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Time Saving Classroom Resources
Welcome to NERF Gun Target Practice! Nerf Gun Target Practice is for summer days, rainy days, snowy days, or kids cooped-up-for-too-long days. Do you seem to have a bunch of Nerf Guns and not enough things to do with them….. besides shoot your sibling? << Am I right? Time to build Nerf Gun Targets […]
Finding ways to get kids engaged doesn’t have to be hard! Remember the Stacking Cup Challenge? This is the equivalent but with Popsicle sticks. We call it the “Popsicle Stick Bridge Building Challenge”. This is a great STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) activity for students in the classroom or kids at home. Popsicle Stick Bridge Challenge […]
One Water Drop and a Maze – the Water Drop Game My youngest child loves mazes! They are the first thing he attempts in all puzzle books and we’ve found even more free ones for him on-line. In an effort to find something we both would enjoy playing, we decided to try Water Drop Mazes! […]
Summer Learning Activities Summer Learning during the summer? Sign me up! No really, it’s not going to be the end of the world and it might just start you and your children on a successful summer learning journey. You can call it whatever you like, but we’ve just called it “Summer Points”. It’s a way […]
4 Tips for Creating a Welcoming Classroom Environment Have you ever wondered how teachers figure out how to create a welcoming classroom? Each teacher starts with the same basic tables, desks, and chairs. Then they turn it into a place for learning and growing. Copy these tips to create a beautiful, stylish, welcoming classroom […]
When I stumbled upon this idea, I thought it was the most brilliant idea I’d ever come up with! 🙂 Have you heard of the dreaded “Summer Slide” where children learn up to 3 months of learning over the summer? This means that if they don’t do any work over the summer, they can be […]
