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Educational Games for Teens

July 14th 2010 02:49
Capture a teens attention and help them learn and retain information with games. (The following ideas are often just as fun and challenging for adults) If it has been a long time since you played a game with your teen, give these a whirl. They are a far cry from mind-numbing chutes and ladders!
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chess isn't the only game that challenges ( thankfully!)
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Play With Me

January 25th 2010 18:34
Following on from our animal theme we have been reading the charming book, Play With Me written by Marie Hall Ets. It features a little girl who ventures outside to play with the wild animals only to discover that at first they are too frightened to go near her. The text and pictures are charming in this book and is one of my daughter's favourites.


Homeschool Share provided us with some book related suggestions, the favourite one of my daughter being the Guess Who Animal game.

We stumbled upon a fun birdcage craft and my partner and daughter even built a birdhouse and feeder from a $5 craft pack we discovered in a supermarket.

For the younger children we found a dot painting frog as well as an alphabet dot to dot.

For those that like fingerpainting here were a couple of animal fingerpainting ideas which gave us some inspiration.

For turtle lovers, here is a fun turtle craft as well as an easy turtle to colour.

And let's not forget the paper chain snake.

A book like this provides lots of opportunities for animal spotting, although as it is winter at the moment, our animal spotting is diminished slighly with only some squirrels and a few birds - however better than nothing.

Springtime is a great time of year to visit this story however any time of the year is great to read inspirational stories to your children.
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Animal Classification Cards

January 5th 2010 03:27
My daughter and I had an enjoyable afternoon reading some animal classification cards - some which I discovered on the internet (see previous post) and others which I created along the same vein. She enjoyed animal spotting in her books and then locating the cards with a random fact that was placed on the bottom.

Fun yes - educational - double yes. Win win for sure!

We also continued on with the Australian theme and looked at Australia on the map, sang Waltzing Matilda and read one of my favourite books from my childhood, The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek.
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Katy No Pocket

December 26th 2009 19:37
We are going to have some fun with Katy No Pocket over the next week or so. Katy is a kangaroo, born without a pocket and is struggling to carry her baby like all the other animals in the countryside. Katy, desperate for a pocket, goes to the city in search of one and meets up with a kindly construction worker who helps her out.



We are going to make an easy pocket apron for my daughter to wear as featured in the story and based on the Fold and Learn ideas provided by Five In A Row. As my daughter and I are originally from Australia, we are going to enjoy this one in particular. We have seen many kangaroos in real life so while we are not going in search of any (a bit difficult in Canada), we are going to attempt painting them in aboriginal dot art style. To carry on the aboriginal theme, we are also going to make our own didgeridoo craft.

A kangaroo can jump at least 9-10 metres so we are also going to attempt to measure our own kangaroo jumps. And we are going to discuss the other animals featured in the book and the habitats in which they live.

We are also going to improve our tool knowledge with the help of these cards as well as this easy but fun pocket sorting activity.

For extra assistance, here is a link which shows some animal classification cards for Katy No Pocket as well as other Five In A Row stories.
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Learning Basic Language Skills

February 3rd 2009 07:40
My daughter is a huge Dora The Explorer fan and needless to say her basic Spanish skills are pretty good because of the programme.

Not as popular as Dora, but equally as cute, is Kai-Lan Chow, a cute little Chinese American girl who is being particularly helpful in teaching my daughter some basic Chinese words. Kai-Lan, like Dora, hangs out with a monkey named Hoho, as well as Tolee the panda and Rintoo the tiger.

Titled Ni Hao Kai-Lan, the program also features YeYe, Kai-Lan's grandfather, wbo is responsible for passing the chinese traditions and customs down to his granddaughter.

Suitable for preschoolers, you have got to love television that is fun as well as semi-educational!!



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Lantern Festival Craft Activity

January 28th 2009 08:29
In preparation for Lantern Festival (Yuan Xiao Festival) which is celebrated this year on the 9 February, we decided to make some paper lanterns to hang on the ceiling.

A great craft idea to while away an afternoon which involved limited craft materials which were already in the house.
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