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New Year’s Story & Activities

December 21st, 2011

Hi! It’s Wednesday, December 21, 2011 and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!

This is the last ClickSchooling review of 2011. ClickSchooling will take a holiday break from Thursday, December 22, 2011 through Monday, January 2, 2012. 

ClickSchooling messages will resume on Tuesday, January 3, 2012. Happy Holidays!  :)

Recommended Website
Activity Village: New Year for Kids!

Age Range: 5-12 (approximately, with parental supervision)

This ad-supported website offers a selection of fun Language Arts activities and free printables to celebrate the New Year. There are a few “for a fee” activities sprinkled among the freebies. So when you get to the site, to get right to the free Language Arts activities just scroll down the center of the page and look for the links to:

*New Year Worksheets – Includes printable pages of New Year story starters.

*New Year Puzzles & Mazes – Includes New Year themed word search puzzles and word games

*New Year Stories – Make your own booklet of Hans Christian Andersen’s Christmas and New Year story, The Little Match Girl. Includes the printable story and coloring pages.

You’ll also find links to New Year crafts, coloring pages, and jigsaw puzzles.

 

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Holiday Crafts for Kids!

December 3rd, 2011

Hi!  It’s Saturday, December 3, 2011 and time for Art at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Craft Ideas for Kids

Age Range:  All (with parental supervision)

ClickScholar Chris recommended this ad-supported, mega-crafts website that provides lots of step-by-step instructions for easy Christmas and winter crafts designed to help parents and children spend some creative quality time together. For many of these projects you only need paper, scissors, glue, and crayons or markers.

When you get to the site, you’ll see some “Google Ads” listed at the top of the page. Below them you’ll find an extensive menu of crafts (interspersed with more Google ads) that your kids are sure to enjoy making for the holiday and winter season including:

  • Paper Gingerbread Man
  • Candy Cane Paper Ornament
  • Popsicle Stick Snowflakes
  • Easy Orange Pomanders
  • Pom-Pom Snowman
  • Decoupage Christmas Candles
  • Paper Roll Santa Claus
  • Beaded Tree Ornaments
  • Links to Free Christmas Coloring Pages & More!

Click on any one for a list of materials, full instructions, and free printable craft patterns. As the website suggests, make some hot cocoa, put on some holiday tunes and enjoy a couple of afternoons helping your kids create wonderful holiday craft projects that make great decorations and gifts!

When you’re through exploring the kids section at this site, use the menu to find free craft patterns and tutorials for every season and for every age and ability.  

 

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Free Travel Games, Arts, & Crafts!

July 16th, 2011

Hi!  It’s Saturday, July 16, 2011 and time for Electives at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Artists Helping Children: Travel Games & Activities

ClickScholar Chris in Virginia shared this website where you’ll find an assortment of free travel games and much more!

When you get to the site, scroll down the page to find suggestions for fun ways to spend time while traveling on long car rides or trips on a bus, train, or plane including:

  • Name That Song
  • Animal Counting Game
  • I’m Going On A Trip And I’m Bringing…
  • Funny Story Telling Game
  • Funny Poem Game
  • Spelling Bee Contest
  • Guess The Number
  • Alliteration Words Game
  • Colors Matching Game
  • Car Color Game
  • 20 Questions
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors

Then, explore the rest of the site where you’ll find free arts and crafts indexed by theme, holiday, or alphabetically and other activities and resources such as paper folding, drawing lessons, and coloring pages.

By the way, if you enjoy fun educational travel games, you’ll love my book, Carschooling: Over 350 Entertaining Games & Activities To Turn Travel Time Into Learning Time!

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Fun Cinco De Mayo History, Lessons, & Activities!

May 5th, 2011

Hi!  It’s Thursday, May 5, 2011 and time for Social Sciences at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Websites:
See Below

Age Range: All (varies depending on site; with parental guidance)

It’s Cinco de Mayo! The fifth of May marks the Mexican army victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla, and represents Mexican independence from foreign intervention. I thought it would be fun to provide you with a fiesta of websites across the curriculum that celebrate Cinco De Mayo including the history of the festival, arts and crafts, Spanish lessons, math activities, mariachi music, recipes, and more.

*Mexico For Kids

This is an incredible website designed by a teacher, providing history of Mexico, stories in Spanish, how to count to 10 in Spanish, word searches and puzzles in Spanish, suggested reading about Mexico, a map of Mexico and much more.

*History of Cinco de Mayo

Review or print out a very brief history of the festival.

*Cinco de Mayo: History Channel Video Presentation

The History Channel website offers videos about the Aztecs, Montezuma, Cortez, Mesoamerican pyramids, the Cinco de Mayo festival, and an archive of articles about every aspect of Mexican history and culture.

