Contractions can be tricky, but they don't have to be! Through this lesson, students will gain hands-on experience putting words together to form common contractions.

Have your students experience the act of trading goods and services with bartering. In this activity, students will have the opportunity to make a deal, in order to get what they want. Better yet, make a deal without spending a cent!

This creative parts-of-speech lesson will have your students laughing out loud as they master making silly phrases using adjectives and nouns.

Practice reading new words with your students as they learn about long vowel word families while creating their own mini word book.

Get ready to see green! In this lesson, students get hands-on experience creating trees and then measuring to compare the trees.

The best way to learn about shapes? Make them! This lesson gets students using clay to make and learn about 3-D shapes.

Your students will be mesmerized with models after this engaging and hands on lesson that gets students up and moving as they explore their community!

Get ready to teach all about time with a fun game that has students match the time on analog and digital clocks. Use alone or with The Clock Struck What?

Use a short story that can be told entirely in idioms and students will get the picture! Students match story strip text to idioms in this interactive exercise that includes a matching worksheet assessment.

In this lesson, the class will review what it means to make an inference. After you model how to make an inference in a painting using your schema, your students will work in groups to analyze additional paintings to make more inferences.

Make addition with regrouping easy with this lesson plan that makes the task a visual learning experience.

Use storytelling to teach your first graders about sensory language in this interactive lesson.

Allow students to make sense of the world through hands-on activities and play. This movement-centered lesson will let your students explore parts of nature that make up our great Earth.

The recipe for friendship includes kindness, honesty, and understanding, among other things! In this lesson, students will discuss the recipe for friendship, make a perfect pot of tea, and reflect on how to make upset friends feel better.

In this lesson, students will use their schema and make inferences to find the owners of some mystery belongings!

In this lesson, students will learn how to get information from pictures in texts. They will describe pictures with a partner and see if their descriptions match the words in the text. This lesson can be used alone or as a support lesson.

Yummy fractions! This lesson will introduce fractions to your students and help them identify and make fractions of their own.

In this lesson, students use the visual of a blender to blend letters together to make smooth sounds they can identify independently.

Animals and spots are used to make multiplication interesting! In this lesson, students will practice multiplying one digit numbers.

Number facts are related, just like families! Help students learn all about fact families while they make fact family trees!

What sound does the letter E make? Your students will practice identifying pictures, reading, and making words with the short E sound in this fun-filled phonics lesson.

Make a math mystery! In this lesson, help your students understand the relationship between addition and subtraction and how a missing addend word problem is represented with a number sentence.

What life events have made an impact on your own life? This activity allows students to make a timeline of their own life events!

Make your students global citizens with this lesson that has them learn about the different cultures of the world.

Help your class' creativity blossom with this lesson that has them make unique animals out of leaves and write about them.

This lesson will make solving subtraction word problems fun for students. It includes music and interaction to grab your students' attention.

Let’s make subtraction real! In this lesson, students dive into three-digit subtraction by solving real-world word problems.

This lesson integrates phonemic awareness and phonics. Using a number of exciting activities, your students will learn about two consonants that come together to make a digraph.

Rhythm, reading, and writing make a perfect pair in poetry. Let your young writers practice these skills with the -at word family and common CVC words.

Money makes the world go 'round, but do your students know why money is important? In this lesson, students will learn the real world applications of money, as well as how to make a dollar with various coins.