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Build LEGO Sight Words Activity
August 24, 2025
Build words out of LEGO bricks! This is a fun hands-on activity for early readers. All you'll need for this simple literacy activity is some basic LEGO bricks, a baseplate,…
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Guess the Number {Number Logic Game}
August 20, 2025
Challenge kids to use logic to figure out the digits in a six-digit number. All you need is paper and some markers! A couple weeks ago, Janie and I figured…
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Place Value Activities with Graph Paper
August 11, 2025
Do some fun and effective hands-on place value activities with graph paper! Why buy expensive math manipulatives when you can do so many things with supplies you already have? We…
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Teaching Mathematical Patterns and Combinations with Ice Cream Flavors
May 28, 2025
Teach patterns, combinations, and permutations with ice cream flavors! Let's do some ice cream math! This hands-on math activity is interesting for kids and really leads to some great thinking…
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Sidewalk Chalk Word Games
May 6, 2025
Sidewalk Chalk Word Games for Elementary School Get outside and try these sidewalk chalk word games! These activities are so much fun and truly feel more like play than learning.…
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Printable Star Wars Writing Prompts
April 27, 2025
Print these Star Wars writing prompts! There are 16 cards to print. Writing is much easier to do when you get the chance to write about something you're interested in.…
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Magic Math! (And more ideas for addition fact practice)
April 7, 2025
Let's do some magic math! This is an idea for a FUN way to spice up addition practice. And it actually works for any math facts practice including subtraction, multiplication,…
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What Can You Do in One Minute?
March 30, 2025
What can you do in one minute? How long is a minute anyway? This is a fun telling time activity that is perfect for kindergarten and first grade. We are…
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Elementary Math Games with Dice
March 11, 2025
Here's a collection of the best elementary math games with dice! Math is WAY more fun when it's a game. Games add an element of play and competition to whatever…
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Perimeter and Area Math Activity {with LEGO bricks!}
January 6, 2025
Do your students have trouble remembering the difference between perimeter and area? Here's a great way to reinforce these concepts with a LEGO math activity! One of my sons had…
