Fun Activities
Puzzles
Jan 30th
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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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Thematic Units
Dec 27th
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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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Smartboard Lessons
Dec 23rd
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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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Reading Activities
Dec 18th
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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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Reader’s Theater
Dec 16th
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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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Memory Games
Dec 9th
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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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Mazes
Dec 6th
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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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Math Activities
Dec 2nd
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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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Matching Games
Dec 1st
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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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Teaching Centers
Nov 30th
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Centers, they’re not just for breakfast anymore… or just language. Check our growing repertoire of teacher’s center activities in different subjects. See if they’re something you can use to help you get your point across in a more interesting fashion.
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