It’s springtime! Make sure you checkout all the spring materials on this website. On the spring downloads page there are flashcards, coloring pages and worksheets. For some creative fun go to the spring crafts page, where you can find flowers, animals and other stuff related to the spring season. The spring lessons page has games, circle time suggestions, ideas for flashcards and more.
Can playing computer games improve childrens’ math skills? Researchers in Scotland (link) found out that playing Nintendo DS‘s Brain Trainer significantly improved the students’ test scores.
Students aged nine and ten completed math tests before the nine week project, and then again afterwards. All the childrens’ scores were higher, but those using the trainer improved by 50 per cent more than those who did not.
They also noticed when the pupils started the day with a twenty minute problem solving session of the game, that they had and increased attention span during the day.
According to LTS’s (Learning and Teaching Scotland ) national advisor for emerging technologies and learning, “It shows teachers needn’t be afraid to use technology in the classroom”.
Well I’m not afraid to use technology in the classroom, but I wouldn’t just let the students play games in school. As one person commented in an earlier post on this site: “I believe children need to explore and develop fine motor skills and get exercise running around outside. I think a lot of other skills may suffer (Like social skills)”. I completely agree!
Added some nice games: shape games, colour games & “happy three“.
Lots of new stuff added: Food worksheets (fruit flashcards and vegetable flashcards).
Sound bingo, go fish and word memory; Fun games to play in your classroom or at home!
Lesson ideas for the phonics theme and the spring theme.
Number games are added in the numbers theme.
All new stuff related to the colour theme: Colour games, colour crafts and colour worksheets.
All about numbers and math: number crafts, number lessons, number worksheets and number games.
Lots of lesson material about shapes: shapes worksheets, shapes crafts and shapes games.
