A complete guide to Space Camp USA in Huntsville, Alabama, including what U. S. Space Camp is, what you get to do at Space Camp, who Space Camp is for, and more!
Travelling to Poland from all corners of the world, Auschwitz survivors will gather alongside world leaders to remember the 6million Jewish victims of the Nazis' programme of industrial genocide.
Whether you're planning a group activity, team building exercise, kid’s party or youth camp, spruce it up with these 9 fun games with blindfolds?
The four corners icebreaker game is one of my favorites! It's quick and easy. It will get people up and moving. Read the full directions here.
12 Fun warm up games and bootcamp ideas to add more variety to your group fitness classes. Try these fun warm up games today for instant fun.
Here is a silly drawing games that is a lot of fun for kids to play. In this drawing game, you use dice to decide what parts of the drawing you will draw. We have included a face drawing game and a landscape drawing game. This is a lot of fun and it helps children who might not be able to draw freely and creatively...this will help them draw more freely and creatively. This will also increase silliness.
Make a Photon Flower That Lights Up When You Water It With Lemon Juice: Have you ever made a battery out of a lemon? If you poke a copper wire into a lemon and poke a zinc-coated nail in next to it, you can measure with a voltmeter that the lemon produces between 0.5 and 1 volt. The copper is the "cathode", or positive …
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Travel + Leisure presents the It List, our annual round-up of the top hotel openings and renovations this year.
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This back to school "snowball" fight activity will have your students getting up and out of their seats moving around the room to get to know each other.
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The colour of darkness: Vivid pictures of first Nazi concentration camps give chilling insight into the dawn of the Holocaust
20 family game night ideas. A must-try for every family. Most of these games are Minute To Win it games and require no preparation. Fun to play!
Vocal Warm-Ups Purpose: Understand how to control your voice and take care of this vital acting tool. Although there are literally hundreds of different vocal exercises, we are going to focus on a few that we use in the department. Perform these exercises before you begin your work as an actor. ________________________________________________________________________________ EXERCISE 3 - Articulation (Definition: the formation of clear and distinct sounds in speech. Learning Goal - for the student to be able to find a clarity in their speech and to begin building better pronunciation skills. FOCUS - Tongue-Twisters NOTE: This is a warm-up and you should say these lightly, but in a good tempo. Never go faster than you are able to go physically. GOAL: Keep the clarity of each word in the phrase! *********************** Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. That's a peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked. However, if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked? A tutor who tooted the flute, Tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, "Is it easier to toot, Or to tutor two tooters to toot?"* Bobby Bibbit bought a bat. Bobby Bibbit bought a ball with the bat. Bob banged the ball with the bat and banged the bat against a wall. Amidst the mists and fiercest frosts, With barest wrists and stoutest boasts, He thrusts his fists against the post, And still insists he sees the ghosts. _________________________________________
In the Great Battle of Pyttipanna in 1974, no camp was proclaimed victor. Which means, it is up to you to decide what you want in this great dish.
This fun science experiment is simple to set up, and seems just like magic! In fact, you can easily turn the blow up a balloon in a bottle science experiment into a magic trick if you don't show your kids how the experiment is done. Kids will love repeating this experiment over and over. It's
The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of millions of Jews, Romani people, political dissidents and homosexuals by the German Nazi regime from 1933-1945.
Free colouring and paper craft activity downloads. I started creating these paper craft and colouring activities for my kids during covid lockdowns in 2020 and thought others might like them too...
Using wordless shorts in language therapy gives you so many options and your clients will LOVE it! Links to the best wordless videos!
A step by step guide on how to throw a throwing knife - From the best beginner knives, the right stance and grip, and what throwing techniques to use.
Propeller-Powered Car - Engineering Project for Kids: Fast and fun, the propeller car is a hands-on lesson in air-powered thrust and inertia. Small, lightweight wheels have less inertia than big ones, which lets the car reach its maximum speed quickly! Just wind it up and watch it race across the floo…
This gluten free naan bread is made extra soft and tender with yogurt and butter or ghee. Make the dough ahead, fry it in minutes!
Singapore awoke to a rude shock on Aug 9, 1965. At 10am, a voice on the radio revealed that the city state had been turfed out of the Malaysian federation and would "forever be a sovereign, democratic and independent nation".
You will need * An empty soda can * blown-up balloon * A head of hair What to do 1. Place the can on its side on a flat smooth surface like a table or a smooth floor. 2. Rub the blown up balloon back and forth through your hair really fast. 3. Now the …
Haunting photographs that have come to light after 70 years show Jewish men, women and children being expelled from their homes in Lublin, Poland, in 1941.
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In the north of Ireland, soda farls are the Irish soda bread. My Grandmother spent the seventy years of her adult life cooking this wonderful bread on an old-fashioned griddle, before serving it up still warm, butter melting slowly over the top.
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I'm not sure about you, but sometimes when the seasons change I need to get away and escape... to reconfigure things. Primitive I know, sounds a little weird, but that's just how I seem to roll. So husband Timothy O and I packed up Frankie the caravan and hit the road for a few nights, camping by the beach, near Yamba in New South Wales.
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A collection of ukulele exercises to build hand dexterity and help you warm up. Improve your fretting and picking hand coordination with these drills and stretches.
A South African sweet treat, perfect for tea-time!
