All Blog Posts Tagged 'activities' (5)

Games can make learning math an enjoyable activity rather than an educational one. It will help your child to learn basic counting skills.

Teaching math to your child can be easy if you add some fun to it. Instead of sticking with paper and pencil, try to include math in your child’s daily activities to make it a great learning experience. There are many interesting ways to make your child engaged and excited about learning the numbers.

Here are 5 fun…

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Added by Lynda Way on March 27, 2018 at 12:00am — No Comments

7 Extracurricular Activities to Discover Your Kids’ Potential

Extracurricular activities are a great way for young kids to develop social skills, learn more about something that they love and stay active. From gymnastics to art classes to sports, you are sure to find something will interest your little one.

Gymnastics.
Dance.
Sports.
Swimming.
Martial arts.
Educational classes.
Music and creative arts.…

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Added by Dorothy Hastings on September 15, 2014 at 2:00am — No Comments

PaperSlide Videos get kids Communicating, Collaborating and Creating!

As a fun activity in the short time we had between the end of PSSA's and the beginning of Marking Period 4, I challenged my 7th grade Mechanicsburg Middle School Pre-Algebra kids to research and create paperslide videos relating to a topic they had ALREADY learned during the year. Prior to beginning, I showed the students what a paperslide video was, how it was made and what it should look like by USING paperslide examples.

I allowed the students to create their own groups of 2 or 3…

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Added by Michael Morret on March 31, 2012 at 5:35am — No Comments

EarthDay idea: Planetfesto.org--educators discuss experience/hints

A collaborative, international art project to build a virtual ribbon around the world. The ribbon is made up of 6" pieces with a photo or drawing of why you love the earth, a statement of love, and pledges of personal action. We want to plant the subversive thought: do we need a new relationship with the planet? Contributions from 54 countries and 8,000 individuals--many from kids and classes. Takes about 2 minutes, and the site is loaded with ideas, photos students can use, and lesson plans.… Continue

Added by Nancy Raff on March 18, 2009 at 5:04pm — No Comments

Creating Life Long Learners

So we went to the computer lab today for 1/2 an hour and I gave them this assignment.

Visit http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks and check out any book or author page you'd like. Then write down at least FIVE new things you learned from visiting those pages.

The kids were like, "We can visit ANY author on this page?" and, "We can look at ANY book site on… Continue

Added by Michelle TeGrootenhuis on February 17, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments