Archive for the ‘art’ Category
10
Jan
Posted by evelynsaenz in art, Beginning Readers, beginning to read, Educational Toys, homeschooling, learning centers, Limited Vocabulary, pre-teen suggestions, Spelling, Vocabulary, Word Games. Tagged: activities, beginning to read, children, classroom, creative, discovery bottles, educational, evelyn saenz, games, hands-on, homeschooling, learning centers, letters, prefix, root words, spelling, suffix, teaching, unit studies, wonder bottles, word attack skills, word skills. Leave a Comment
Wonder Bottles don’t have to be just for babies. Try creating a series of Discovery Bottles for your first to sixth graders with magnet letters hidden in sand, water with glitter, or snowy white beads. As they turn the bottles around, they search for the letters contained in the bottle. Try words like wintry, wintertime, [...]
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7
Dec
Posted by evelynsaenz in art, books for boys, picture books, read aloud, story hour. Tagged: children, chores, home alone, house painting, painting, peter spier. Leave a Comment
Oh, Were They Ever Happy! by Peter Spier My rating: 5 of 5 stars The children were just trying to help out and please their parents the day they painted the house. View all my reviews >> After reading this story to the children I like to get out some shoe boxes (one for every [...]
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1
Dec
Posted by evelynsaenz in art, Uncategorized, unit studies. Tagged: 2009, activities, awards, birds, creative, educational, giant squids, learning, lessons, robins, squidoo, teaching, unit studies, voting. Leave a Comment
You can Vote Now for the 2009 Giant Squid Awards It’s time for the 2009 Giant Squid Awards! Over 100 Giants in 15 Categories have been nominated including Robin in the Rain. Look for the robins under “Best Sports/Outdoors Lens Nominees “. Now sit back, relax and take a look at these fabulous lenses. I [...]
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20
Sep
Posted by evelynsaenz in art, picture books, read aloud, story hour, teaching social skills. Tagged: art, ed emberley, education, fears, go away big green monster, monsters, teaching, unit studies. Leave a Comment
“Go Away, Big Green Monster! And don’t come back, …
until I say so.”
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27
Aug
Posted by evelynsaenz in art, beavers, Beginning Readers, unit studies. Tagged: beavers, creative, hands-on, language arts, learning, math, paddy the beaver, science, social studies, spelling, teaching, thornton burgess. Leave a Comment
I like to create unit studies around a favorite book, animal or special interest of the children. One day I read the book Paddy the Beaver by Thornton Burgess. My children liked it so much that we started a unit study on it. As in the case of the previous comment, I look for activities [...]
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26
Aug
Posted by evelynsaenz in art, Beginning Readers, Educational Toys, frog, Mathematics, Uncategorized, unit studies. Tagged: activities, children, classroom, creative, education, frogs, hands-on, learning, learning centers, students, teaching, thornton burgess, unit studies. 3 Comments
As I start on my second year of writing lenses at Squidoo, I have decided to take the plunge into learning about the rest of the web. Up to this point I have written mostly about education and how to set up a learning environment that is focused on a central theme or unit study. [...]
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