K-3 Ideas

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        What children learn through play?

·      Teaches child’s vocabularies to increase

·     Teaches sharing and taking turns and improves cooperation

·      Teaches children to develop empathy and express emotions

·      Teaches children to develop patience and tolerance

·      Teaches children to feel successful and gain independence      

Allow Enrichment Experiences for Children K-3

·          Read the comic strips from the local newspaper.   Teacher can cut the comic strip, write on the back of each strip a number so you know the sequence order, mix them up, and let the children in groups of four arrange them in sequential order.   Or white-out the comic strip sayings and let the child create a new story.  

·          Find familiar pictures or commercials in magazines, cut them out and use them as their first words in reading what they see everyday in their environment like a stop sign or a Burger King picture.

·         Use magazines or newspaper pictures and/or pictures of families, show the different kinds of emotions like smiling, being angry, crying and then ask the children questions about the pictures.  Let the children draw how they are feeling.

 

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Thoughts about Math for Children under 5

It seems many of you have written and enjoyed the Math for Children Under Five games. Here are some more ideas. Thank you for your comments! 

Through mathematics, children learn to understand their world in terms of numbers and shapes. They learn to reason, to connect ideas, and to think logically. Every day as children play they are using mathematics without even realizing it. Children learn best when they find answers for themselves and in their own way.

Try these games:
Sitting On A Number - Double set of numbers 1-10 are made. One set of numbers is handed out to ten children who sit on that number. (Make sure they are mixed up.)  The child selected has his/her back turned and selects a number from the second set. The child turns around and trys to guess where the number is located and has three quesses. If the child wins, the child with that number has the next opportunity to guess. 

How Many Body Parts - Ask the the children tell how you how many body parts they have like "How many noses in the room?"  "How many eyes, or ears, or chins, or fingers or toes are in the room counting the teacher?"

Remember, very young children (age’s two to five) need activities to challenge their minds.




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Indoor Games

Children love to play games, imitate, participate with others, and just have a good time.   These games have the goals needed for the teacher to motivate the children to use those muscles and exercise their bodies into a fun-based educational learning way through these designed games for use both outdoors and indoors.   Here are 3 fun games:

        Balloon Laugh:

        Procedure:  Throw the balloon up in the air. The child must keep the balloon up in the air and laugh continuously. If the balloon hits the ground, the laughter stops!

        Variation:  Can use many children in groups with many balloons as everyone in the group laughs until the balloon hits the ground for the group.

       Clap and Sing Nursery Rhymes:

        Procedure:  Let the children clap their hands and sing some of the choruses from the nursery rhymes that they know like Mary Had A Little Lamb, Jack and Jill, and add other songs like Bingo, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, etc.

        Variation: Rhythms are most important in the children and so have the children clap out the rhythm of the song without singing any of the words.

 

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