Archive for the ‘Educational Toys’ 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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8
Nov
Posted by evelynsaenz in autumn, backyard habitat, board games, Educational Toys, homeschooling, Limited Vocabulary, math, nature, science, teaching social skills. Tagged: activities, board games, cats, children, christmas, classroom, cooperative, education, educational, first grade, games, homeschooling, kindergarten, learning centers, math, students, teaching. Leave a Comment
Max the Cat cooperative Board Game Max the Cat is Hungry! Scurry, Climb or Fly for your Lives! While blue jays sing in the trees, chipmunks scavenge for nuts and seeds, and mice do what mice do, a fat old cat named Max finds his way out the door of his house. His owners have [...]
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17
Aug
Posted by evelynsaenz in Beginning Readers, beginning to read, Educational Toys, homeschooling, math, Mathematics, picture books, read aloud, story hour, teaching social skills, unit studies, Word Games. Tagged: alphabetical order, ducklings, ducks, robert McCloskey, rubber ducks. Leave a Comment
Ducklings Play Follow the Leader Ducklings in Alphabetical Order Ducklings Play Follow the Leader Buy at AllPosters.com Write the names of each of the ducklings on the rubber ducks and then ask the children to put them in ABC order. This makes a wonderful activity for the first few children who come into the classroom [...]
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29
Nov
Posted by evelynsaenz in Educational Toys, frog, Uncategorized. Tagged: activities, christmas, creative, educational, first grade, frogs, games, gits, hands-on, kindergarten, learning, learning centers, math, stocking stuffers, toys. Leave a Comment
ThinkFun Hoppers Frog Game When I was looking for stocking stuffers for my frog loving children the other day I ran across ThinkFun Hoppers. ThinkFun Hoppers is a fun, educational game that my kids love to play anytime, anywhere and the case is so compact that it can be slipped into a Christmas Stocking. My [...]
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21
Nov
Posted by evelynsaenz in Educational Toys, Toddlers. Tagged: activities, children, christmas, christmas gifts for children, creative, educational, hands-on, kindergarten, learning, math, parking garage, toy, toy cars. Leave a Comment
When my son turned three he loved cars, trucks and buses so I showed him how to play the fill and dump game with cars and a garage. My son loved to play with the Fisher Price Garage making the cars go down the ramp and then chasing after them as they rolled across the [...]
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6
Oct
Posted by evelynsaenz in Beginning Readers, Educational Toys, Uncategorized. Tagged: abc, alphabet, beginning to read, educational games, first grade, games, hands-on, kindergarten, learning, learning centers, letters, literacy, phonics, spelling. 1 Comment
Is your child ready to learn to spell, learn letter sounds or make their own crossword puzzles? There are dozens of activities you can do to encourage your child to learn letters and words while playing with letters. One of our favorite games is to take a handful of Alpha-bits Cereal and see how many [...]
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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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