What a natural – Earth Day and Arbor Day (no pun intended)!  This year the Arbor Day Foundation will plant trees in the national forests from donations for you.  Commemorate a child’s birth with a tree in one of America’s national forests! They also have on their website lots of ideas for activities with...
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Remember this game? Well, I do!  It is fun but for my students, although very bright, I think it would be hard at first so I had an idea! Why not make our own version? I’m going to wear a big safari-type hat and explain to my students that we are going on an...
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We are currently reading “Stuart Little”. My students have really enjoyed listening to this tale! It is so well done and clever! I was thinking about reading month, “What to do?” I could do the pizza slices (kids love food!).  They would get a  different color slice for each different genre that they read. ...
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      My students really got into making their own circus tents and it allowed them to include all the elements that they had been learning about.  Some of my students added the “audience” in the background, which looked really cool. I couldn’t have done it without my brother, Bruce Weber, for his...
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One of the activities that every kid loves it building with these large scale plastic rods with connectors.  Today’s challenge was to make a rocket as a team.  They understood the concept of making a rocket but working as a team…well, some did and some didn’t. If you don’t have the tubes a simple...
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Ben letting his creative energies flow.                   This year I put on a theater week for kids!  It was a blast! We played with many aspects of performing through: theater games to help them become more comfortable with themselves and each other attended a puppet show...
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  This is the display we set up to help our scholars plan for their trip on the Oregon Trail.  A very creative volunteer made our “hide” supply list.  She even wrote some of the letters backwards to give it an old time feel!  Very funny T.J.! Our scholars were grouped into families.  They...
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                  Making measuring hands-on and interesting for kids is always important.  This activity insures that they will want to measure all of their favorite stuffed animals.  They can also measure their real favorite  real pets but they won’t stay still like a stuffed pet will!  
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Savanna is studying telephones so I made this to help her practice her math facts at the same time.  She is working on addition and subtraction facts but if you need something harder or easier just change the equations to fit your needs. Color key: Orange = 8 brown = 10 dark blue =...
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Mardi Gras is traditionally celebrated on the Tuesday prior to the beginning of Lent. Mardi Gras translated means Fat Tuesday. Many people also enjoy the Polish sweet pastry, paczki on Fat Tuesday (in English, the common pronunciation is ponch-kee). Get in the celebration by making masks and downing festive attire. Make a Mardi Gras...
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