Preschool - 1st Grade Lesson Plans : Page 8

We all love to tell stories, but a good story is clearly organized. In this lesson students will learn how to use transition words and strong endings when writing narratives.

This wacky lesson combines math and reading practice with a Dr. Seuss classic and some fun online games.

Rhyming, moving, coloring and silliness...How can your class resist? Your students will love reading and moving with a poem, writing the letter S, and designing their own socks!

Get your students excited about art with this cute fingerprinting activity. It utilizes color to help kids learn about the different fingers on a hand.

In this lesson, your students will practice counting by putting the correct number of worms into an "apple." They will practice identifying quantity without having to count the numbers one by one.

In this lesson, students will fill their barns with farm animals by matching, identifying, and connecting the sounds of letters with their symbols.

Students will love using their own names as they learn about alphabetical order in this fun lesson!

Help students visualize the missing addend in an addition problem with this fun game. Use this scaffolded EL lesson alone or for more practice before teaching the Mystery Addends: Representing Word Problems lesson.

Use a well-loved fairy tale to inspire your kindergarten students to plan out their very own fairy tale stories.

Your students will get a kick out of using their emergent reading skills to partake in a scavenger hunt for opposites. They'll use pictures as clues to find objects that are opposites.

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

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.

Get your students ready for reading using this fun phonemic awareness lesson plan focused on the letter M!

This lesson helps kindergartners express their emotions about moving to first grade. Featuring The Night Before First Grade by Natasha Wing, it gives young students ample time to introspect, write, and draw.

How does your garden grow? In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension, vocabulary, and story sequencing. This hands-on art and literacy lesson is perfect for Earth Day, or any nature unit.

In this fun lesson, your class will love learning how to count on using hilarious read alouds as their guide!

Pop into place! This lessons builds your students' knowledge of numbers, their place value, and how to write them correctly.

Your ELs will love learning all about shapes in this fun hands-on lesson plan. Students will practice identifying shapes using everday objects. It can be used as a stand alone or support lesson plan for the Super Shapes lesson plan.

This flowery lesson has students filling in daisy-shaped graphic organizers with story details. Your young readers will love improving their comprehension skills with this lesson's creative activities.

What preschooler doesn't like dogs? This fun, hands-on lesson plan features dalmatians, fire safety, and matching numbers to quantities.

In this fun hands on lesson, students will be introduced to and get practice using positional language!

Reading simple words can be a lot of work for young learners, but by adding in a cooperative game, everyone wins in this fun filled lesson. Students will be filled with pride as they master how to isolate sounds.

This sweet, comprehensive lesson allows your students to count candy pieces and identify who has more, less, or an equal share. Young learners will have a great time while improving their math skills.

In this review focused math lesson, students will get a chance to practice and share their knowledge of patterns and numbers!

Encourage your students to explore the color wheel with this hands-on activity that has the primary colors transform in front of their eyes.

In this counting lesson plan, your ELs will get lots of practice identifying and writing numbers using a high interest nature focus!

Playing make-believe and telling stories are favorite childhood pastimes. Thus, no matter their reading level, students will love the opportunity to “read” to others and explore pictures as they take a walk through books.

It is important for students to stop and think as they read. This activity/lesson is a fun and quick way to see how students are thinking as they read.

Preschoolers love to sing! In this fun, hands-on, art inspired lesson plan, your preschool ELs will practice retelling a story while using a well-loved song. Can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the Caps For Sale lesson plan.

Cakes, candles, and concepts! Celebrate one-to-one correspondence with this number and quantity party.