Starfall Activity Index

Ernie Barnes, athlete turned painter, paints pictures that tell stories. Also includes practice with two-syllable r-controlled vowel words.

Native American Dorothy Strait paints pictures of her culture. Also includes practice with the diphthong "ow".

Follow instructions and use rhyming words to find magical fun! Customize your magician and make magic while practicing word family rhymes and high frequency words.

Make your very own magician and customize your outfit! Choose capes, wands, roller skates, hats and monkey assistants!

Label your magician! Practice basic vocabulary by labeling your magician.

Say these magic words with me: How Now Brown Cow What happens when you tap on the Magic Hat?

Say these magic words with me: Glider Slider Little Spider What happens when you tap on the Magic Shell?

Stories about classic composers and what inspired their beautiful music.

Beethoven wrote music even after he became deaf! Also includes practice with ordinals and ASL.

Chopin wrote music inspired by a dog and a cat. Also includes practice with the rime -ing.

Great American composer, Scott Joplin, wrote Ragtime music. Also includes practice with present and past tenses.

Mozart wrote a sonata when he was only 8 years old! Includes practice with the rime -ay.

Offenbach wrote music to make you dance and smile. Includes practice with the rime -ump.

Learn about music from The Nutcracker and Swan Lake. Also includes practice with the diphthong "oy".

Listen to Beethoven's First through Ninth symphonies.

Listen to Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag," "Pineapple Rag," "Entertainer Rag" and "Ragtime Dance."

Listen to Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Reed Flutes," Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy," "Chinese Dance," and "Waltz of the Flowers."

This selection of four poems offers students the opportunity to learn and appreciate the English language as used as an art form. Students can click and listen to each word individually as they read these poems.

If I Could Touch the Sky By: Natasha Josefowitz “If I Could Touch the Sky” is a magical journey into the heavens where the clouds, the moon and the stars are suddenly within reach.

My Hiding Place by Natasha Josefowitz Do you have a special hiding place all your own? Somewhere you can hide from the rest of the world and pretend to your heart's content? “My Hiding Place” invites you into to a hiding place where your imagination unlocks the door to a secret world of make-believe.