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1st grade science scripts $10 and up
STEM Seasonal BUNDLE - 30 Projects with Partner Plays STEM + Writing Spring
Kids love STEM, and these seasonal STEM activities integrate literacy through simple partner plays! Each challenge features a fun project, making it easy to explore STEM throughout the year in your integrated literacy program for kindergarten and first grade. This full year BUNDLE features 30 partner plays and 5 seasonal themes, including Easter, Spring and more! What is STEM?STEM involves:★ presenting students with an authentic problem★ challenging students to collaborate for possible solutions
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1st - 3rd
Readers Theater Scripts Growing Bundle - 1st & 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension
Are you looking for 1st and 2nd grade standards-based ELA reading, vocabulary, and review activities? Or maybe a fun and engaging readers theater to help with fluency? Mix these fluency and standards-based reading skills for a fun and engaging activity!There are 3-4 reader’s theater scripts within each unit. They range between two and four characters. Each readers theater script comes with a cover page, headband or necklace pieces, color copies, or black and white copies for each script.Each scr
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1st - 2nd
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Teach Culinary Nutrition Education at Your School (5-Class Sample Pack)
Introduce your students to the joys of cooking with fresh vegetables, and teach them about the importance of healthy eating in a fun and interactive way.With our Teach VegeCooking program, your students will learn valuable skills that will last a lifetime, all while having a great time in the kitchen. Order your five-class sample pack today and start transforming the way your students think about food!These classes can be run over a five week period, or for a week-long, five-day summer camp. Wha
Plants and Flowers: Information Text, Workbook, Experiments and Reader's Theater
This is a bundle of 4 products to engage primary students in the study of plants and flowers. It contains:An introductory E-book with simple text and large, realistic pictures. This 29-page non-fiction reader covers the parts of a seed, plant and flower, the purpose of each part, pollination and pollinators, plant reproduction and plants as food.A 20 page workbook to accompany the E-book and consolidate the students' learning from the book. The workbook contains an answer key and two versions
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1st - 3rd
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Readers' Theater: Lifecycles Non-Fiction MEGA pack
Help your students to improve fluency, infuse science AND have fun with these 8 Readers' Theater plays. Each play is 3-5 pages long with 2-6 characters.
Included with most plays:
-comprehension check
-draw & label
-writing activity (summarization)
Other goodies:
-close reading guidance
-fact finding worksheet
-word find
Subjects: apples, butterflies, flowers, frogs, pumpkin, salmon, snowman, water
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K - 4th
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Early years-See, Think, Wonder thinking routine.
Introducing our comprehensive "See, Think, Wonder" Teacher Resource Bundle – your all-in-one guide to effortlessly integrate this powerful thinking routine into your classroom! This thoughtfully curated bundle is designed to empower educators, whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting your teaching journey, with the tools and resources needed to nurture critical thinking skills in your students.What's Included:Teacher Notes: Navigate the world of the See, Think, Wonder routine with ease usi
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K - 3rd
Spring Life Cycle Play or Reader's Theater
This is a wonderful life cycle play that can be performed in the Spring. It can be used as a Reader's Theater or a full play. It includes 23 parts and can be modified. It also includes three songs for the class to sing. Such a wonderful way to practice fluency and learn the life cycles in Science. My first grades LOVE this!!
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K - 4th
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Space Class Play
Space Class Play for Key Stage I
This class play or assembly was written for 5 – 7 year olds *(version for older children also available)
Cast of 30 - easily adapted up or down
Duration - 15 - 20 minutes
Fun 'romp' through Space - with astronauts and, most importantly, rocket men - who would have thought an astronaut could forget his own rocket?! All 8 planets covered - before Narrator returns to Earth!
*Also available off this website and www.plays-r-ussell.com : Key Stage II version of this sc
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1st - 4th
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Social Narratives for Classroom Centers
Social narratives give a concrete example for children to learn the expectations and/or desired behaviors. This bundle includes a social narrative for group/circle time and 7 commonly found centers in early childhood classrooms.
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PreK - 1st
Insects On Parade: A Musical Revue for Elementary Students
Insects on Parade: A Musical Revue for Elementary Students
By Jeanne and Shanna Anderson
A delightful musical that teaches facts about insects including body parts, life cycles, simple and complex metamorphosis, adaptations, defenses and more. Features crickets, milkweed bugs, ladybugs, ants, darkling beetles, praying mantis, butterflies and moths.
Students are fascinated with interesting vocabulary words and quickly learn to use them when given the opportunity. When your students perform
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K - 3rd
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The Life Cycle of a Seed BUNDLE; Leveled Scripts, Reading passage, & Vocab Cards
The Life Cycle of a Sunflower Seed Reader's Theatre leveled scripts, nonfiction reading passage with comprehension questions, and vocabulary cards BUNDLEIncluded in this BUNDLE: Scripts Levels 1 and 2 plus matching Vocabulary Cards covering the science terminology underlined throughout the scripts. A nonfiction reading passage with comprehension questions and vocabulary match.Cover your life cycle content in more depth with the nonfiction reading passage and then let students review what they l
Seagull Adventures: A Musical Revue for Elementary Students
Seagull Adventures: A Musical Revue for Elementary Students
By Jeanne Anderson and Ralph Nelson
A delightful musical play that teaches facts about farm animals and sea creatures using familiar nursery rhymes and original songs. Two young seagulls get lost in a storm and land at a farm where Mother Goose shows them around, introducing them to the farm animals. Then Mother Goose accompanies the young seagulls back to their home and meets the ocean and tide pool animals.