*Cinco de Mayo Paper Dolls

Print and cut out Paper Dolls in costumes worn by Cinco de Mayo revelers.

*Cinco de Mayo Mariachi Music

Get into the spirit of celebration by listening to authentic mariachi music.

*Cinco de Mayo Recipes

Learn to make Menudo, sopes, and more!

*Cinco de Mayo Piñata

Learn the history of the Piñata get instructions on how to make a piñata.

*Cinco de Mayo Math

This website offers a thematic math lesson based on Cinco de Mayo designed for classroom use that can be “tweaked” for homeschools.

*Free Spanish Lessons

Cinco de Mayo is a great time to start Spanish lessons and at this website you can take free Spanish tutorials!

 

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Science with Goos, Doughs, Clays, & Compounds!

April 19th, 2011

Hi!  It’s Tuesday, April 19, 2011 and time for Science at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
100+ Goo Recipes

Age Range:  All (with parental supervision)

One of the greatest ways to introduce kids to science is through experiments that involve mixing things together to create something new, interesting, odd, strange, weird and fun!

There are no bells and whistles at this website, just a simple archive of over 100 recipes for concoctions like slime, play dough, silly putty, and more. (Sometimes, simplicity is so refreshing, isn’t it?)

When you get to the site you’ll see a menu of recipes divided into categories that include:

*Dough’s – Get recipes for play doughs made from flour, coffee, cornmeal, oatmeal, peanut butter, and more!

*Clay, Goo & other Compounds – Make chocolate clay, clean mud, and the popular non-Newtonian solid using cornstarch and water. Make clay from dryer lint and Kool-Aid, make GAK (using borax and Elmer’s glue), get recipes for sand clay, silly putty, and slime!

*Papier-mâché – Use dryer lint, strips of paper, and pastes of all textures to create imaginative designs.
 
*Paints, Dyes and Crayons – Learn to make your own chalk, bubble solution, make-up, clown paint, bath paint, finger paint, egg yolk paint, puffy paint, salt paint, and pudding paint. You’ll even find instructions for coloring rice and pasta.
 
*Bubbles, Chalk , Stamps, Make-up – Get recipes for all kinds of bubble solutions, make sidewalk chalk, and create your own fruit-flavored stamps.

*Art, Activities, Gifts – Try your hand at candle-making, make salt sculptures, preserve flowers, make ornaments and bath salts.

Click on any one to get the instructions. Then, your kids can mix potions (just like real chemists!) and make fun substances that they can use for open-ended play or to use in arts and crafts projects. Great fun!

 

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Peeps Factory Tour & Peeps Curriculum!

April 15th, 2011

Hi!  It’s Friday, April 15, 2010 and time for a Virtual Field Trip at ClickSchooling!
 
Recommended Website:
Just Born Candy

Age Range:  5-18 (Age range varies depending on the website. Parents should preview the sites and supervise use.)

Marshmallow Peeps are everywhere this time of year.  Ever wonder how they’re made?  At this website you can take a virtual tour through text and photographs of how this traditional Easter-basket candy confection is manufactured. (Not only that, you can also find out how Hot Tamales, Mike & Ike, and Zours are made.) 
 
While the tour is offered by the company that makes Peeps, you’ll find better photos of the Peep manufacturing process by CLICKING HERE.

Now for those of you who wonder how Peeps can be educational, what follows is ClickSchooling’s Original Peeps Curriculum for your enjoyment. These links take you to the original ClickSchooling reviews with links to the “curriculum” content. A couple of the links within the reviews are no longer working. (Bummer!) However, the slight disappointment of clicking on a rotten link, will soon be forgotten when you click on all of the good ones!

ClickSchooling’s Original Peeps Curriculum

Note: Parents, as always, should preview all of the websites to determine suitability of content and supervise use of the Internet.

*Peeps Math – Includes Peeps-themed math lessons for grades K-8 and a recipe for making your own home-made version of Peeps.

*http://clickschooling.com/2006/04/marshmallow-peeps-science/“>Peeps Science – These websites document science experiments conducted on Peeps — some of which may inspire your own Peeps experimentation. The studies focused on basic attributes and reactions of Peeps to simple conditions and stimuli.

*Peeps Language Arts – Watch a creative retelling of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings in a photo-illustration using Peeps as the characters.

*Peeps Social Sciences – Enjoy a Peeps travelogue and watch the amazing and funny results when you tell your co-workers that you don’t like Peeps. You can also test your knowledge of the history of Peeps by taking an online quiz.

*Peeps Art – The fist link here on “How to Draw a Marshmallow Peep” is no longer viable – so don’t bother clicking on it. But you can still get instructions for making an incredible, edible Peeps necklace -and you can view a Peeps art gallery!

See?  You can get an education without textbooks!   

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