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  • What Animals Do
    Description:
          Children use a word list to complete sentences about animals' actions.

  • Animal Name Game
    Description:
          This page is used to play a game of concentration. Each card has a different animal group named and pictured.

  • How Many Teeth?
    Description:
          On this page, students read a graph that shows how many teeth children in one class lost.

  • A Bright Smile
    Description:
          Children look at pictures and evaluate whether each item is healthy or unhealthy for their teeth.

  • Kids: Then and Now
    Description:
          For this activity, students complete a chart comparing children in the time of George Washington and today.

  • Our First President
    Description:
          After reading a simple story, students answer questions about George Washington as a child.

  • George Washington's Hat
    Description:
          This bilingual send-home page gives students directions for making a simple, historic three-cornered hat.

  • Games Calendar
    Description:
          This cut-and-paste page asks students to complete a calendar of Olympic events.

  • Favorite Sports
    Description:
          Students read a bar graph about favorite winter sports.

  • Kinds of Wind
    Description:
          On this page, students make a t-chart comparing helpful and harmful wind.

  • Parts of a Tree
    Description:
          Children are asked to label a tree diagram on this page.

  • They Need Trees
    Description:
          On this bilingual page, students match pictures with action words.

  • A Pet Schedule
    Description:
          Students look at clocks to answer questions about a cat's feeding schedule.

  • How Much Can It Hold?
    Description:
          Students compare the capacities of different containers for this activity.

  • All About Trees
    Description:
          This bilingual send-home page offers a review of trees and asks children to expand on an illustration.

  • The Rain Forest
    Description:
          Use this graphic organizer to have students sort rain-forest plants and animals.

  • Forest Trail
    Description:
          On this mapping page, students follow directions and use a key.

  • Baseball Players
    Description:
          Students fill in the blanks to complete a baseball-park picture.

  • Math at the Ballpark
    Description:
          Students solve word problems relating to baseball.

  • From Tiny to Huge
    Description:
          On this cut-and-paste page, students complete the life cycle of a sea turtle.

  • Help the Tiny Turtle
    Description:
          This activity page has a sea-turtle maze geared toward young students.

  • Same Sounds
    Description:
          Students observe like initial sounds and rhyming words from lines of poems.

  • Color Poem
    Description:
          This activity page prompts children to write a poem using color words.

  • Recycling Count
    Description:
          This page has a picture graph about recycling. Students read it and respond to questions.

  • Signs of Spring
    Description:
          For this cut-and-paste activity, students match pictures with spring words to form a picture of flowers.

  • A Thank-You Card
    Description:
          Use this page as a start for making a thank-you card that will be fit on a paper bag.

  • Act Like an Animal
    Description:
          For this activity, students read and cut out picture/word cards about animal mothers and fathers.

  • Finding Facts
    Description:
          Students identify the five Ws of a dinosaur-discovery news story that read.

  • Dinosaur Sizes
    Description:
          On this page, students cut out pictures of dinosaurs and arrange them in size order.

  • Watching Whales
    Description:
          Reading tally marks on a chart, students answer questions.

  • Animal Groups
    Description:
          Students match pictures of animal groups with the names for each of them.

  • On the Mark
    Description:
          For this activity, students determine whether to use a period or a question mark at the end of each sentence given.

  • What Comes Next?
    Description:
          This cut-and-paste page asks students to arrange book titles in alphabetical order.

  • A Healthy Meal
    Description:
          For this bilingual page, students read a shopping list and choose fruits and vegetables they would buy.

  • Read a Recipe
    Description:
          Students read a pie recipe and answer questions based on it.

  • Family Recipes
    Description:
          This bilingual send-home page asks families to choose a favorite recipe for children to follow and then record.

  • Looking Back
    Description:
          Using a writing web, students reflect on the past year.

  • In the News
    Description:
          Children read headlines, cut them out and paste them in the correct news category.

  • Good Eats
    Description:
          This bilingual page asks students to match specific foods to the group to which each belongs.

  • Time to Eat
    Description:
          Students read and complete a picture graph about school lunch.

  • Living the Dream
    Description:
          Students use prompts on this page to write about Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Dr. King's Dream
    Description:
          This following-directions activity leads students to make little books about Martin Luther King's message.

  • Mapping the Poles
    Description:
          On this map-reading page, students compare the geography of the Arctic and Antarctica.

  • Polar Animals
    Description:
          Students look at pictures and use their prior knowledge to identify animals by group.

  • Polar Postcard
    Description:
          On this bilingual send-home page, students and their families write an imaginary letter from a polar trip.

  • Earth and Pluto
    Description:
          Students read a t-chart to compare two planets.

  • In the Sky
    Description:
          After cutting out pictures of Earth, the Sun and the Moon, labeled in English and Spanish, students do a simple art project.

  • Snow Adds Up
    Description:
          Students create a graph based on information they read.

  • Keep Count
    Description:
          Using addition and subtraction, students solve giving-season story problems.

  • Act It Out
    Description:
          Students interpret giving-season scenarios through drawing and role play.

  • Shape and Color
    Description:
          This activity asks students to sort objects by shape and color. Spanish color words are included.

  • One Is Different
    Description:
          Students look at a group of objects and determine which one does not belong.

  • Remembering the Past
    Description:
          On this bilingual send-home page, students create their own seasons books with memories of the past year.

  • How a Tsunami Happens
    Description:
          Students read the steps of how a tsunami may occur, and then they sequence pictures.

