Tag: games
13 Simple Ways to Practice Addition and Subtraction
In my day, we just memorized math. I don’t know that I ever really truly understood much of what math was nor was I able to compute higher-level skills until I started teaching math and learned how to be flexible with numbers. Flexibility with numbers is a key foundational skill for young learners and those […]
Advent Calendar 2019
Soon it is Christmas again. The scent of (homemade) cookies and pine boughs fills the houses. Children are getting excited and are wondering what Santa will bring. To shorten the waiting time, we created an advent calendar. Every day you can download a worksheet that trains visual and spatial perception: mazes, coloring, finding the difference. […]
App: Sushi Monster
Meet Sushi Monster! Scholastic’s new game to practice, reinforce, and extend math fact fluency is completely engaging and appropriately challenging. Strengthen reasoning strategies for whole number addition and multiplication by helping monsters make a target sum or product. Earn points with each correct answer… but watch out for distractions! To be successful, plan ahead and […]
Chillola
Check out the wonderful world of chillola.com where you can learn your first words in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. You can print out activities, participate in the kids’ gallery and learn about different countries, cultures and people. This site is designed for kids and their parents to encourage language learning, and to have […]
Find the dog!
Andrew Knapp, a graphic designer from Ontario has a collie named Momo, who likes to hide instead of fetching the stick. So Andrew began photographing him. These pictures were a great success on Instagram and now Andrew has a blog with pictures of Momo, who is hiding. A book is also planned! How many […]
App: Learning to draw
The app “Learning to draw is fun” will teach your child to draw easily 24 different pictures like a butterfly, a snowman, a flower, a birthday cake… Each drawing is split into 4 easy steps that your child can easily reproduce below the drawing templates. When the drawing is finished, your child can color it. […]
App: Con-nect
Con-nect is a simple and addictive puzzle game based on Arukone. The difference is that Con-nect is three-dimensional! 3D is not only more fun, but it also helps you to develop good spatial and visual perception. Like Arukone, there are only two rules 1.Connect all pairs. 2.Fill the whole cube. Con-nect is available for […]
The Christmas match game
Today’s freebie contains a Christmas matching game. There are twice twenty cards which have to be matched. But take care and look carefully: The cards seem to be the same, but every card is different. This trains visual and spatial perception – important skills for reading, writing and calculating. DOWNLOAD MATCHING GAME Also: do not […]
App: Tring
Tring breaks the mold of the traditional sliding puzzle you know and love. Ready to challenge yourself with an additional angle? The sliding blocks now interact on a three-axis triagonal grid with the goal of getting the highlighted blocks to the designated end position. With this new axis, blocks can slide and push each other […]
