Create Your Own Haiku
A haiku is a three-line format that originated in Japan. Its three lines include five, seven, and five syllables, respectively, for a total of seventeen syllables. Haikus usually describe the natural world. In this activity, students will learn to create their own haikus.
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Haiku Assignment
A haiku is a three-line format that originated in Japan. Its three lines include five, seven, and five syllables, respectively, for a total of seventeen syllables. Haikus usually describe the natural world. In this activity, students will learn about the structure of haikus.
zCentral Quick Launch Code: A210
Say Your Name
What do the words acorn, mail, table, and apes all have in common? They couldn’t be more different, right? You are correct that the objects they represent are very different, but these words all share the same letter, the letter A. The letter A is a long vowel, which you can hear when you say its name. In this activity, students will explore long vowel sounds.
zCentral Quick Launch Code: A191
What Sound Do You Hear?
Learning to read is like putting a puzzle together. You have to connect the pieces for a word make sense! First you have to learn the letters. Then you have to learn the letter sounds, and lastly you need to put the letter sounds together to make words. In this activity, students will identify the beginning letters of words and the sounds they make.
zCentral Quick Launch Code: A201
ABCs and 123s
One hundred and twenty-three or 123? Are they the same thing? Yes, they are the same, but one uses words and the other uses numbers to write the amount. To know this, you need to know your letters and numbers. In this activity, students will identify numbers and letters and create patterns using numbers and letters.
zCentral Quick Launch Code: A261
Do You Know Your ABCs?
If I said, “DGJ or PQH?” to you, would you know what I was talking about? How about, “ABC or XYZ?” I’m guessing that these last two sets of letters would help you figure out that I was talking about the alphabet, or the ABCs. We learn the alphabet in a particular order. The alphabet has capital and lowercase letters, and, sometimes, these partner letters look like each other. In this activity, students will explore capital and lowercase letters, as well as examine a group of letters and discover which letter is missing.
zCentral Quick Launch Code: A166