  • After a Disaster
    Description:
          For this activity, students match problems that occur after a disaster with solutions.

  • An Animal's Plans
    Description:
          Students determine words to complete sentences about groundhog habits.

  • Groundhogs Grow
    Description:
          Students read a chart about a groundhog's growth and then answer questions.

  • The President's Job
    Description:
          This activity page asks students to write and draw about one of the President's duties.

  • Inside the White House
    Description:
          Students answer true and false questions after reading numerical facts about the White House.

  • Our Neighbors
    Description:
          This page asks students to follow directions to color a map of North America.

  • My Community
    Description:
          Students cut out pictures (with bilingual labels) and choose those that make sense for a story about their community.

  • In Case of Emergency
    Description:
          This bilingual send-home page reminds families to review emergency checklists.

  • Ends of the Earth
    Description:
          Students read a chart about the Arctic and Antarctic and then answer questions.

  • One Day...
    Description:
          This prewriting activity prepares children to write a story about a dream they hope to achieve.

  • Work on a Farm
    Description:
          On this page, students find complete sentences with appropriate farm vocabulary words.

  • Compare Two Jobs
    Description:
          Students compare the jobs of a farmer and a veterinarian.

  • Count Coins and Dollars
    Description:
          Students add after identifying coin and dollar values.

  • Money Choices
    Description:
          Students make a decision about how they would spend money at a store.

  • Weather Opposites
    Description:
          On this bilingual page, students cut out raindrop shapes and match opposite weather words.

  • Tracking Weather
    Description:
          Students read a calendar in order to answer questions about wet and dry days.

  • Watching the Weather
    Description:
          On this bilingual send-home page, students keep track of the weather for one week.

  • Enjoying Earth
    Description:
          Students reflect on what they think is beautiful about the earth.

  • Helping Earth
    Description:
          This activity gives students practice classifying ideas into one of two categories: problems that

  • Ladybug Life Cycle
    Description:
          On this page, students complete the life cycle of a ladybug by cutting and pasting the stages in their correct place on the chart.

  • Count the Spots
    Description:
          Students count the spots on the ladybugs and then put them into categories based on the number of spots each has.

  • Plants We Eat
    Description:
          On this bilingual page, students cut out pictures of different vegetables and then paste them onto the correct

  • A Growing Story
    Description:
          Students use a chart to help them plan a how-to story about planting.

  • Watching the Weather
    Description:
          Use this graph and visual symbols to keep track of the weather

  • R is for Rain
    Description:
          Use visual cues to help kids identify letters and sounds

  • Meet My Friend
    Description:
          Use this frame to help draw a new friend

  • Learning About Butterflies
    Description:
          Teach the 9/27/02 cover story: Butterflies

  • Parts of a Fire Truck
    Description:
          Use a diagram to identify different parts of a fire truck

  • Focus on Fire Safety
    Description:
          Copy and send home this activity on fire safety and fire drills

  • Where are my Wings?
    Description:
          Connect the dots and color in the butterfly to make a monarch puppet

  • A Butterfly Book
    Description:
          Make your own butterfly book by coloring in the pictures, cutting them out, and then putting them in order

  • An Apple Poem
    Description:
          Use given vocabulary words, or your own words, to complete a poem

  • Colorful Leaves
    Description:
          Color in leaves and then complete a graph showing how many leaves there are in each color

  • From the Farm to You!
    Description:
          Match each food with the plant or animal it comes from

  • Quite a Quilt!
    Description:
          Complete the quilt by following the directions and coloring each shape a different color

  • "We Need Rain" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach the 9/13/02 cover story: Weather

  • "Making Friends" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach the 9/13/02 Theme: Friendship

  • Get to Know TFK: The Big Picture
    Description:
          Explore the different parts of TFK's The Big Picture

  • "Colorful Fall!" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's theme: Fall

  • Come to the Fair!
    Description:
          Teach the October 11, 2002 cover story: Come to the Fair!

  • Description:
          Teach the 9/27/02 Theme: Fire Safety

  • "Happy Birthday, Teddy!" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's cover story: Happy Birthday, Teddy!

  • "Helping Hands" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's theme: Community

  • Giving to Others
    Description:
          Students follow the directions to make a bank to use for saving pennies for a worthy cause

  • "Helping Hands" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's theme: Community

  • "A Trip Into Space" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach the 10/25/02 cover story: Space

  • "Spiders" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach the 10/25/02 theme: Spiders

  • Get Ready to Go!
    Description:
          Circle the items you would want to take on a trip to space

  • All Around the Sun
    Description:
          Use an illustration of our solar system to answer questions

  • The Spider Spins a Web
    Description:
          Cut out pictures and sequence them to show how a spider spins its web

  • What a Web!
    Description:
          Use this experiment to show how a spider catches insects in its web

  • Day by Day
    Description:
          Read a calendar and answer questions

  • Happy Birthday to Me!
    Description:
          Students decorate a cake for their own birthday

  • A Park Project
    Description:
          Read a chart about different jobs in a park and then answer questions

  • Rhino Facts
    Description:
          Compare and contrast a White Rhino and an Indian Rhino

  • A Powwow Day
    Description:
          Cut out each box and put them in order so they show what happens on a powwow day

  • Sharing a Story
    Description:
          Family Page: Read a story to the kids and then ask them to share their favorite parts and draw a picture

  • Ballet Puppets
    Description:
          Make puppets by coloring pictures and cutting them out

