SNOW much FUN with snowflakes!
Click on the worksheet images below to download these fun snowflake worksheets for you and your mentee to work on during your time together:
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Click on the worksheet images below to download these fun snowflake worksheets for you and your mentee to work on during your time together:
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“After a year of being together, one of our mentors had to say goodbye to her little boy as he was moving to a different school. Knowing he would miss our KIDS HOPE USA Christmas party, the mentor brought in the gift that all of the students would be receiving- a KIDS HOPE knit hat
Eat jelly beans and learn about math at the same time with this fun activity! Graphing is a skill that all elementary students are expected to know, and this is a fun way to practice! Click on the following link to download a copy of this activity https://www.dropbox.com/s/32gyrfig5y5j828/jellybean%20graph.pdf
I LOVE when I find a game that makes kids laugh out loud! YACKETY SMACK, a game by Thinkfun, is one of those games that helps with learning and is fun at the same time. Kids will love recording noises and playing this game as they improve their memory and visual discrimination skills! Click on the
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Since it’s Reading Month, I wanted READING to be the focus during my mentoring hour with my six year old today. With very little effort, I was able to help him with all five components of reading AND have fun at the same time… in fact, his giggles were contagious! I enjoyed laughing with him.
Here’s a very simple idea for you to try during your mentoring session…go outside and play catch with your child. This will give you a chance to make eye contact with each other, to communicate together, to practice skills, to be outside, and to have fun. Grab a nerf football, a soft baseball, a tennis
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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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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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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This is a fun way to practice some basic math facts! First, decide which function to practice- addition or multiplication- and a set of numerals to work with- 1 through 9 for younger children and larger numerals for older children. Write the numbers on small adhesive labels and place them on each section of the