Make Learning Fun

Fun Combination of Word Games and Puzzles Bananagrams, the letter-tile game that is similar to Scrabble, is the better game in my opinion...

Teach with your student's interests in mind.  My first-grade son likes baseball, so when we did ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd...), h...

"Work" is another old, anonymous poem introduced in First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind but with slightly different ...

Here's another poem from First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind . It's an old, anonymous rhyme called "Hearts Are Lik...

A friend told me the other day that her first-grade son was discouraged about math. He is having a hard time memorizing addition and subtrac...

Our youngest is doing Singapore Math 1 this year and is learning number bonds now. Number bonds, are simply sets of three numbers—two parts ...

Christina Rossetti's "The Caterpillar" is a wonderful first poem for a child to memorize and study. It is short, simple and co...

There's a children's book exhibition on in my town and one book that caught my eye was A Rock Is Lively by Diana Hutts Aston and...

Math is largely about recognizing and creating patterns. But sometimes the best way to practice something is doing the opposite. Hmmm. Is av...

Today I gave my kids the "four fours" challenge. Here it is: Find a mathematical expression for all the numbers from zero to twe...

Student assessment can take many forms. One thing I like to do is ask the students to create their own questions, answer them themselves, an...

Today my students found over 100 words hiding in the word "signature." Most of the kids are English language learners. It was a fu...

The most fun and delicious way to learn fractions is with food. You can count, add, subtract, even multiply and divide fractions with food...

Struggling to motivate a reluctant writer? I bought Draw...Then Write a few years ago to use with my English language learners. Since then...

The Chinese invented paper over 4000 years ago. For our unit on ancient China, we made our own paper bowls in the classroom last week. The...

Fine motor skills are crucial for everyone, but focused practice on them usually ends in preschool or kindergarten. Older children often ne...

Whoever thought untying knots could be so much fun? Improve your sense of spatial relations with Brain String Advanced , a fun puzzle that, ...

My oldest child received " Blink - The World's Fastest Card Game " for his tenth birthday last year. It sat on a shelf for a w...

We found a simple weather experiment online and tried it at home this morning. The idea is to make water condense in a glass to simulate cl...