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Science....and Father's Day

June 15th 2010 14:09
Incorporate science lessons into your summer fun. Using art materials to teach science is a sneaky way to slip abstract ideas into your child, making them easier to grasp. Let these ideas double as Father's Day gifts or activities for dad to do with their kids.

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Grass Head Characters


Consider making a grass head character for Father's Day!
Make a whole family, mom, siblings...dog?
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Matilda by Roald Dahl Activities

May 17th 2010 00:02
Matilda by Roald Dahl is a children’s classic. Many students will have already seen the movie by the time they reach your classroom, but that is not a reason to avoid this book. Roald Dahl did a great service to elementary school teachers when he wrote Matilda. The teaching opportunities abound in this book.

Matilda is a tiny genius who is stuck with a trashy, overbearing family. Her parents ignore her completely when they aren't being horribly nasty to her. She learns to take care of herself and cleverly manages to get back at them a few times. Entering school doesn't turn out to be the wonderful learning institution she might have hoped though. Faced with a enormous and evil headmistress, Matilda uses her superior abilities in this delightful story.


Matilda by Roald Dahl is a great read-aloud book for an elementary school classroom. Imaginative and exciting, the story will engage your class. This article gives instructions on creating a comprehensive book report that incorporates vocabulary, reading comprehension and writing.
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Incredible Paintings of Felix Clousseau-Creative Writing Lesson Plans

May 12th 2010 00:51
Jon Agee wrote and illustrated, The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau, a charming story full of surprises.


Jon Agee brings the old adage, "Art imitates life," alive with surprising twists in the picture book, The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau. Introduce your class to a book about an unknown artist and let them figure out the clues shown in the illustrations. This book needs to be read in such a way that everyone in the class can see the pictures on each page.

Artists from all over Paris gather to show their art at the Royal Palace. An unknown painter named Felix Clousseau also brings his art piece to the show. Everyone laughed at his work until the painting, "quacked." All of a sudden, Felix Clousseau became famous around Paris.

Trouble began as his paintings
came to life. Sadly, Felix was put in prison because of all the chaos this caused. He was eventually set free when one of his paintings made him a hero.

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Coraline

November 20th 2009 01:26
My daughter loves the animated movie Coraline so loudly announced that it is Coraline week in our house giving me about five minutes notice to organise some activities for us to do.

Thankfully Coraline.com came to our aid and we were able to button eye images of both myself and my daughter as well as create online button flowers. There was also a fun print image in which the circus mice could also spell out my daughter's name.

We sat down to watch Coraline the movie for about the tenth time and if she was a little older I am sure she would enjoy the original novel from which the film was adapted from.

We also discovered a website which featured numerous Coraline pictures to colour and set out on a counting exercise to find out exactly how many windows and doors we had in our house.

Luckily I had some buttons set aside for just such a crafting exercise and we drew some dolls and created our very own button eyed dolls and button gardens.

It is amazing what you can come up with in five minutes if you put your mind to it!



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Cranberry Thanksgiving

October 2nd 2009 18:39
Cranberry Thanksgiving written by Wende and Harry Devlin in 1971 is one of those time honoured books that lends itself to family traditions - in the case of Cranberry Thanksgiving it is Cranberry Bread.

Cranberry Thanksgiving is the story of a young girl named Maggie who lives with her Grandmother near a cranberry bog in New England. The book includes some interesting characters and colourful illustrations and the story takes some interesting twists and turns, demonstrating that looks can be deceiving. It even includes Grandmother’s Famous Cranberry Bread recipe for you to bake at home.

DLTK features a fun Thanksgiving mini book for kindergarten children to colour as well as Thanksgiving crafts to do including pilgrims, turkeys and pumpkins. And those in need of a pumpkin template then look no further - Preschool Express features pumpkins in three sizes for you to copy and cut out for your crafting needs.

Crayola features a Happy Thanksgiving page to colour as well as a fun turkey craft.

The fun dolls Eddie and Amy which often come to our aid also feature Thanksgiving clothing and for those doubly organised, Halloween costumes as well.

It is is a time for giving thanks and hopefully the poems over at Thanksgiving Day manage to convey the spirit of the holiday.

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Don't Discount Second Hand Stores

September 18th 2009 17:35
Investigating a new area to live, I started checking out all the stores - second hand stores included and noticed what bargains they had to offer particularly in the way of kids educational computer games and books. We managed to make some great savings and many of the books and cds were priced at $2 or less!

The Little Bear Preschool Thinking Adventure normally sells for between $10 and $15 and we picked it up for $1. A definite bargain


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Speakaboos

June 2nd 2009 02:38
The Speakaboo website served a great purpose this week as it gave us an online version of The Ugly Duckling to read and view as well as a follow on activity, but the site itself holds an interesting premise.

Coming soon, as the site announces, is a record your own story section which will allow kids and parents to record their own voices reading (or singing!) their favorite story, song, or nursery rhyme. Anything that aids in the improvement and creation of kids wanting to read or listen to stories is a great idea.
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Free Online Children's Books

April 13th 2009 02:26
As an expat abroad, I am always searching for new stories to share with my daughter.

The Children's Library is a non-profit organisation offering a wide variety of free paper books to be read online including stories such as Axle The Freeway Cat, Blinky Bill, Cinderella and Mother Goose


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Five In A Row

April 1st 2009 01:49
Five In A Row is a unique program which is ideal for home schooling or extra learning and combines children's literature with creative lesson plans involving social studies, language, art, applied maths and science.

The main program is designed for young children from 4-8 although the Before Five In A Row, Beyond Five In A Row and Above and Beyond Five In A Row caters from 2 up until the ages of 12 onwards


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