Hey Ya'll! Do your kids love to learn by playing games? What if I told you that you could increase your students vocabulary by playing games that take 20 minutes or less? Vocabulary is something that is highly stressed in my district. It seems like each year, more and more pressure is put on us to increase students vocabulary. Today I'm here to share with you 4 easy games that you can implement into your class to increase vocabulary and make learning fun AND engaging! Kids should get excited about learning. Implementing games into our daily routine helps increase their learning when they don't even know it. All of these activities that I'm about to share can be used in a whole or small group setting. First up is Heads Down, Vocab Up! This is a game I like to have my kids play when I have a few minutes to kill before moving onto the next subject or when their little brains just need a break. It's super simple. Does your class like to play "heads down, thumbs up" or some call it "heads up, 7 up"? Mine do! Heads Down, Vocab Up! is just like that only using word cards. You can use any type of vocabulary cards you'd like. We play using sight words, compound words, contractions, academic vocabulary and more. Here is how to play: Pick 3-4 students to be it. Give each student picked a vocabulary card. Turn off the lights and the rest of the class puts their head down (NO PEEKING!) and their thumb up. The students chosen go around the room and pick someone by touching their thumb. When the teacher turns the lights on, those picked stand up and try to guess who picked them. Rather than calling out the students name, they must call out the vocabulary word that student is holding. If they get it right, they get to trade places and be it. If they get it wrong, they sit back down. Then the next round begins. You can also have your students tell the meaning of the word, use it in a sentence or give a synonym. This way it can be easily differentiated for various learners. When using academic vocabulary cards, I like have them say the word and their own meaning of the word. This is a simple review that can be done in 5 minutes or stretched out into a whole group lesson. Up next is a little game I like to call Word Speed! Word Speed is quick game that we play daily throughout the week. I do this with vocabulary and grammar skills mostly. All you need is some chart paper and makers. You could easily laminate chart paper and use dry erase markers to make it reusable. What you'll see below is bulletin paper from our workroom. Here is how you play... 1. Split your class up into 2 teams. (You can do more if you'd like) 2. Tape a piece of chart paper on opposite sides of the room for each team. You want them far enough apart where the other team can't see the others paper. 3. Write the topic you are covering at the top of the chart paper. 4. Time them for 1-2 minutes (sometimes this will be longer such as 3-4 minutes until everyone has a turn, but they think they only have one minute). 5. Each person write a vocabulary word and passes the marker to the next person. They are not allowed to talk while doing this. (The picture above, they had to write a pair of synonyms. They cannot write something that has already been written.) 6. They have 1-2 minutes to write as many words as they can. 7. When the time is up, the person holding the marker brings it to you. 8. I give each team one point for having the correct words. They race every day. On Monday-Wednesday, I do not count off for spelling. On Thursday and Friday, if a word is misspelled, I do not count it. This helps with preventing tie-breakers. 9. At the end of the week, the team with most points is the Word Speed Champ for the week! We play with a new piece of paper everyday so that they are able to use the same words. On Tuesday, I use the back of the page that they wrote on, on Monday. I kept a tally of the points on the board. I found that they loved this game so much, that they would go home and ask their families for words to use. Once the kids got into the routine of playing for various concepts, they would always ask if it was Word Speed time! Now lets talk about a class favorite that I use for multiple concepts. This little game is a BIG DEAL! It's called KABOOM! I blogged about this concept awhile back. You can read about it here. I'll do a quick recap. All you need to create KABOOM is popsicle sticks, a permanent marker, and a cup. Here's how to play: Color one tip of each popsicle stick. This end sticks out of the cup. Write a vocabulary word on each stick. You also need 5-10 KABOOM sticks. (For my academic vocabulary sets, I put 2 sets of vocabulary words that are 8 words each, and then 5 Kaboom! sticks. For sight words, I do a full set and then 10 KABOOM sticks. Place all the sticks in a cup with the colored tip sticking up. Students play rock, paper, scissors to see who goes first. The first player draws a stick and reads the word. For academic vocabulary they must read the word correctly and tell the meaning or use it in a sentence. This is good for differentiation in your groups. If the student reads the word and uses it in correctly they get to keep their stick. If they read it incorrectly or use it incorrectly, the stick must go back in the cup. If they draw a stick that says KABOOM! They have to put all of their sticks back into the cup. This is a BIG DEAL ya'll! The player with the most sticks at the end of the game wins! I like to play KABOOM with academic vocabulary at the beginning of each small group. I can easily differentiate each question I ask based on each student to fit their needs. We also play whole group using sight words, parts of speech, and for various math concepts. This is a favorite during stations as well. I keep all of my games set up in baskets and the kids can easily grab a cup when they have time. All the other games I have created are stored and labeled in ziploc bags. Last but most certainly not least is my personal favorite, Beach Ball Vocabulary! I originally started playing this game with math facts and learned that I could use it for all different subjects. You can read my math fact post here. All you need is a beach ball and a maker. Write vocabulary words all over the ball in a random order. Here is how to play: Have students form a large circle around the room while you or another student stands in the middle. GENTLY toss the beach ball to a student. Whatever word their thumb (you can pick right or left) lands on, they must tell the definition, use it in a sentence, or give an example of. Then they GENTLY toss the ball back to you and you throw it to another student. The example shown above was played with antonyms. Students had to say the antonym of the word one of their thumbs landed on. For academic vocabulary, I have all of unit 1 words written on a ball, all of unit 2 words written on a ball, etc. This way they are getting review of words we have already learned. All of the games show above can be used with multiple concepts such as academic vocabulary, synonyms/antonyms, prefixes/suffixes, compound words, contractions, parts of speech, sight words and so much more. Use them cross-curricular for math concepts or science and social studies. I hope you can incorporate at least one of these activities into your classroom! My kids love them and I hope yours do too! Have a great day!
One of my favorite things to do is create DIY instruments with kids. It's easier than you think and provides hours of exploring music with kids.
