Category Archives: Fun Activities

Teaching Videos App

We are thrilled to announce the brand new Teaching Videos App for iPad and iPhone created by Have Fun Teaching! The Teaching Videos App is now available for FREE on the iTunes App Store for both iPad and iPhone. Teachers, Parents, and Kids will LOVE this new app which is a perfect addition to any classroom, homeschool, or road trip with kids!

The Teaching Videos App by Have Fun Teaching includes fun and engaging educational videos for teachers, parents, and kids. There are two different ways to play this app: Game Mode and Learning Mode. Your kids and students will have so much fun exploring the Alphabet Music Videos, Counting Music Videos, and Shape Music Videos, collecting tokens when they watch videos, unlocking new videos, and singing along with their favorite Have Fun Teaching songs! In the settings menu, teachers and parents will have access to each child’s video history, including their Most Watched and Recently Watched videos so you can keep track of their progress.

The Teaching Videos App is the perfect tool for teaching Alphabet, Phonics, Counting, Skip Counting, Shapes, Geometry, and More!

Puzzles

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Puzzles engage the brain by making you look for patterns and order in randomness. They’re also a bit fun. Puzzles can go from simple to amazingly complex. Now we don’t have the really tough ones on our site, but we do have some quick, fun puzzles for primary grades. As always, they’re free!

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Puzzles

Thematic Units

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It’s always nice to have cross-subject correlations on a topic. Studying space? Read about it, do math problems about it, study the history of space exploration, do PE activities like the moon hop… the possibilities are endless. We’ve put together a few thematic units for your reading pleasure, or maybe you just want to put some of our materials into your existing plans. Try today!

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Thematic Units

Smartboard Lessons

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Smartboards are invading! Do you have yours yet? I’ve been using mine for about 5 years now, and I don’t see how I got along without it it before. Yeah, I still use markers, but the smartboard allows me to save stuff and reuse it and review it. We’ve put together a few resources for you, for free as always. Download them and check them out!

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Smartboard Lessons

Reading Activities

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Reading is so much more than just words on a page. It’s the pictures that go with the words, the mental images we make to coincide with our reading, and the activities we do to add meaning to the reading. We have some free activities to help you give meaning to your students’ reading. Have a look!

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Reading Activities

Reader’s Theater

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Reader’s Theater encourages students to act out their favorite parts of a story, or to think of a new ending to a story to act out. It takes creativity, movement, and teamwork. It also requires language and comprehension. It’s a great way to add concrete understanding to a difficult passage. We have some ready-made resources to help you get started.

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Reader’s Theater

Memory Games

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Mix and Math and test your memory! It’s like the shell game but without gambling… because that’s frowned upon in school. But seriously, matching and memory games are great for developing the mind. We all used to play memory games and do mazes as kids. Nowadays kids push their thumbs around a game controller and have a hard time doing much else. Help them flex their mental muscles!

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Memory Games

Mazes

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Mazes are great fun. They help with problem solving, spatial relationships, and a whole bunch of other high-level thinking skills. I always like letting my students do them as morning fun work, along with puzzles. It gets them in the mood for doing math. Want to try?

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Mazes

Math Activities

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Mazes and math activities… as always, for free. Notice a pattern here? We offer you everything we have for free, but don’t mind making it easier on you if you want to buy a cd collection or a dvd. Anyway, we’ve been working on some math activities to share with you.

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have fun teaching

Math Activities

Matching Games

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Matching games for free! Come and get ’em! Go see what we have. Your students will thank you. Matching is a great way to check vocabulary understanding, phonics sounds, grouping and classification, and a dozen other things. It’s a key skill across all grades, and it’s also a fun one. How often can you say that?

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Matching Games