Students will write an informative sentence in response to listening to the story "Does A Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?". Included in this lesson are videos of mother and baby animals, pictures of the lesson in action, and a video of student oral presentations.

Sorting items help students develop language skills as they describe attributes and qualities to determine which category is the best fit for an item. The teacher will introduce the definitions of wild and domestic by reading the book Growing Up Wild. After a discussion, the students will sort through animals and decide whether it is wild or domestic. Supporting materials, an assessment checklist, and examples of student work are included.

The big idea of this lesson is the understanding that addition can be represented as parts of a whole and that we can use addition sentences to represent those parts.

Kindergarteners love to identify shapes in their environment. In order effectively do that, they must be able to recognize different shapes by their specific attributes. In this lesson kindergartners learn about the attributes of a cube.

In this lesson, students will engage in a second guided reading of "Don't Need Friends" by Carolyn Crimi. Students will compare and contrast elements within the story and elements between two stories.

In this lesson, students will compare and contrast characters within the story "Don't Need Friends" by Carolyn Crimi.

In this lesson, students compare two texts written by the same author, Leo Lionni. Then they will write an opinion piece on which story is their favorite and why.

Students will complete a double bubble thinking map by sorting facts that go with Washington, Lincoln or both. Also included in this plan is an art project, worksheets, and video of the lesson in action. Great activity to use after reading about Washington and Lincoln!

Students can think about doubles facts as world situations to help commit them to memory.

Can you double an odd number? Can you cut it in half? Patterns in doubles and halves help to answer these questions.

What an impact delivery can make! Students will compare the written and spoken version of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Included are handouts, examples of student work, and a video of the speech.

Favorite Dr. Seuss characters are something that students can collect data on, graph and interpret.

Climbing a mountain, you reach the greatest height at the top. What about a math mountain? The graphic can help students solve for a missing number.

Make learning relevant as students express their opinion about the school dress code. Students will write an opinion letter to our Superintendent sharing their opinion of the dress code. The guided practice is about the teacher dress code, but students write their independent work about the student dress code. Partner work is incorporated into this lesson.

Students will be given poems by Dylan Thomas and Langston Hughes and will determine the differing structure, style, and content of each poem. Included are detailed plans, copies of the poems, and examples of student work.

Many kindergarteners come to school with rote counting skills, but they often do not understand that the numbers they can recite actually represent quantities. This lesson helps to make that connection.

This summative assessment provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills with elapsed time.

Measuring time can be challenging for students because it isn't concrete. Using a number line helps students to understand time as a quantity.

This lesson connects calculating elapsed time in a real world setting, using actual train schedules.