  • My Riddle Book
    Description:
          Use hints in the letter box and pictures to find words that rhyme with snow

  • Where are the Animals?
    Description:
          Look at the picture and use the words in the word box to determine what some animals do in winter

  • Help the Groundhog
    Description:
          TFK Family Page: Use this maze to trace the path of a groundhog

  • Special Words
    Description:
          Make a book using the words from a song

  • Martin and Me
    Description:
          Compare and contrast your life to Dr. King's life

  • Adding Up the Snow
    Description:
          Read a graph that shows how much snow a town got in one week

  • What to Wear?
    Description:
          Match each article of clothing with the weather in which it would be worn

  • Look at that Tooth!
    Description:
          Look at a picture of a tooth and then draw lines matching up the clues and the answers

  • Family Page: I Care About My Smile
    Description:
          Send this page home for parents and encourage them to use the chart to have kids keep track of how often he or she brushes in a week

  • Everyone is Special!
    Description:
          Go on a scavenger hunt to learn how your class is special

  • A Biography
    Description:
          Use this graphic organizer to plan a story about a person

  • "Ice Age Rhinos" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's news story: Fossils

  • My Animal Notes
    Description:
          Look at an animal and write down what you find out

  • "A Time for Celebrating" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's theme: Native Americans

  • "A Magical Holiday Show" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's news issue: Holidays

  • "Ready for Winter" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's theme: Animals in Winter

  • Martin Luther King Jr.
    Description:
          Teach the cover story: Martin Luther King Jr.

  • "Whoosh! What a Winter!" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's news story: Weather

  • "Take a Look at Your Teeth!" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's theme: Dental Health

  • "A Hero On andOff the Field" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's news cover story: Heroes

  • "Presidents Then and Now" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's theme: Presidents' Day

  • Parts of a Bat
    Description:
          Students look at a diagram of a bat to answer questions.

  • Match the Bats
    Description:
          Use this visual discrimination activity to teach about the diversity of bats.

  • How Trees Shape Up
    Description:
          Students can apply their knowledge of shapes to how trees look.

  • Leaf Concentration
    Description:
          Print this page to create cards for a memory game about tree leaves.

  • Changing Seas
    Description:
          Send this page home for families to make a seasons cycle. Directions are in both English and Spanish.

  • And the Winner Is . . .
    Description:
          This page asks kids to read ordinal numbers for first, second and third.

  • Taking Care of a Dog
    Description:
          Use this page to give practice reading a chart.

  • You Do an Interview!
    Description:
          This page will give students the chance to play reporter.

  • Make a Book
    Description:
          Print this page to have students create their own books about the writing process.

  • You Sensed It!
    Description:
          Use this page to distinguish between different sights, sounds, tastes, feels and smells.

  • Thanksgiving Count
    Description:
          Students will make a graph based on a Thanksgiving foods spread.

  • Winter Word Problems
    Description:
          Students will solve story problems that are centered around winter.

  • A Celebration Story
    Description:
          Use this page as a prewriting activity for a narrative story.

  • Map the News
    Description:
          This page asks students to find states where events took place on a U.S. map.

  • Go, Penguins, Go
    Description:
          On this page, students choose action words to finish sentences.

  • Parts of a Penguin
    Description:
          Students complete labels on the diagram of a penguin on this page.

  • Look at Them Go
    Description:
          On this page, students analyze the features of different vehicles.

  • Trying to Fly
    Description:
          This page is a game about learning to fly a plane that requires students to follow directions.

  • A Day in My Life
    Description:
          Students look at clocks on this page and tell what they do at each time the clock face shows.

  • It Takes Time
    Description:
          This page asks students to complete clock faces to show elapsed time.

  • Last Year
    Description:
          Use this reflective writing page to review a year by season.

  • Happy New Year Family Page
    Description:
          This page provides a January 2004 calendar for students to keep track of their New Year's resolutions.

  • Meet the Baby
    Description:
          On this page, students complete a birth announcement for a baby bonobo.

  • Our World
    Description:
          Children follow directions to color the world's continents and oceans.

  • Drawing a Story
    Description:
          This English-Spanish bilingual page asks children to draw interpretations of simple sentences.

  • Story of a Singer
    Description:
          Students read a simple biography of Billie Holiday and then answer questions with visual clues.

  • At the Pond
    Description:
          Children look at an illustration of a pond and follow directions with words such as over and under.

  • Taking a Tally
    Description:
          This page asks students to read a chart with tally marks to answer questions.

  • From Boy to Man
    Description:
          Students compare Abraham Lincoln as a child and adult with this cut-and-paste t-chart.

  • What a Hat
    Description:
          Using a writing section in the shape of Abraham Lincoln's hat, students answer a writing prompt.

  • American Symbols
    Description:
          Available 1/27/04

  • American Symbols
    Description:
          This bilingual English-Spanish family send-home page asks students to match U.S. symbols with text.

