Games can be the perfect tool to introduce and teach social emotional learning skills to kids and young adults. These are the skills that help kids become more self-aware, develop positive relationships, show empathy towards others, manage emotions, use self-control, resolve conflicts, and make posi
30 back to school bingo boards to print for free. Use this class set to play a fun back to school bingo game and celebrate the start of school.
These following direction activities are directionality activities that can help kids learn directions or spatial concepts such as left, right, up, down, and compass directions (north, south, east, and west) with a motor component. This hands-on learning activity really gets the kiddos moving and learning! We’ve shared directionality activities before that help kids navigate and ... Read more
Do you and I run in the same circles? Doubt it. Although we do share at least one circle: teaching. Right? And if you and I ha...
Have a child aspiring to be a superhero? I definitely do! The plans have been in the making for quite some time actually. *wink* I love kids with imaginations! Plus, using themes that kids are interested in makes learning so much more fun! Last week, we shared our Superhero Action Dice and today I have a free printable superhero graphing activity for you.
Loops are a command programmers use to repeat a part of their code. Create a fun fitness program for the fuzz family using loops in your instructions.
Children can learn about the continents with this free printable set that makes learning fun and interactive. After our Solar System Activities I figured we needed...
4 Games to Help Kids Think Critically about Vocabulary Guest Post by Rachael Parlett from Classroom Game Nook Blog.
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This cooperative learning strategy has been around for decades, but how well do you really know it?
There are several benefits to using PowerPoint games in the classroom. They provide an opportunity to model an activity or a game (especially with large classes), they can be fun to play, they are …
This post features ways to use Plickers in your class that can be used across grade levels. Plickers is FREE for teachers to use!
Today we have another great unplugged coding activity on the blog! When first getting started with learning to code, it’s best to start completely unplugged. Screen-free coding activities are perfect to teach coding fundamentals. Kids
Put your child behind the screen when they learn the basic principles of coding. These Coding for Kids resources have an option for everyone!
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Hello, friends! It's Christmas break for me and I'm taking a few minutes to plan ahead for the new year! Last year our first graders hosted a Tournament of Books and it was a huge success so we're getting ready to host one again this year! The first thing I did was put up this huge bracket in the main hallway of our school. It generated a ton of buzz around the school, especially before we shared any details about what we were actually planning! The Brown Bag Teacher has bracket printables free on Teachers Pay Teachers. They are perfect for getting your bracket ready. To build the bracket, I started from the middle and worked out on each side, using black duct tape for the lines. It wasn't a quick project, but it turned out perfectly! Once all the kiddos were making guesses about my giant hallways display, we collected nominations. Each first grader nominated a favorite book, which gave us about 70 nominees. It was surprisingly easily to narrow them down to 16 choices for our bracket since we had lots and lots of the same choices, plus a few that were easy to toss (a few guided reading titles made it into the mix haha). Once we filled in our top 16 books, the students filled out their own brackets. I printed blank brackets from Print Your Own Brackets and wrote in our selections. Then, we carefully went through the choices and the students filled in a winner for each match up. This also helped them to understand how the bracket itself worked and promoted lots of debate about their favorites! Now that we had our top 16 choices, everyone needed to make sure they read the books! We read many of the nominees aloud to our classes, but we also used QR codes with iPads in our listening centers to make the books accessable to all our students. Then, each week, we conducted a vote. We created a Google Form with the choices and then posted a QR code that linked to the form. Students used iPads to scan the QR code then enter their choices. It was quick for them to complete and easy for us since we didn't need to prepare or count 70 paper ballots each week! Even though only our first graders were voting, the whole school was eager to see who the winner would be and looked forward to seeing the winners each week! Our tournament came down to a Crayon vs Crayon final! The Day the Crayons Came Back was the winner, "because it has glow in the dark!" and two of my kiddos actually managed perfect brackets! This year we're planning further ahead, so the whole school is getting involved! Have you ever hosted a Tournament of Books? I'd love to hear about it in the comments!
It can be very overwhelming, especially for my struggling readers, to focus on using multiple reading comprehension strategies with a piece of text. For this reason, I always take time in at least the first
It's time for some fun geography hands-on learning! I love mapping activities and have put together a fun printable set to build a city map. This fun printable set is 15 pages long and includes 5 different
Are you looking to inspire your pre- or beginning writers to learn about subjects that interest them? Here's an easy way for your youngest students to create a small book style report that they can use to show what they've learned.
20 Halloween Drama Games | Drama Notebook Lesson Plans and Plays for Kids and Teens
Coding for kids has been a growing trend in the field of education in the last few years. Many teachers are interested in teaching their students how to code but are often unsure where to st…
The best brain breaks songs for your preschool or pre-k kids. Your kids will have a blast moving and grooving to these fun songs!
Games are a great way to help students practice vocabulary. For newcomers that are just learning English, they are a fun way to practice basic Tier 1 terms. For students at higher language levels and native speakers, they are great ways to practice content-specific vocabulary. It is important to review vocabulary words with ELLs before
This Spring Term I was invited to work with staff at Heymann School, Nottinghamshire, who were preparing for Science Technology project. My role was to share and support in ways their early years p…
Make your own computer coding game without a computer. Learn basic computer coding skills like algorithms with a DIY computer coding game!
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FREE printable shape roll & color math activity for preschool and pre-k to use during small group time and shape recognition!
On the blog today we are sharing another awesome screen free coding activity. We love designing unplugged coding activities that use objects you can easily find around your house. That’s why we’ve previously designed unplugged
Silent Response Cards can be used for ANY SUBJECT at ANY GRADE LEVEL! These nonverbal response cards get all students engaged and eliminate frustration from students waiting to be called on...they all participate! These cards are perfect for warm-up activities, subject matter review, transition times or ice-breaker activities. Silent Response Cards can also be used as a quick pre-assessment of upcoming concepts, or post-assessment tool for concepts just learned. Silent Response Cards also help improve students’ oral comprehension skills as they have to listen to the teacher’s question and then formulate a response. These cards are called “Silent Response Cards” because students do not need to talk while participating in this activity. SEE THE PREVIEW FILE FOR A CLOSER LOOK! Included in this file: -Detailed directions with photos of how to prepare and assemble these cards (great parent volunteer job) -“How to Use Silent Response Cards” with photos and examples of teacher questions. -Four different template options for each set of 28 cards. Each Response Card page has 4 cards printed per page to save paper, including a blank card template for you to write in your own response. You can choose some or all of the Silent Response Cards you want to use to make the perfect set for your students. I highly recommend laminating your Silent Response Cards (my set has lasted me eight years of teaching…and still going strong!). ***Just a friendly reminder that this product is for A SINGLE USER ONLY. That means that copying or sharing any part of this product with another teacher, grade level, school, department, district, etc…is strictly prohibited. Inspired Elementary® products may not be used for commercial use, including platforms such as Outschool. You have the option to purchase multiple licenses (at a discount) for each additional person/classroom with whom you wish to share this product. This item is a digital download and is nonrefundable. © All rights reserved. Erin Lane. www.Inspired Elementary.com
Learn how to play the Kaboom game in your classroom to make practicing math facts, sight words, and more a blast for your students!
A Fun I have Who Has Learning Game for Kids! I have an apple! Who has a pear? With these free printable blank I have Who Has Game Templates, you can create any kind of learning
