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Showing posts with label School Fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label School Fun. Show all posts

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Birthday Bags (Or other Holiday bags)


Have people donate the following items to make Birthday bags for unfortunate kids or teachers for their class (Primary) 

--Buy all items from dollar store 
-Little bags
-Ribbon
-Small Candy 
-Small toys 
-Glow sticks
-Cards 
-small candles 

- Place one of each item above into a bag and then tie it with a ribbon and tie the card to it.
 (Blue Ribbon is gift for guy, Pink Ribbon is gift for girl) When the teacher gives the gift have them write the name on the card. 

EXTRA 
Watch a movie while you make the fun birthday bags 

You could change the items and do this for any holiday. 

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Team Night


Play different games that must use all team mates to do.

-Obstacle course
-Relay Race
-Blind maze (some blindfolded team mates- other team mates are guides)
-Make dessert each person in team has 1 or 2 ingredients -- Can't make correct dessert without all the ingredients and working together to make it.
-etc

Have fun learning strategies to complete each task . Learn importance of each person. Find that each person has a strength.

At end of game night have fun snacks. or if you did dessert challenge eat the desserts.


Dice Game Night


There are a lot of fun games that include dice.

Here are some Math Games to do with giant dice to help kids get excited about math.

--You can even make giant dice with throw away coolers or taped boxes.

GAMES
Can be one player or have two kids or teams compete to get the answer

( For teams if they answer correctly they receive a  point if they answer incorrectly the other team can answer it)



*Addition
-- Roll both dices and have kids add it.

*Alligator
--Have an alligator symbol or for extra fun a toy alligator
--Roll both dice have the child put the toy or symbol on the dice that has more

*Subtraction
--Roll both dice have the children subtract the small number from the big number. (k-3 grades)
--same have them answer both ways adding the negative symbol (3-5)

*Multiplication
-- Roll both dice and multiply

*Division
-- Roll both dice divide big number first (2-3)
-- same but have them do both sides (4-5)

*Middle and Highschool

--Have 4 or 6 # dice
-- Have symbol dice
-- Roll all and set up an equation and solve


*EXTRA after math games
-play a fun dice game -- monopoly, sorry, etc
-Have activities to do written on slips of paper in a list roll # and choose the activity that matches the number -- Young kids it can be do jumping jacks, touch your toes, get a piece of candy.
For teens, get snacks, play wii, ipod music, etc