  • "Toys!" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's news story: Toys

  • "Oh, Baby!" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's theme: Baby Animals

  • Animals Can Move!
    Description:
          Use the pictures and the other words in the sentence to help finding the missing word

  • "Is This the Job for You?" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's theme: Careers

  • "Celebrate Spring" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's news story: Spring

  • "Keeping in Touch" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this weeks news: Communication

  • "Welcome to the Rain Forest" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's theme: Rain Forest

  • Addressing Children's Fears about War and Terrorism
    Description:
          A child psychologist offers pointers that parents can use to help children cope in these unsettling times

  • Teacher's Guide: Green Schools

  • "A Circus Family" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's news issue: Families

  • "Save the Earth! Recycle a Bottle" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's theme issue: Earth Day

  • "The Pandas Move In!" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's cover story: Pandas

  • "Your Five Senses" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week's cover story: The Five Senses

  • "A Good Look at Mars" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week’s cover story on Mars

  • Big Picture Theme and Current Events Calendar
    Description:
          An outline of themes to be covered in upcoming issues

  • "Storm Season" Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this week’s cover story on storms

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide - November 2003
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues on Prize Pets, Making Great Books, Here Comes Thanksgiving, Winter around the World

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues on Looking Back at 2003, 100 Years of Flying, Penguins on the Go, and A Day in My Life.

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues on "Welcome, Baby Ape", "Painting a Story", "The Pond is Our Home", and "From a Farm to the White House".

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues on "Wild About Museums", "Be Happy and Healthy", "Heroes Here and There" and "They Look Alike!".

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues on "The Race Is On", "Bee My Honey", "See Me in the Sea" and "Hummingbird Nest".

  • Count the Ways
    Description:
          This page asks students to read a graph about how kids go to school.

  • My Family
    Description:
          Students use this page to create a web telling about their families.

  • Big and Small Families
    Description:
          This bilingual activity page asks students to count the members of each family pictured.

  • A World of Color
    Description:
          Students read color words to color in a picture of animals hidden in their habitat.

  • Kinds of Homes
    Description:
          This activity asks students to match descriptive words with pictures of animals.

  • Meet TIME For Kids!
    Description:
          This English-Spanish send-home page asks students to use words to describe different homes.

  • Take a Vote
    Description:
          Students practice the concept of voting by reading a graph with tally marks.

  • Take a Guess
    Description:
          Use this voting-related activity to give students practice with estimating.

  • You Can Be President Game
    Description:
          This simple game gives students a fun way of learning about the Presidential campaign process.

  • Helping a Pet
    Description:
          This sequencing activity gives students an understanding of caring for pets when a big storm comes.

  • A Month of Weather
    Description:
          This activity page asks students to follow directions to draw weather symbols on a calendar.

  • Five Senses in Fall
    Description:
          On this page, students write a poem about experiences in each season.

  • Seasons Cycle
    Description:
          This cut-and-paste activity reinforces the concept of a seasons cycle.

  • Watch It Glide
    Description:
          Students look at a diagram and match clues, in both English and Spanish, about the animal's body parts.

  • By Day and By Night
    Description:
          On this page, students write comparisons between what they do during the day and night.

  • The Life of Columbus
    Description:
          Students cut out pictures representing concepts and paste them near facts about Christopher Columbus.

  • On the Ship
    Description:
          For this activity, students must determine which objects were potentially used by Christopher Columbus.

  • TFK Family Page: Night and Day
    Description:
          This bilingual send-home page has an activity in which students sort animals by day or night.

  • A Special Symbol
    Description:
          Students follow directions to color in the Presidential seal.

  • If I Were President
    Description:
          This activity invites students to write and draw about choices they would make as President

  • Symbols of Nature
    Description:
          This bilingual activity has students match clues with picture symbols.

  • Beautiful Beads
    Description:
          Students use a key to complete color patterns and make wearable bracelets.

  • To the Den
    Description:
          In this activity, students read clues about different kinds of bears to solve a maze.

  • Be a Bear
    Description:
          Students use this page as a script for a reader's theater about bears.

  • The Same Sides
    Description:
          For this activity, students draw to complete the missing half of animal pictures.

  • Make a Book
    Description:
          Students use prompts to write their own animal stories and make little books.

  • Special Objects
    Description:
          On this bilingual send-home page, students are asked to write about and draw items in their homes that are important to them.

  • Calendar Riddles
    Description:
          Students solve riddles about months of the year.

  • The Years Go By
    Description:
          This cut-and-paste activity asks students to put the years 2001 to 2005 in order.

  • Sort Snowflakes
    Description:
          On this page, students find pairs of snowflakes that have similar attributes.

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues on "The Games in Greece" and "America! America!".

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues on "Election Fever", "The Way We Go to School", "Family Fun!" and "Safe at Home".

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues on "High and Dry", "When Fall Comes", "Whooo Is Awake at Night?" and "Meet Christopher Columbus".

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues: "Four More Years," "Proud Americans," "What Bears Eat" and "She Tells Animal Stories."

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues: "Looking Back at 2004," "Let It Snow!," "Sharing Brings Smiles" and "Sort It Out."

  • Good Work
    Description:
          Students read a graph that shows the activities one class did on Earth Day.

  • Good Work
    Description:
          Students read a graph that shows the activities one class did on Earth Day.

  • Seasons for Bees
    Description:
          Students read a cycle chart about bees and then answer questions.

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues: "After the Waves," "Wake Up, Groundhog!," "Life in the White House" and "This Land Is Our Land."

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues: "Ice Explorers," "Life on a Farm," "Your Money," and "Weather, Wet and Dry."

  • Choose the Tool
    Description:
          In this activity, students must match the tool to the description of how it is used.

  • How It Measures Up
    Description:
          Students compare objects in terms of length, volume and weight.

  • Growing a Garden
    Description:
          On this bilingual send-home page, students are encouraged to learn more about plants with a family member.

  • Mammoth Facts
    Description:
          Students use illustrations and a chart to compare two different kinds of mammoths.

