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Students will use their hands to mold clay into shapes, then divide those shapes into equal and unequal quarters.

Who wouldn't want to split a birthday cake with their best friend? In this lesson, students will practice dividing circles and rectangles into halves as they develop an understanding of equal shares.

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

Everyone loves pizza! Introduce the concept of fractions as equal shares in a familiar context. Use alone or with Halves as Equal Shares.

Ready, set, fractions! In this hands-on lesson, your students will familiarize themselves with common fractions using concrete materials to practice splitting items into halves, thirds, and quarters.

Do your students lack color and details in illustrations? Are you tired of gazing at a blank piece of white paper? Well... no more! Use the following lesson to turn your students into detailed illustrators.

In this lesson, your students will be taken into wonderland by reading familiar stories such as The Ugly Duckling. Your students will identify characters, setting, and main events in these stories.

The ability to recall information builds through repetition. Give students the chance to build their counting memory (and potentially learn a few new numbers) in this festive fall counting lesson.

Don't put students in a sticky situation by not having them practice their subtraction facts! This lesson will give them plenty of practice, both in a group setting and individually to help them succeed later on.

Aid your students in becoming the best citizens they can be with this lesson that teaches students how to be, and what makes, a good citizen.

This lesson challenges kindergartners to find objects in their lives to measure and compare. Get ready to hear measurement concepts come to life!

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.

This early reading lesson involves identifying pictures and making words with the short 'a' sound. Your kids will learn words with the initial, medial, and final short 'a' sound while having fun!

Your students will have fun identifying pictures, reading, and grouping words with the initial and medial short 'u' sound.

Stories can change a lot depending on the point of view they are told from. In this lesson, students explore point of view by comparing and contrasting two versions of "The Three Little Pigs."

In this lesson, your students will break down composite figures to identify 2-D shapes that make them. Students will put together 2-D shapes to create a composite shape.

Use hands-on activities involving play dough to show your students the layers of the Earth!

Through fun activities, your students will get to repeatedly see, hear, and say letters. This can be adapted and used to teach or review all the letters in the alphabet.

What do the letters A, E, I, O, and U have in common? They're all featured in this engaging reading lesson. Give your young learners a chance to play a version of Red Light, Green Light that doubles as a vowel review.

Soft or loud, sweet or bitter, happy or sad? How do your senses help you describe things around you? In this lesson, your students will use words that relate to their five senses.

Fishing for new ways to review letters? Let your preschoolers cast a line to catch an uppercase fish and return it to the corresponding lowercase fishbowl.

Enhance your child's predictive abilities with this creative reading lesson. By imitating the styles of Eric Carle's Do You Want to Be My Friend?, students will create and share their own mini guessing games.

Adding and subtracting doesn't need to be boring! Learning to add and subtract can be done with a shoelace or while playing hopscotch.

Students will gain fluency with adding multiples of ten in this hands-on lesson that builds number sense.

With some help from The Little Red Hen, young readers will have fun enhancing their reading skills while learning about the value of hard work.

It's time to dig into some nonfiction books! In this lesson, students will practice identifying the main topic of nonfiction texts. This lesson can be used alone or with the How to Find the Main Idea lesson plan.

With some help from Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, your kids will go on a fun scavenger hunt and discover different sounds.

F is for fire safety! In this lesson plan, introduce the letter F and teach about fire safety at the same time. This engaging lesson is filled with movement and a lot of learning fun!

Every storyteller needs to understand beginning, middle, and end. The same goes for young readers. Help your students grasp the concept of story sections with this hands-on sequencing lesson.

Double, double toil and trouble! Use two dice to roll up to 100 with one-digit sumations. In this lesson, students will play a place value game where they race to get to 100 by converting ones to tens.