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Curriculum Area: Holidays |
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Curriculum Area: Holidays |
Instructions: Click on any activity's purple underlined title for more information and a chance to download the activity.
"Follow the Easter Bunny" is an activity that uses clickable invisible buttons to guide children through the story as they pursue the Easter Bunny to his final destination. As the Easter Bunny hops through the pages, the child is asked to click on where the Easter bunny is "hiding" or "where you last saw him". We will be using this activity to assist in visual tracking and to also help teach the concepts of "in" and "behind" for early learners.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Holidays.
"Remember how much fun it was to color Easter eggs? Remember how un-fun it was to clean up the mess? Avoid the mess by coloring a digital Learning Magic egg instead! "Paint The Egg" is a switch accessible activity that allows your students to paint multiple stripes on an egg by choosing colors from a toolbar with twelve distinct colors available.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Holidays.
This activity is written using the Learning Magic, Inc. TGCR template that was made popular in our Comprehension CD. In this template, the child is presented with a graphic and related text box , and that page is then followed by a page with a multiple choice question to ascertain the student's comprehension of the previously read materials. After reading this activity, students will know many new things about the Pilgrims, starting with the fact that their ship's name was originally "Mayflawer", not the Mayflower as we know it. Get into the mood for Thanksgiving with a story about ship itself, its route, and what it was like traveling to America to start a colony
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and History.
The child is presented with a picture of a dilapidated house (Haunted House) and is asked if they can help find out who lives in the house. A click on any one of the seven windows or doors will provide a glimpse inside the house. Each window or door has an appropriate Halloween based character or characters behind it. Sound effects and IntelliMation accompany the characters.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Cause and Effect.
This Halloween based puzzle is created in the Learning Magic three piece puzzle template. With each click, part of a Halloween scene is revealed and a Halloween sound is heard. Once the child has clicked three times to remove all of the puzzle pieces, they can click a fourth time and they will receive the final reward. A large number of Halloween characters emerge along with a final sound effect, and a concluding auditory message of "Trick or Treat".
Grade level: Birth to 5 and K-2. Curriculum area: Cause and Effect.
Halloween Subtraction to 9 is based upon the NEW Learning Magic "Subtraction Plus" template. In this template we not only track the correct mathematical calculation but also track and check that the correct objects (i.e. children dressed as ghosts and or witches) are put into the counting boxes as described in the text box above.
Grade level:K-2. Curriculum area: Math.
It's Halloween Night and you have to report upon the happenings of the evening in your local newspaper. This activity utilizes the IntelliTools Classroom Suite® "Science in the News" template but with all-new resources. This includes two background pictures, a 1850s graveyard and a dilapidated house to use, and appropriate clip art including, bats, dracula, witches, ghosts, a skeleton, a werewolf and frankenstein to create your initial scene. Then insert the picture into the newspaper and write the article.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts.
This easy errorless writing activity provides children with seven sentences about various activities and items associated with Valentine's Day. Sentences and images are provided in each case and represent the actions of giving flowers and chocolates plus providing images of cupid, heart shaped cookies and more. .
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts
This activity is based upon the Easy Writing template and provides children with the "beginning sentence" of "Saint Patrick's Day is" followed by seven Irish symbols of the holiday. When clicked, each of the symbols completes the sentence with sentence endings that relate to leprechauns, dancing the Irish jig, looking for pots of gold etc.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts
The activity "Saint Patrick's Day" is based upon the IntelliTalk 3® Writing in Science template and provides children with eight images relating to Saint Patrick's Day. A corresponding word bank provides appropriate words to write about Saint Patrick's Day and the items associated with the Irish. Images include the four leaf clover, green hats, shamrocks, leprechauns etc.
Grade level: 3-5 and K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts
This activity is a puzzle similar to the US Puzzle that ships with IntelliTools Classroom Suite®, but with three pieces instead of nine. Each click removes a puzzle piece until the final surprise. In this case, the fourth click sets off a Fourth of July fireworks display, complete with whooshes, bangs, and cheers.
Grade level: Birth to 5 and K-2 Curriculum area: Cause and Effect, Holidays.
In this activity pictures and sentence endings to the "Independence Day Is" sentence starter include: "The fourth of July", "celebrating America's Freedoms", "watching fireworks", "family picnics", "watching the parade", "red, white and blue hats" and "waving sparklers". Students can use this errorless writing template to write about the holiday.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts, History.
