Patterns are everywhere. We can use patterns to help us deal with larger numbers

Are there patterns in nature that can be described by numbers? That is what we will find out here.

Recalling an act of kindness helps students practice narration skills. The teacher will read "Because Brian Hugged His Mother" and discuss the idea of "paying it forward" as a class. Then students will write and draw about a time when they were kind to someone. A printable sheet and pictures/videos of the students engaging in the lesson are provided.

Students will comparing and contrast parts of "Eat Your Peas, Louise" by Mike Venezia to "Little Pea" by Amy Krause Rosenthal.

This lesson focuses on the addition measurement of perimeter using real world examples.

A farmer needs a fence to keep the bunny out of his lettuce patch, but does he understand perimiter enough to buy the right amount?

Students love to talk about pets and in this lesson they can share how many pets they have.

Philosophical Chairs discussions allow students to make meaning of texts while developing, defending, and supporting their claims. This resource walks you through how to implement this type of discussion in your classroom. Included are steps, worksheets, organizers, videos, special education modifications, and tech tools.

Students will participate in a picture walk through the expository text "Seasons and Weather". The purpose of the picture walk is to prepare the students for reading the story and gives them practice in using picture clues to make meaning. It gives them a sense of the text and an idea of what they will be reading about.

The students will develop independent reading skills by using the illustrations. The teacher will read a selection of books and ask students to tell what they see in the book. Comments will lead to the conclusion that pictures tell us what was happening in the story. A video of the lesson in action is provided along with book suggestions.

The class will read the informational text "Together They Were Better". As the teacher reads the book aloud, she/he will use the illustrations from each page to give students clues as to the text on the page, helping them to see the relationship between the pictures and the words. The powerpoint of the book is included, as long as extension activities.

The students will be using discovery techniques to learn about stem and leaf plots.

Sequencing is an important skill for kindergarten students. This lesson uses nonfiction texts to allow students to make a real-life connection to the skill of sequencing and learn about the plant cycle at the same time! Included are bulletin board ideas, links to videos, a plant cycle poster, and printable worksheets.

Students use climate data to create a key, plot data points, and interpolate data.

This lesson uses the book Explorers of North America - A True Book by Brendan January to teach students how to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text and specific paragraphs within the text. Students are guided in how to create a timeline of historical events and they learn about text features. The lesson is done using print materials and a whiteboard with markers, but could be adapted to use with an interactive whiteboard. Worksheets, samples of student work, and videos of them discussing their work are provided.

This lesson uses the story Corduroy by Don Freeman to teach the main idea and supporting details of a story, as well as what we mean by the character's point of view. The lesson is done using print materials and a whiteboard with markers, but could easily be adapted to use with an interactive whiteboard. Worksheets, samples of student work, and videos of them discussing their work are provided.

In this lesson, students will use a double bubble map to compare and contrast two characters from the story "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?" by Bill Martin, Jr.