Tree Frog Resources
Resources and Ideas for Home
Work on shape recognition by building shapes with Q-tips and gluing down to paper.
Use paint and a Q-tip to dot/ trace letters (could also use for numbers). Work on letter sounds as they dot, "A says aaaa, B says bbbb [...]"
Practice writing name, letters, numbers, etc. in storage bags filled with your choice (paint, glue, shave cream/food coloring, water-flour mixture, etc.)
building block game.pdfFree Lego math game board! If you don't have a printer, this could easily be recreated by hand and you could use a single dice instead of the game spinner.
Use to make any activity more interesting! 👍
No printer? No problem! Post-Its or index cards would work perfectly with the correct numeral and spaces for the corresponding quantity.
Use whatever kind of manipulative you have on hand if you don't have pom poms.
This cup and paper number activity could be self-checking by including the correct number of dots inside the cup so children can match.
If you are looking for a couple of ideas to use at home with the kids to enrich their academics, then look no further! In this video, you will discover some of our favorite literacy and mathematics activities we enjoy in the T.F. Studio. I hope you find this video, both, useful and engaging. Enjoy!
We are fortunate enough to have many available digital resources as part of the DoDEA-military community. Below we have included our Symbaloo* page with some of the educational resources we would recommend that we use in class, as well as some additional entertaining applications and online activities.
*Symbaloo brings blended learning to the classroom and makes all educational resources easily accessible to our students at any time, on any device. It allows your to save, organize and share all your digital resources in a personalized and safe online environment.
If you are unable to access the Symbaloo resources by clicking the tiles, here is the link for my class Symbaloo:
Username and Passwords that you may need:
MackinVia: hamptonpri/dodea
Bookflix: military/military
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