Try this fun game on a blustery day with your elementary-aged students!
Use an old newspaper, ruler, scissors, glue and paper to hold an old-fashioned scavenger hunt with a twist. See who can find and cut out the largest letters or numerals. Challenge players to find the longest and shortest columns, the biggest and smallest headline, [...]
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If your young or inexperienced reader has difficulty deciding if the letter is “b” or “d,” here’s a quick and easy tip! This will work for students who know the sounds of the two letters. Have the learner make a fist with each hand and hold both thumbs straight up (like a “thumb’s [...]
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Every family needs holiday traditions to bind it together. This year, how about brightening up your routines with a new idea? Try doing something different this season to gather your family together. You might want to start using an Advent Calendar. This is a daily calendar with treats and activities that [...]
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I’ve had a number of parents recently who are struggling with the idea that their child is not a proficient reader. They hear the child read out loud, and because few errors of word recognition are occurring, they believe that the student is reading well. However, when asked to answer questions about the [...]
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Thanksgiving is the perfect season for this activity, but you can try it any time at all. Teach your children to cherish the good gifts that their lives bring by teaching them to write down the blessings. Get a notebook and just start a journal. This one, though, is not for venting [...]
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Give your student extra practice using quotation marks with this homework helper: Give the child the comic page and have him or her write the words of the characters out as conversations. Proper quote marks will be needed, as well as indentations to mark new paragraphs where new speakers are talking and correct punctuation [...]
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If you have young children, you know that the wait for the holidays can be torture for their young hearts. Here are two simple activities that you can use to help them bide their time until the Big Day.
First of all, create an Advent Chain. You remember how to make the construction paper [...]
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The holidays are coming around even sooner than we like to think. You don’t need to put learning on hold during the Christmas season! Grab the free e-book, “Sprinkle Learning on Your Holiday,” by signing up for the Learning Nook News. This free ebook is packed with suggestions to keep the kids [...]
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If you have a young reader that you’re trying to motivate to plow through more books, try a giant gameboard wall display! On a bulletin board or even on a plain space of wall, use paper or poster board to create a giant trail game. Colorful paper works best, but white will do [...]
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Use newspapers, scissors, and glue to practice math problems! Give your child sale ads from your paper and have him/her find numerals to cut out from the page. Challenge the child to glue them to a paper to make math problems and their answers. Can the child make a problem with an [...]
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