  • What Mammoths Looked Like
    Description:
          On this bilingual page, students study a diagram of a mammoth and label its different body parts.

  • An Animal Tale
    Description:
          Students use this script to act out the communication of a wolf pack.

  • Animals Add Up
    Description:
          In this activity, students answer questions based on a bar graph that shows the number of

  • An Ape at Home
    Description:
          On this page, students cut out sentences and paste them under pictures to make correct captions.

  • A as in Ape
    Description:
          Students draw from a word bank of long-a sound words to complete a silly story.

  • Who Is in School Today?
    Description:
          On this page, students read an attendance chart and answer questions.

  • My Cool School
    Description:
          Kids become artists and writers when they are asked to describe their school.

  • Know Your Colors
    Description:
          This activity gives children directions for creating a minibook of color words in both English and Spanish.

  • Pińata Party
    Description:
          For this activity, students count groups of objects by tens and ones.

  • Racing Shapes
    Description:
          Children follow directions to color in a racecar according to its shapes.

  • Shapes at School
    Description:
          On this activity page, students cut out pictures of classroom objects, sort them by shape and paste them into a simple graph.

  • Welcome!
    Description:
          This bilingual send-home page introduces parents to the Big Picture edition of TIME For Kids and gives children a shape-counting activity.

  • A Hurricane Hits
    Description:
          Students identify the causes and effects of a hurricane on this cut-and-paste page.

  • Counting Kid Helpers
    Description:
          On this page, students read a picture graph about student service projects.

  • The Great Escape
    Description:
          Students look at a house floor plan to plan a fire escape route.

  • Stay Safe
    Description:
          Children match clues and responses on this fire safety activity page.

  • In a Heartbeat
    Description:
          This hands-on page shows students how to take their pulse.

  • It's Your Body
    Description:
          This bilingual page gives students a diagram of the human body and asks them to add body-word labels.

  • A Spider's Body
    Description:
          Students study a diagram of a spider in order to complete a matching activity.

  • A Garden Graph
    Description:
          On this page, students look at a picture of insects and arachnids. They use the information to complete a basic bar graph.

  • Families Helping Families
    Description:
          On this bilingual send-home page, parents learn how their family can help families affected by Hurricane Katrina. Children complete a drawing activity.

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues: "Help the Earth," "Ladybugs Grow Up," "Let Us Grow Lettuce!," and "Taking Measures."

  • For the Birds
    Description:
          Student read the steps to make a bird feeder and answer questions.

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues: "A Mammoth Discovery" and "Come Together."

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues: "Apes Help Apes", "Where Do You Go to School?", "Hello, Mexico!" and "Shapes at the Racetrack."

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues: "Looking Back at 2005", "What's for Lunch?", "Making a Difference" and "Life at the Icy Poles."

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues: "Help After a Big Storm", "Stay Safe in a Fire", "It's Your Body" and "Spiders' Tricks."

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues: "Found!", "What a Trip", "Picture This" and "Fresh Food."

  • Making a Pattern Bracelet
    Description:
          Use math to make a bracelet

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues: "Next Stop, Pluto", "A Visit to the Dentist", "Look Who's Talking" and "A Long Time Ago."

  • Our World
    Description:
          Students identify land and water on a world map.

  • A Good Look
    Description:
          On this page, students compare two panda pictures.

  • My Friend and Me
    Description:
          Using a simple t-chart, children compare themselves to a friend.

  • Choices at School
    Description:
          This activity asks students to match sentences about school activities with pictures.

  • Wash Your Hands
    Description:
          On this cut-and-paste activity, students review facts about hand washing.

  • Taking Care of Me
    Description:
          Students identify beginning letters to complete sentences about hygiene.

  • Getting to Work
    Description:
          Students read a transportation picture graph and answer questions.

  • Transportation Shapes
    Description:
          This page asks students to count shapes they see in vehicle pictures.

  • What Does a Space Suit Do?
    Description:
          Students read a diagram of a space suit to learn how it works.

  • Up in Space
    Description:
          On this cut-and-paste activity, students match clues to pictures.

  • A Pumpkin Grows
    Description:
          Students order the stages of a pumpkin’s growth in this cut-and-paste activity.

  • My Owl Book
    Description:
          This page asks students to follow directions to complete a book about owls.

  • Active Animals
    Description:
          Students decide whether animals are active during the day or the night.

  • A Fall Lunch
    Description:
          Students follow directions to complete an activity using their five senses.

  • Choose the Word
    Description:
          Students choose words from a word bank to help them complete sentences about their five senses.

  • A Special Delivery
    Description:
          Students draw three items that they would send to U.S. troops and then write a message.

  • What does the Military Do?
    Description:
          Students learn about the job of each branch of the U.S. military by matching clues to pictures.

  • Family Questions
    Description:
          This worksheet asks students to interview a grown-up about a tradition.

  • Basket Patterns
    Description:
          This worksheet asks students to read color words and complete a pattern.

  • A Year With Bears
    Description:
          In this cut and paste activity, students decide what bears do during each season.

  • Fast Asleep
    Description:
          Students discover which animal is sleeping by following ABC order to connect the dots.

  • Sports Time
    Description:
          Students choose words from a word bank to help them complete sentences about the time it takes to do certain activities.

  • Time For Sports Lessons
    Description:
          Students read a schedule and answer questions about the time each sports lesson begins.

  • Being Brave
    Description:
          This graphic organizer helps students to plan a story about a time when they acted bravely.

