Download Category: Mini Lessons with Activity

Skills: Social Studies, Chinese New Year Holidays, Math

Description: Get your students celebrating diversity by learning about the Chinese New Year and Zodiac Animals. Students will listen to stories about the Chinese New Year and Zodiac Animals (list of suggested books included) and then play a game racing the 12 zodiac animals to the finish line! (Chinese New Year is February 12, 2021)

Skills: Listening & Speaking, Writing

Description: Just like adults, our students need to set goals to strive for to be successful. Here's a great activity for when you return to school that will help your students set SMART Goals for themselves to obtain in 2018. (Grades K-5)

Skills: Listening & Speaking, Parts of Speech, Writing, Word Choice

Description: Follow this activity to get your students circulating through the room as they identify adjectives, all the while practicing with Listening & Speaking skills.

Skills: Holidays, Writing, Reading, Art

Description: Kids love to play in the snow in the winter! Why not bring the snow inside with this winter themed craft and writing activity? Use your favorite snow or winter themed picture book to kick off this activity and get students excited. This activity gives you the directions needed to make your own paint that will dry puffy and resemble snow! (Grades K-5)

Skills: science, writing, reading

Description: Want to teach your students how polar animals stay warm? This activity will help your students learn how animals that swim in the ocean (such as penguins, seals, whales, sea lions, elephant seals, and walruses) stay warm. Read a book about one or more of these animals to start the conversation about how these animals stay warm in extreme cold conditions. (For Grades K-5)