Symbols of USA–The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty Objective: Identify symbols used to depict Americans’ shared values, principles and beliefs, and explain their meaning. To understand the concept of liberty. Preparation: Find drawings or pictures of The Statue of Liberty from books, magazines or old calendars. Have crayons, pencils or markers and paper for the children to draw with. [...]

Maps-City, State, Country

Maps Objective: Children will learn what maps are, what they city/state/country is, and how maps are used. Preparation: Find maps of your city, state, country and the world from books, magazines or old calendars. crayons or colored pencils Print out map book from the attached link map book for the blog. Find a map of the city where [...]

Lesson plan for Money–Penny

Money—Penny Objective:  Learn about pennies and how they are alike and different to other coins. Preparations: ¨    Find pictures and/or books about Abraham Lincoln and the Lincoln Memorial. ¨    Trace 4 to 5 in. circles on brown paper. ¨    Have pencils and scissors. ¨    Have coins and some paper money.  (pennies, nickels, quarters, dimes) ¨    [...]

Reptiles

Reptiles Objective: Children will learn the characteristics of reptiles. Preparation: Find drawings or pictures of reptiles and other types of animals from books, magazines or old calendars. Make word cards for the words, reptiles, Animals, Yes, and No. Have glitter glue, and colored pencils or crayons. Print out IGUANA coloring sheet from the link iguana. [...]