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"Helping children grow through learning!"
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For Parents and Teachers Play games that are educational. Have you been using the Word of the Day? You can buy blank puzzles and write the words of the day on them. Your children can color them and put them together. You or your child can also make your own puzzles. Write the word on a piece of tagboard or poster board and cut it into interesting shapes to be put back together. These puzzles may be saved in sandwich bags. You can make finger hole games. Using tagboard, posterboard, sturdy construction paper, or large index cards, markers, and scissors or craft knife, you can make games to reinforce a variety of skills. Your game cards may be index card size for older students or larger for younger children. Use your markers to write a question or problem. Then write several choices for answers, including the correct one. Under each answer choice, cut a round hole large enough for a child’s finger to fit through. On the back, circle or star the correct answer so that the child can check it by turning the card or paper over. Make sure that the answer doesn’t show on the front! For young children this can be programmed to practice counting, naming colors and shapes, alphabet sounds, beginning, ending, and middle sounds, etc. You may want to draw or cut and paste pictures to illustrate the concept. For older children, you can review addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts, and even longer problems. You could write a word problem with several possible solutions. Practice spelling words by spelling each word several ways, all but one of them wrong. Practice punctuation by writing a sentence and have the student choose the correct punctuation mark. The possibilities are endless! |
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