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Hands-On Activities |
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On this page we plan to pass on hands-on activities and resources that we’ve discovered. More activities will be added as time permits. |
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When your cards are finished, play Authors. The goal is to collect as many sets of Authors as possible. (I believe that most people know how to play this game; e-mail for directions if you don’t know how to play.) After you’ve created this basic game, it has many possibilities: |
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One of the authors we included in our Authors game is Jan Brett. Some of the books by Ms. Brett that we enjoy are: Gingerbread Baby, Annie and the Wild Animals, Beauty and the Beast, The Mitten, The Hat, The Umbrella, Town Mouse Country Mouse, On Noah’s Ark. We met Jan several years ago when she was in Duluth promoting On Noah’s Ark. Ms. Brett provides a fantastic website; she invites people to e-mail or write her. Check out the activities pages, coloring pages, recipes, murals + much more: www.janbrett.com |
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Would you like to get your students excited about making their own map of the seven continents? Try the following activity; you may want to use this with a coop so students can be exposed to the great variety of ways the assignment can be completed: |
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The following activity can be used as a review exercise with any book that mentions a number of objects. The example described below is included in the guide for The Boston Coffee Party (Study Guides for Grades 1-3). Directions for the teacher: *Other possible items: Berries in a bag if they are available, sewing supplies, an egg (or an egg shell). Alternatives: ***** |
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