay away from things such as furry pets or cigarette smoke that make their asthma worse, go to the doctor and take medicine.

Students study the letter a in order to recognize it, say its /a/ sound, and write it. They pretend to be scared and say, "Aaaa" before reciting a tongue twister. Next, they practice writing the letter and listen to a read aloud of "A...

Students listen to a tongue twister emphasizing the short e sound. They practice writing the letter e and attaching different words with that sound to it. They listen to a book about a dog that enhances the letter e. They write a...

Winter, spring, summer, and fall! Every season is covered in a 14-page list of writing prompts. Included are story starters, reflection questions, poetry topics, and more.

To underscore the importance of practicing good listening skills class members engage in a series of activities that model poor listening skills. In pairs and then as a whole group, class members enact different, more positive techniques...

Is that a fact or an opinion? Learners explore the difference using this pocket chart activity during which partners read statement cards and determine whether they are facts or opinions.

Provide extra support with this collection of animal-themed lessons. Early readers gain proficiency in high frequency words are and he, practice blending short vowel sounds, and substitute initial and final phonemes while...

Expose young children to the wonderful works of author and illustrator Jan Brett using a few of her stories such as Armadillo Rodeo, The Mitten, or Daisy Comes Home through a unit study. 

Kids practice reading fluently with expression. They listen closely as their teacher reads a short paragraph, take note as she points out how she read each sentence, and then read along with her. They read to passage several times until...

Help young readers recognize the short vowel /a/ in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Learners associate the phoneme with its letter...

Students practice with the strategy that letters represent phonemes and spellings map out phonemes in spoken words. They work on the phoneme sounds of /a/ and e=/e/ in correspondences with reading. Each student also recites the tongue...

Learners explore dog dos and don'ts. In this personal safety lesson, students discover methods to use when meeting new dogs. Learners role play the provided scenarios and complete worksheets on the topic.