How to Make Paper Snowflakes
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Science Experiement PLUS!
How can we teach the children that we mentor to walk or run away from trouble? Here’s a science experiment that might just stick in their mind the next time they are faced with a choice to obey or not to obey…. 1. Gather supplies: small bowl of water, pepper, liquid dishwashing detergent, toothpick 2.
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Math Game- Don’t You FOR GET IT!
Students and mentors will have fun as they race to be the first player to reach 500 points. Players roll the 9 dice that come with this game and score points by adding the numbers rolled. They can continue rolling and making points as long as they don’t roll the three dice that spell out
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Snowflake Craft
Here’s a simple craft that you can do with your child during the mentoring hour. Create a snowflake using white yarn, scissors, glue, a pie tin and wax paper. First, have your child dip yarn strings in glue that is in a pie tin. Use the yarn to form a snowflake on wax paper, overlapping
Setting Goals for the New Year
During the first part of January help your child set goals for the new year. Begin by explaining that a goal is something you want to achieve. Help your child think up a goal for different areas in their life…academic, social, behavior. Some examples may be… * Turn in my homework on time * Make
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The Judy Moody MOOD JOURNAL
Everytime you meet with your KIDS HOPE USA student, it is important to take time at the beginning of the hour to reconnect and to find out how they are doing. We call this part of the KIDS HOPE hour the “Know What” period. This is when you will hear things like, “Know what I
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Math- Measurements
GIVE ‘EM a HAND….a “handy” method for understanding the concept of measurement 1. Have your student trace around one of her hands on cardstock paper and write her name on it. 2. To ensure that the hand lasts, you may consider covering it with contact paper or laminate it. 3. Model for your student how
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BEAT THAT! Math Dice Game
This game is a fun way to practice place value and greater than or less than Supplies: 2 dice, paper, pencil How to play: Roll the dice and put them in order to make the highest number possible. If you roll a 4 and a 6, for example, your best answer would be a 64.
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MOUSE Dice Game
To play this game you will need The goal of this game is to be the first to complete a Mouse. Each roll of the die enables a particular