  • The Life of Rosa Parks
    Description:
          This worksheet prompts students to show what they have learned about Rosa Parks’s life.

  • Look Ahead to 2007
    Description:
          This worksheet gives students practice reading a calendar.

  • A TIME For Kids Cover
    Description:
          Students choose an event from the past year to illustrate on a TIME For Kids cover.

  • Teach this month’s issues
    Description:
          “Looking Back at 2006,” “A Brave American,” “When Snow Falls” and “Happy New Year!”

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues: "On Top of the World," "Wow! Wind Works," "Living in a Tree," and "Measuring Pets."

  • Blowing Leaves
    Description:
          Students do a cut-and-paste activity to compare clear and stormy weather.

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          "A Land of New Animals," "Being a Baseball Star," "Seawater Swimmers," and "Wild About Poems."

  • El Bosque Tropical
    Description:
          Use this Spanish page with a graphic organizer for students to sort rain-forest plants and animals.

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide, May 2006
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues, "Green School" and "All in the Family."

  • Big Picture Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues, "A New Zoo Home," "Unique at School," "Keeping Clean" and "Go! Go! Go!"

  • Mi Amigo y Yo
    Description:
          On this Spanish page, children use a simple t-chart to compare themselves to a friend.

  • Big Picture Teacher’s Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month’s issues, “3, 2, 1… Blast Off!,” “Pumpkin Season,” “All About Owls” and “Five Senses in Fall.”

  • Mi Libro De Búhos
    Description:
          On this Spanish page, children follow directions to complete a book about owls.

  • U.S. Symbols Match
    Description:
          Students read clues describing U.S. symbols and match the clue to the symbol.

  • A Bird Builds a Nest
    Description:
          Students put in order the steps a bird takes to build a nest.

  • Going Home
    Description:
          Students solve a maze by drawing a line from each critter to the home it builds.

  • Giving Thanks
    Description:
          Students complete a graphic organizer with four things for which they are thankful.

  • A Thanksgiving Recipe
    Description:
          Students read a recipe and answer questions.

  • Teacher's Guide: The Face of a King

  • Teacher's Guide: TFK Looks Back at 2007
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues, "Looking Back at 2007," "Partners for Life," "Life Stories" and "The Gift of Giving."

  • Color by Number
    Description:
          Students read a key to color in a picture of a gingerbread man.

  • Animals Working Together
    Description:
          Students read a passage about an animal partnership and answer questions.

  • Picture This!
    Description:
          This worksheet prompts students to analyze a family photo and write a story.

  • Easy As A-B-C
    Description:
          Students cut and then paste book titles in alphabetical order.

  • Time to Share
    Description:
          Students read about kids’ talents and then match the kid to something he or she could do to help others.

  • Count the Kid Helpers
    Description:
          Students build a graph to show how kids in one class are helping in the community.

  • All About an Animal
    Description:
          This worksheet helps students to organize their research on an animal.

  • Holidays in the News
    Description:
          Students read a schedule of holiday events and answer questions.

  • Los Diseños en las Canastas
    Description:
          On this Spanish page, students read color words and complete a pattern.

  • My Riddle Book
    Description:
          Students read clues to help them discover words in the 'ear' family.

  • New Year Promises
    Description:
          Students use this graphic organizer to make resolutions in the new year.

  • Falling Snow
    Description:
          Students read a graph about snowfall in different towns in January.

  • Effects of Weather
    Description:
          In this cut and paste activity, students must decide which pictures show the effects of different types of weather.

  • A Celebration Story
    Description:
          Use this organizer to help students put their ideas into a story.

  • Last Year
    Description:
          Use this organizer to help students reflect and write about the past year.

  • Seasons Cycle
    Description:
          Use this organizer to help students undertand the seasons.

  • If I Were President
    Description:
          Draw and write answers for each idea about being President.

  • Plants We Eat
    Description:
          Use this organizer to help students classify vegetables.

  • A Growing Story
    Description:
          Use this chart to plan a how-to story about planting.

  • Looking Back
    Description:
          Use this organizer to help students remember the past year.

  • The Rainforest
    Description:
          Use this organizer to help students write about animals in the rainforest.

  • Solving a Problem
    Description:
          Use this chart to help students discuss and understand a problem.

  • Plants We Eat
    Description:
          Complete the chart to show different kinds of vegetables that we eat.

  • Teacher's Guide

  • I Remember When
    Description:
          Use this picture web to remember favorite family memories.

  • My Friend
    Description:
          Use this chart to help your students think about friends.

  • Ways We Go
    Description:
          Use this organizer to help students think about vehicles that take them where they need to go.

  • All About A State
    Description:
          Use this organizer to help students learn about American states.

  • Winter Word Problems
    Description:
          Students solve addition and subtraction word problems.

  • Ice-Castle Shapes
    Description:
          Students find and color shapes in an ice castle drawing.

  • Wild Animals Stay Safe
    Description:
          This worksheet prompts students to show how one animal responds to enemies.

  • Science Words Work
    Description:
          Students decide which type of animal defense is being described.

  • What is the Question?
    Description:
          After reading the responses a park ranger gave in an interview, students write the question that they think the interviewer asked.

  • Bird Watching
    Description:
          In this cut and paste activity, students build a graph using data from a tally chart.

  • My Pigeon Story
    Description:
          Students use this graphic organizer to create their own story about Mo Willems’ popular pigeon character.

  • Look at a Book
    Description:
          Students answer questions about a book’s cover.

  • Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month’s issues, “A World of Snow and Ice,” “Sneaky, Stinky Tricks,” “Protecting Our Parks” and “Get to Know Mo.”

  • Observa Las Aves
    Description:
          On this Spanish page, students build a graph using data from a tally chart.

  • Teacher's Guide
    Description:
          Students draw the hands on clocks to show what time each event in a dog show begins.

  • Where are the Winners?
    Description:
          Students gain practice identifying positions, such as top, bottom, middle, left and right.

  • What’s the Solution?
    Description:
          Students complete a problem and solution chart that shows some of the problems health workers in Africa face and the ways that they solve those problems.

  • To the Rescue!
    Description:
          Students draw a line to show the path that the health worker must take to reach the African village.

  • Invention Sort
    Description:
          In this cut-and-paste activity, students sort pictures of transportation inventions into different categories.

  • Look at a Lizard
    Description:
          Students answer questions about a diagram showing the parts of a lizard.

  • Lizards, Big and Small
    Description:
          In this cut-and-paste activity, students order different lizards from smallest to largest.

  • Los Lagartos, Grandes Y Pequeńos
    Description:
          On this Spanish page, students cut out different lizards and then order them from smallest to largest.

  • Time For A Dog Show
    Description:
          Students draw the hands on clocks to show what time each event in a dog show begins.

  • Invention Riddles
    Description:
          This worksheet asks students to solve rhyming invention riddles.

  • Big Picture Teacher’s Guide
    Description:
          Teach this month's issues, "Wonders of the World," "Down Comes the Rain!," "Cash for a Good Cause" and "It's a Jungle in Here!"

  • Vote for the Wonders
    Description:
          Students read tally marks to discover which world wonders received the most student votes.

  • Wet Weather Effects
    Description:
          In this activity, students complete a cause and effect chart on rainy weather.

  • What's the Weather?
    Description:
          This worksheet asks students to read a weather chart.

  • How Much Does It Cost?
    Description:
          This worksheet asks students to circle the amount of money that each grocery item costs.

  • Life in the Rain Forest
    Description:
          Students read a diagram of the rain forest and complete an activity.

  • Where are the Rain Forests?
    Description:
          Students read a map that shows where the rain forests are located and answer questions.

  • A Look at Lady Liberty
    Description:
          United States, DiagramsStudents read a diagram to learn about the Statue of Liberty.

  • Los Effectos de la Lluvia
    Description:
          On this Spanish page, students complete a cause and effect chart on rainy weather.

  • A Helping Hand
    Description:
          In this cut and paste activity, students order the steps that one kid took to raise money.

  • Teacher's Guide: Sailing Into History

  • Teacher's Guide

  • Teacher's Guide

  • TIME For Kids Cover
    Description:
          Students follow directions to create their own cover of TIME For Kids magazine.

  • Look Ahead to 2007
    Description:
          Students read a calendar and answer questions

  • The Life of Rosa Parks
    Description:
          Students answer questions about Rosa Parks' life.

  • Being Brave
    Description:
          This worksheet asks students to write about a time that they were brave.

  • Falling Snow
    Description:
          Students read a bar graph and answer questions.

  • New Year Promises
    Description:
          Students reflect on the chagnes they want to make in the new year.

  • My Riddle Book
    Description:
          Students read clues to discover words in the "ear" family.

  • Efectos Del Tiempo
    Description:
          On this Spanish page, students identify the effects of different kinds of weather.

  • Teacher's Guide: New at the Zoo

  • Parts of an Anteater
    Description:
          Students paste labels on a diagram of an anteater.

  • Name That Baby!
    Description:
          Students read a chart with tally marks and answer questions.

  • Fun With Friends
    Description:
          Students read a bar graph about activities that kids like to do with friends.

  • F is for Friend
    Description:
          Students find pictures that begin with the letter F.

  • Look at the Libraries
    Description:
          This page asks students to compare and contrast two traveling libraries.

  • Here Come the Books!
    Description:
          Students solve a maze to help the camel library deliver books to kids.

  • City Shapes Search
    Description:
          Students find and color different shapes in a picture.

  • Street Sign Shapes
    Description:
          Students cut out pictures of street signs and paste them into a chart next to the same shape.

  • Las Formas en la Ciudad
    Description:
          Students find and color different shapes in a picture.

  • Teacher's Guide: Big Picture October 2007

  • A Colorful Dance
    Description:
          Students learn the Spanish words for some colors.

  • A Tree In Each Season
    Description:
          Students paste pictures of trees in different seasons in the correct part of a seasons chart.

  • Lots of Leaves
    Description:
          Students graph leaves by shape.

  • Fight That Fire!
    Description:
          Students match sentences about a firefighter’s job to the equipment needed to do the job.

  • What’s the Word?
    Description:
          Students look at pictures to determine compound words.

  • Just the Opposite
    Description:
          Students match opposite pairs.

  • All Over the Doghouse
    Description:
          Students choose position words to finish sentences.

  • What Is the Question?
    Description:
          Students read facts from a news story and decide which question each fact answers.

  • Writing From the Past
    Description:
          Students read a chart with hieroglyphs and answer questions.

  • Locate the Landmarks
    Description:
          Students follow directions to find landmarks on a map of the United States.

  • Teacher's Guide: Fresh from the Farm

  • Teacher's Guide: Best of the Best

  • Compare the Candidates

  • Teacher's Guide: Who Will Be President?