This is a fun play fo
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K - 3rd
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Butterfly Life Cycle Class Play
Butterfly Life Cycle Class Play
This was written for 5 – 7 year olds (Key Stage I in U.K) as Life Cycles are taught earlier in school - but if anyone wants a script for older children (7 – 11 year olds with a lot more technical information) please let me know. Always happy to write on request.
Cast: 7 eggs - 7 caterpillars - 7 pupae - 7 butterflies! Plus one very busy narrator!
This class play comes with a FREE set of photos taken at July 2016 Butterfly exhibition at the Natural History Museum
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1st - 4th
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Honey Bees: A Musical Learning Experience
Students are fascinated with interesting vocabulary words and quickly learn to use them when given the opportunity. With Honey Bees, students learn facts about honey bees and things we can do to save the honey bee population while singing and performing. This is an excellent way for students to learn vocabulary and remember content. Songs and dialog use accurate, scientific vocabulary and add a touch of humor along the way.
The story opens with some flowers wondering where all the bees hav
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K - 3rd
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Global Warming at the Poles Class Play for Younger Children
Global Warming at the Poles Assembly for Key Stage I (5 – 7 year olds) Cast of 30Duration: Around 20 – 30 minutesThis is a Key Stage I (5 – 7 year olds) adaptation of two scripts I wrote for Key Stage II (7 – 11 year olds) – Our World and Poles Apart. It features a selection of animals from the Arctic and the Antarctic, plus some scientists speaking of global warming … and a snowman!Lots of jokes, poems, songs and light banter – along with some ‘serious stuff’ on global warming.Sample Text:Child
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1st - 3rd
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Habitats of the World
EIGHT SLIDESHOW PRESENTATIONS A YEAR’S WORTH OF STUDY FOR ONE PRICE!Do you want your students to have a world view of the Earth and its climate — its lands — and its plants and animals? This unit on “Habitats of the World” will help them explore the science and geography of the Earth through eight separate slide shows. The slide shows include numerous illustrations and maps plus simple language appropriate for the primary level. You may use the habitat presentations successively or spread them o
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1st - 4th
Nature Class Play based on British Wildlife and Seasons
Nature Class Play based on British Wildlife and Seasons
The writing of this assembly was prompted by an item on the news, revealing that many children remain very ‘out of touch’ with nature. This is the writer’s attempt to take a small step towards addressing that problem.
What does it take to impress some children?! Find out in this journey through the Natural World.
Nature is a massive subject so I have had to be very selective re choice of animals, plants, wildlife in general. The focus is ve
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1st - 4th
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Green Christmas ABC's Christmas Concert
Looking for an easy Christmas concert that shares an important message? Look no further! This concert is filled with information about how households can be more environmentally friendly this Christmas, presented in an easy to follow ABC format. Included is a full script with "green" suggestion from A to Z, and several parody Christmas carols that share an environmental message, with suggestions for how to develop your own.
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K - 8th
Exercise is Fun Class Play or Assembly
Exercise is Fun Class Play or AssemblyCast of 25 – easily adjusted up or down.25 types of sport - these can be replaced by children’s own choices.Duration: Around 10 minutes not including music suggestions.This class play or assembly is, as the title suggests, full of fun! But it carries the important message that exercise is vital for our wellbeing. It makes us feel good inside and out – and there are so many benefits, socially, physically and mentally.Sample TextNarrator: So, tell us. What is
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1st - 4th
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Summer Class Play for Younger Children
Summer Class Play for Younger Children (Key Stage 1)
Sunshine and the seaside - how can you not love the summer? Have a word with our poor narrator - first it's hay fever and then ... that wasp!
Cast of 30 - easily adaptable up or down.
Duration - around 10 minutes, though this can be extended with the addition of suggested poems.
This is one of a collection of assemblies on The Seasons - the others all available separately (Autumn, Winter and Spring) from this website and www.plays-r-ussell.c
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1st - 4th
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Frog Life Cycle Class Play
Frog Life Cycle Class Play
This was written for 5 – 7 year olds (Key Stage I in U.K) as Life Cycles are taught earlier in school - but if anyone wants a script for older children (7 – 11 year olds with a lot more technical information) please let me know. Always happy to write on request.
Change isn't always for the worst - as amply demonstrated by this class play.
Written for cast of 30, but easily adaptable up or down, there are 14 frogs, 12 tadpoles, a fish, a water beetle, a French chef ..
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1st - 4th
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Spring Class Play
Spring Class Play for younger children
This is the first of a series of plays on the Seasons written for younger children – around 5 - 7 (Key Stage I in the UK). This first one covers 20 plus 'first signs of spring' and includes a reference to the first chapter of Wind in the Willows, with Mole and Rat extolling the joys of the riverbank!
Cast of 30 (easily adaptable up or down) It is suggested that the class teacher takes the role of narrator.
Duration: Around 10 – 15 minutes including poems an
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1st - 3rd
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Readers Theatre - A Berry Good Skipping Rhyme
Just in time for spring! Skipping! This rhyme is presented in three formats: Big Book for shared and guided reading, Big Script, for shared and guided reading, and Small Script for take home and individual practice and eventual performance! Included are suggestions for working with the text, and developing and expanding reading skills. Text reconstruction cards are included in this 17 page BIG BOOK! You will need to print this on 11 x 17 paper.
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K - 2nd
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Winter Class Play for Younger Children
Winter Class Play or Assembly for Younger Children (Key Stage One)
Cast of 30 - easily adaptable up or down
Duration: Around 10 - 15 minutes. This length can be extended by the addition of suggested poems.
Brrrr! .... surely there's a bit more to be said about winter than this?! Well, if left to our cast it would just be the sound of snoring - any excuse to follow the lead of that hibernating hedgehog. Fortunately, you can always rely on a bit of Disney to revive flagging spirits - plus some sno
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1st - 4th
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