Applying the measurement of elapsed time to a person's daily schedule helps students understand the reason for understanding time.

At the end of this lesson, students will demonstrate the use of commas, clarifying questions, and a friendly letter format by sending an email. Email is part of student's lives, and it is part of the digital landscape they will need to learn to navigate. This lesson walks through the basics of writing an email, using commas in the greeting and closing, and proper email etiquette.

Students will sequence story events with the teacher and read an emergent reader in a guided setting. The chosen book, "Pilgrims and Wampanoag: Together They Were Better", has high use of sight words and high levels of picture support for the text, the kids can have a fair amount of success with this reader. Printables, pictures, and a video of a student reading the story are included in this lesson.

Choose from a variety of lessons that meet the Kindergarten standard of engaging in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Anyone who has attempted one of those "claw machine" games at local restaurants or retailers knows how impossible it seems to win. This activity will get students using the engineering design process to develop a claw that will actually work.

Left to right progression is an important focus skill for kindergarteners; we really need to help our students get used to working from left to right every time! This lesson is something easy you can do to remind your students to start at the left and end at the right, whether they're in small groups, whole group or at their seats! A video explanation and helpful links are provided.

Students develop their understanding of multiplication by grouping objects into equal groups to model the factors and products.

Comparing the number of objects in two groups, using one-to one-correspondence, is a foundational skill that students will build on as they begin to compare numbers. This lesson will allow students to practice this skill in small groups. Pictures and videos of the lesson in action are included.

How can you represent the area of a diagram using numerical expressions? Students apply their knowledge of area and order of operations to match area diagrams with numerical expressions.

How can you represent the area of a diagram using numerical expressions? Students connect their knowledge of area and equivalent expressions to the commutative and distributive properties for day 2 of this investigation.

Students will be able to estimate the lengths of objects by mentally partitioning the lengths into inches. A video, worksheets, and a detailed lesson plan are included.

Students will be able to estimate the lengths of objects by mentally partitioning the lengths into inches.

In this lesson, students will be able to gather information from provided resources to answer a question. Using the book "Owls", the teacher will read the book while asking guiding questions. After the book, the students will have to opportunity to examine a real owl pellet and classify items they find inside. A link to a company where owl pellets can be purchased is provided. Pictures and videos of this lesson in action are included.

Who is telling the story? Students analyze whose eyes the reader is looking through. Students will learn that there is more to point of view than knowing who is telling the story. This lesson will teach them about the nuances of the narrator's point of view. Included are video links, printable worksheets, a graphic organizer, and a rubric for assessment.

Students use place value vocabulary to write excellent mathematical explanations about why a comparison statement is true or false.

Set up a culture of listening and understanding in your classroom with this meta cognitive lesson on what our brains do when we listen.

What is pi, anyway? Students explore the relationship between circumference and diameter by measuring a variety of circles and use it to derive the formula for circumference.