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Discovery Bottles filled with Root Words, Prefixes and Suffixes – Wonder Bottles for Bigger Kids

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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Ocean Floor Learning Center for the Lobster Unit Study

Lobster Prey Learning Center: What do Lobsters eat? About midway though our lobster unit study I open the Ocean Floor Learning Center on the classroom rug. I wait until the children have enough knowledge of the lives of lobsters for them to be able to use this knowledge in the center. Set up an Ocean [...]

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A Year of Learning Calendar

A Year of Learning by evelynsaenz create a calendar with Zazzle Children need plenty of time to play, explore and discover the world around them. This calendar celebrates the wonders of childhood with vintage illustrations of children learning throughout the year. What are some of the activities you will be doing this year?

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Cooperative Board Game teaches about Natural Backyard Habitat

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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Ducklings Play Follow the Leader

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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Betsy, Tacy and Tib: A Book for Girls about to Turn Ten

Our favorite book for girls about to turn 10 years old is Betsy-Tacy and Tib ” Betsy, Tacy and Tib are nine years old and about to turn 10. This is important, Betsy tells Tacy, because ten year olds have two digits in their ages. These girls are such good friends that they vow not [...]

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The Letter K unites Blueberries for Sal with Klippity Klop

Blueberries for Sal Unit Study Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey Rated: 5 of 5 stars “Kerplink, kerplank, kerplunk” As I was working on a unit study for Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey” ,  it stuck me that the words “kerplink, kerplank, kerplunk” all began with the letter K. Now wasn’t there another book [...]

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Results of Unschooling: My Daughter turns 21

Results of unschooling through the elementary years: Looking back at our educational choices as our daughter turns 21.

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