  • Teacher's Guide: Obama Wins

  • Our New President

  • Our President
    Description:
          Students reflect on the new president and how he could make the country better.

  • Make a Smart Guess
    Description:
          Students practice estimating and counting.

  • A Bald Eagle’s Body
    Description:
          Students cut out labels and then paste them on a diagram of a bald eagle.

  • Which U.S. Symbol Is It?
    Description:
          Students connect the dots to see a symbol of the United States.

  • Book Bound
    Description:
          Students look at pictures of animals and decide in which book each would appear: a book about reptiles, a book about insects or a book about birds.

  • Teacher's Guide: Get Ready to Read!

  • Canada's Flag
    Description:
          Students look at a picture of Canada's flag and answer questions.

  • A Good Book
    Description:
          Students complete a graphic organizer about their favorite book.

  • C is for Canada
    Description:
          Students distinguish between words that begin with a hard c and those that begin with a soft c.

  • Bird or Fish
    Description:
          Students compare and contrast a pet bird to a pet fish.

  • Pets on the Go
    Description:
          Students choose words from a word bank to complete sentences about how different pets move.

  • Music Man
    Description:
          Students read a passage about Duke Ellington and then complete a matching activity.

  • Rhyme Time
    Description:
          Students complete rhymes about a jazz band.

  • Spanish reproducible: Ave o Pez?

  • Teacher's Guide: Time to Choose

  • Do You Want to Be President?
    Description:
          Students learn about the presidential nomination process with this sequencing activity.

  • Teacher's Guide: Good News for Cranes

  • Counting Cranes
    Description:
          Students look at a picture and record in tally marks the number of cranes flying, swimming, standing and eating.

  • Animals on the Move
    Description:
          Students classify animals by the way they migrate—by air, by land, or by sea.

  • Ocean Zones
    Description:
          Students read a diagram of ocean zones and answer questions.

  • Create a Creature
    Description:
          Students imagine and draw a new deep-sea creature.

  • Think Green!
    Description:
          Students categorize ideas into problems and solutions.

  • Make an Earth Day Book
    Description:
          Students make a book to share their ideas about the Earth.

  • Read a Rhyme
    Description:
          Students read a poem and answer comprehension questions.

  • Find the Rhymes
    Description:
          Students match pictures to their base sounds.

  • Help the Writer
    Description:
          Students read sentences and decide if they should end in question marks or periods.

  • You Can Draw Too!
    Description:
          Students follow the steps to draw a car.

  • Look at a Jingle Dress
    Description:
          Students read a diagram and answer questions.

  • All About Me!
    Description:
          Students make a book about themselves.

  • Teacher's Guide: Looking Back at 2008

  • Teacher's Guide: The President's Big Day

  • Teacher's Guide: The President's Big Day

  • Our President
    Description:
          Students reflect on the new president and how he could make the country better.

  • Make a Smart Guess
    Description:
          Students practice estimating and counting.

  • A Bald Eagle's Body
    Description:
          Students cut out labels and then paste them on a diagram of a bald eagle.

  • Which U.S. Symbol Is It?
    Description:
          Students connect the dots to see a symbol of the United States.

  • Help the Writer
    Description:
          Students read sentences and decide if they should end in question marks or periods.

  • You Can Draw Too!
    Description:
          Students follow the steps to draw a car.

  • Look at a Jingle Dress
    Description:
          Students read a diagram and answer questions.

  • All About Me!
    Description:
          Students make a book about themselves.

  • Calendar Riddles
    Description:
          Students solve riddles about months of the year.

  • Map the News
    Description:
          Students read find states where news events took place on a U.S. map.

  • My Favorite Holiday
    Description:
          Students write about their favorite holiday.

  • A New Holiday
    Description:
          Students create their own holiday using this graphic organizer.

  • Animals in Winter
    Description:
          Students sort pictures of animals by what they are doing to survive the winter--gathering food, migrating or hibernating.

  • Add the Animals
    Description:
          Students read and solve word problems about animals.

  • Dear Mr. President
    Description:
          Students use this organizer to write a friendly letter to the president.

  • More than a House
    Description:
          Students read a diagram of the White House lawn and complete and activity.

  • A Presidential Lunch
    Description:
          Students read the 2009 Inauguration lunch menu and answer questions.

  • Choose Good Foods
    Description:
          Students decide which foods are good to eat every day.

  • A Look at Lunch
    Description:
          Students read a diagram of a lunch tray to find out how each food helps their bodies.

  • How Mail Moves
    Description:
          Students sequence the steps a letter takes from the mailbox to its final destination.

  • Colorful Hearts
    Description:
          Students color hearts and then complete a graph that shows how many hearts there are in each color.

  • On the Money
    Description:
          Students read facts about Lincoln's life and draw a line to the picture on the penny that matches.

  • Two Great Presidents
    Description:
          Students read a chart comparing George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and answer questions.

  • If I Were President

  • Robots Rule!
    Description:
          Use this graphic organizer to support students' comprehension of this week's cover story.

  • Writing a News Story
    Description:
          Use this activity to teach students about the features found in most news stories.

  • Robot History
    Description:
          Have students read a time line about the history of robots.

  • Writing a News Story
    Description:
          Use this activity to teach students about the features found in most news stories.

  • Teacher's Guide: A Wild Job

  • Teacher's Guide: A Wild Job

  • Wonderful Water
    Description:
          Students draw pictures to illustrate ideas about water.

  • Who Is Saving Water?
    Description:
          Students read scenarios and decide who is wasting water and who is saving it.