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Teaching Strategies: Use the rice or sand to hide the objects, with the spoons and magnifying glasses have the kids look for the leprechaun’s gold, or find four leaf clovers.

Give each student a pre-cut hat shaped paper. Be sure to have a variety of materials to use such as paper, fabric, wrapping paper, pompoms, and tissue paper that they can glue onto their hat. This is a great way to work on fine motor skills and using scissors, have students work with paper materials first before giving them materials that they will not be able to cut with their scissors.

Another activity that I took part in was bubble painting. This was where I put paint in a tray and added water. Once this was mixed properly I got the children to use a straw and blow through it to make bubbles. Once the bubbles were there a piece of paper was placed over them to create a bubble effect picture. There were two different trays of which one was purple and the other one was orange. This is so that they were able to make their own choice on what colour they wanted to use.

Now that kids are off for summer break, you may need things for them to do outside. There will be lots of activities you can do depending on the weather and what you have available. If you want to do a fun activity with water, then you need something like a PVC sprinkler water toy.

STEM activities is the perfect opportunity to show this. One extremely fun hands-on experiment for students of all ages is to create marble runs. It has immediate results and can be challenging. You give them time limits, foam tubing, a roll of masking tape and cups. Tell them that they need to create the BEST marble run, include humps and spirals, and the marble needs to fall into a cup in the end.

-Have the children draw things that they family do together to have fun on page 11 in their workbook. -Have the children show and tell about their cultural outfit. -Provide maps, broom, garbage container etc. For the children to clean their classroom. -Provide gloves, garbage bags/container, and rake.

Ice cube water play - Put ice cubes into a bowl of warm water and allow the children to feel the ice melting and watch the cubes become smaller and disappear as they melt.

Furthermore, while students were touching and experimenting the mixture, I was around them asking questions such as, what do you think? Is ooblick solid or liquid? How can you tell? Can you roll the substance into a ball? How does the substance feel? Or describe in your own words how does the substance look like. The strategy of asking meaningful questions while students were exploring the mixture made the learning experience more meaningful. Before writing the driving question on the board I played a YouTube video of the book by Dr. Seuss, called “Bartholomew and Ooblick.” It was a long story. Hence, it made it difficult to keep students fully engaged. Next time around I plan on renting the book and reading to students. I enjoy reading to children and I’m a very interactive reader, so that won’t be a

Science activities are fun to learn and some activities can be messy. I would bring each child a small pumpkin. I would then give each child a paper that says “My pumpkin will float or sink, my pumpkin did float or sink.” The child will circle what they think the pumpkin will do then place the pumpkin in the water table to see. The second activity will be for me to take the insides of the pumpkin out and place it in a Ziploc bag and add water to make a sensory bag for each child.

The first hands-on activity is one that's easy to replicate in any junior high and high school science class. It involves taking a type of calcareous coral stand, and then regular sand, putting them in a petri dish and pouring vinegar on the two different sand types. The calcareous sand will produce CO2 bubbles since the vinegar is an acid. The lesson supplies a PowerPoint presentation for teachers if they wish to use it in their

Assess the lesson by bringing in a variety of toys that can be placed in water, such as rubber balls of different weights, frisbees, toy boats, and so on. Ask students, "Which of these toys would sink in a swimming pool and which would float?"

Even though most people think beach balls are just for the beach they make good in class games too. There are many positive effects of playing games with the beach ball. There is no limit to all the creative games that can be played with a beach ball. Out of all the games Mrs.Graham picked a fun and educational one. Studies show that doing hands on activities like this help kids brains get going and students can learn from them too. Some of those positive effects are everyone was involved and participating. Everyone got a turn to say a state and pass the ball to someone else. Everyone threw the ball respectfully so that no one got hurt. Another positive effect was that everyone had to critically think. It’s a simple way to get kids

Use a rainbow of colors. Make it a buddy game to practice, until mastered, and then students will take them home on the weekends. Weekly crafts of lower and upper case letter to make an ABC book.

Gather materials and read through the lesson. If possible, create an example matryoshka doll to share with the group.

Get fruity with your next game. Buy small apples or pear with stems – basically enough fruit so that each child has one. Before the party begins, tie a string to all the fruits. Now string them up to objects so that the fruit dangles. Every child has to stand under the fruit and try to take a bite out of it without using his or her hand. It may seem like an easy game, but soon the kids will realise that it’s a task to