What activities can be done with a grade 1 class and grade 4 class learning buddies?
537481
I had the good fortune to attend a one-room school for the first two years of my education. One of my most fond memories was a "nature walk" We teamed up, old and young, as partners (often the same family, but not always) and the teacher lead us through the playground and a neighboring wooded area. The teacher pointed out different birds, plants, and trees. \n   She also had us find specimens like clover, lemon weed, fallen leaves, goldenrod, plantain (Broadleaf plantain) and others. We then took them back with us and saved them in shoe boxes. Leaves were pressed between wax paper, etc. and then we reported to the class on what we had found and how to identify them. Sometimes even the teacher was "stumped" at an identification and a contest was held, first person to identify it got a prize (usually an apple).\n    That one hour "nature walk" could extend into weeks of research and work. The memories of it have certainly extended into my adulthood. (That was 42 years ago.)
1085095
I am not sure what type of blocks you are talking about but these are the activities I have done:\n* Unifix Cubes, linking cubes, connecting cubes (however you want to say it)\n\nWe use it to regroup when subtraction and add two digit number to build it.  \n\nWe play "Make a ten" Game.  You give each student or put them in groups of 2 and give them about 20-30 blocks.  You hand out a piece of paper that has a tens/ones chart.  Everytime you clap, ring a bell, or make some kind of noise, the students put that many cubes, blocks.  Once they reach a 10, they connect them together and instead of placing them on the ones, they regroup it to a ten, so they have 1 ten, 0 ones and you keep going until they can make another ten.\n\nMultiplication: Making groups with blocks to show multiplication.  5x3=15 So you have five groups with 3 blocks each.\n\nGraphing: Give a certain number of colored blocks to a group of students.  For example, give  like 5 red, 9 blue, 3 yellow and 12 green.  The students make a bar graph of it and they can compare their graph with other groups.  Ask questions like, which group has more yellow cubes or how many more red cubes does this group have than that one...etc\n\nIntro to Division: You give the students 6 blocks and ask how can they make equal groups.  Some may do groups of 2, groups of 3.  Then you increase the number of blocks to say 10 and see how many possibilities they have.\n\nMaking patterns if the blocks are different colors.\n\nUsing blocks to answer word problems. Example: You have 15 oranges. You want to share them equally among 3 friends.  How many oranges does each friend get?\n\nFractions: Depending if you have the type of blocks that are shapes (square, triangle, hexagon, trapezoid...etc) They are the ones that if you put 6 small green triangles in a hexagon it covers it up.  So if you take away 1 green triangle you took away 1/6 etc.\n\nLearning about odd/even numbers. Use blocks to build numbers and pair up blocks to see if a number is even or odd.\n\nMeasuring using blocks. In second grade students need to measure using non-standard units, like in blocks.  They can measure books, their desk, each other.  They have fun with it.\n\nPints, quarts and cups.  I tell the students that one block represents one cup.  When they connect two blocks that is now and pint and when they connect 4 that is now a quart.  I then say, ok, get 8 cups.  How many pints do I have? How many quarts do I have?
682670
I really wish I could help you but my oldest is only in second grade.  Most of the websites I use are for teaching ABC's and 123's.\n\nYou can try this one for math worksheets.\nhttp://www.eduplace.com/math/mw/\nIf you choose your child's grade level and then leveled practice you will be able to print out a lot of worksheets.  You might want to look through them a little to find exactly what you want.  You might want to occasionally choose an easier grade level to print out a few easy review pages.  \n\nFor reading you might want to check with your local library to see if they have a summer reading program.  At my library the kids earn a small prize for every 10 books they read and bigger prizes at the end of the summer.  They love knowing that they can get prizes for books that they were going to read anyway.  \n\nMost libraries will have a few books with simple science experiments.  They are fun and educational.  We do a lot of these durring the summer.  A few weeks ago we planted lima beans and jelly beans.  When only the lima beans sprouted we cut open a lima bean to find the baby plant inside and the the jelly bean to find no baby plant.  We had a lot of fun.\n\nFind out what your child is interesten in and help him/her learn all about it.  My 7 year old is intersted in Archeology and paleontology so much of what he learns involves dinosaurs and ancient egypt.  My 4 year old loves gardening so we are learning about seeds, parts of a plant, and what living things need to grow.  My 2 year old loves bugs so we are learning the life cycles of insects.  We count legs when we can get the bug to lay still enough.  They don't even realize that they are learning when you teach them what they want to know!\n\nGood luck!
392977
http://www.mfdabbs.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Teacher's_Friend_Easy_Marker_&_Grader/ScreenShots/Grader_Pictures/grade.gif\n\np.s : i have answered it already
158077
http://www.enchantedlearning.com is a very nice site.\n\nhttp://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/tablek.html\n\nhttp://www.kidport.com/GradeK/GradeKHome.htm
800886
you need to be more specific\n\neach age group langauage activities are different from the very young 2s something as simple as on/off to pre k beginning studies of letters and more advanced opposites to prereading skills
776831
There is so much you can do with your time at the end of a lesson that would FACILITATE learning, not just consume time.  I honestly can't believe that a teacher would even ask this question.  I would suggest that you have the students work together in groups to produce a game show like Jeopardy or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (using PowerPoint- you can find templates online), with word problems related to the unit you're studying.  Then, you could use those games to review concepts before the test.
560842
Food. Offer breakfast or something to have students meet their mentor over breakfast. Then have them pair up and do a scavenger hunt around the school (the first team to find all of the locations wins something). Make it a competetion and offer food...that always seems to get my students into it.
700601
For which topic and which year group? If you provide more info I can probably help you ...\n\nI presume from your question that you are a student on teaching practice - a common mistake at this stage (we all did it so don't worry!) is that you are trying to think of an activity first, then the learning objective - it needs to be done the other way round! look on the medium term planning to find out which topic/learning intention you want to deliver, then you can find a fun activity to match this. Hope this is helpful!
954368
My kids did this last year at school.  Some suggestions from their class:\n\n*How to tie your shoes\n*How to play an instrument\n*How to locate a place on a map\n*How to hit a baseball\n*How to play a game\n\nHope this gives you some ideas.  Good luck!
175420
This is a great age because everything is such a new and unique experience and they are learning so much every day.  Some ideas:\n\n--Play games involving memory skills, alphabet, numbers, vocabulary.  Have scavenger hunts to have them find red items or items beginning with B, etc.\n\n--Play age-appropriate board games like Candyland or Memory Match\n\n--Color in coloring books\n\n--Look for homeschool oriented activity books for the age.  Walmart usually has fun stuff that isn't very expensive.  Or make your own "activity sheets"\n\n--Get physical--play games that involve jumping, dancing, stretching.  Simon Says is a great one  for this, or Follow the Leader or Hide and Seek.\n\n--Get them involved in doing simple things to help you with your chores like sorting laundry, cleaning up toys etc.  Find ways to make it into a game.\n\n--Bake cookies and let them help decorate the cookies\n\n--Read, read, read, lots of storybooks.  \n\n--for times when you need some "mommy time" videos/DVDs can't be beat.  There's lots of educational stuff out there, too.  My nephews love PBS kids shows and you can get compilations of them.\n\nHere's some websites with some more ideas:\n\nhttp://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/Pre-School/\n\nhttp://www.perpetualpreschool.com/
921802
For preschoolers, I would have a lot of action and songs.  Examples would include showing them and having them practice Stop Drop and Roll.  Feel free to email me for a cute short song that you could teach them.  Another idea is to have plastic items (from a toy bag purchased at the Dollar Store or Big Lots).  Have them name the different items...firefighter, fire truck, ambulance, etc.  End with a short story...I have various titles in my fire box and would be happy to share with you the titles...Clifford is just one off hand and it comes with a tape.  Another activity you could do for them is to go to the local fire dept and see if they would allow you to record various sounds...sirens, 911 operator, the person who announces a fire, water, maybe a firedog barking etc... or take your video camera or even camera to take photos.  Perhaps you could even arrange for them to visit your school or you go to them.  Also, ask them if they have any coloring books.  One last thought, try various websites for coloring pages and lesson plans (educational sites).  Have fun!!!!!
1080874
Keep them busy.  Ride bikes with them, rollerblade, take them to the park.  Give them entertaining books to read and then ask them to draw pictures of their favorite parts of the book.  Play educational games..the list is endless.
121869
Have a teacher assign a team project that would be graded on
350131
Your desk should be out of the way...you're not going to be sitting in it during instruction, anyway. Set up students to allow ease of communication during class discussion, based on what you want for that discussion...peer partners, small-group teams, or whole-class. Make sure both standard and "when you're done" materials/center activities are placed for easy access. Create a variety of hands-on, audio, and other extra activities for centers (usable at any age level...just modify content and visual presentation). Find out student interests and find/develop activities that use those interests as a theme tying back into the skills and content area knowledge you're teaching.
256193
put them in the normal class, let them interact with the normal student, give them personal attention and...\npray for them...
1030025
Give them plenty of opportunities to get up and move around.  Cooperative groups work well.  You must remember to model for them the things you want them to do.  Patience is key and so is structure. They are very anxious to please and will thrive with your excitement about their learning!  Weekly themes work very nicely- both for you (it's easy to plan), and for them (they keep focused).