Learning with Laura

This package includes instructions and explanations for 10 fun and easy games that you can play in your class with either very few or no materials. Many of these games I learned during my days as a day camp leader and they are always crowd pleasers. As a substitute teacher, I now use these games as brain breaks or whole class "rewards" for getting our work done early or good behaviour. For each game I have provided information regarding the necessary equipment, approximate time, instructions

This is an integrated art/math assignment that I created for grade 7 students to serve as both a teacher assessment tool and a reflective piece for my students. The assignment is intended to be assigned after the students have learned and are comfortable with the variety of methods to draw parallel and perpendicular lines. Using a piece of paper with 4 diagonal parallel lines, students will create a design using only parallel and perpendicular lines. This could also be modified or extended to

This product contains everything necessary to play "SPLAT!", an awesome unit hook/introduction or vocabulary review game that was a huge hit with my grade sevens! "SPLAT!" is a basic vocabulary game that gets students thinking, moving, and working together as a team....it also gives them a chance to have fun and be a little silly! :) I used this game as an introductory hook to get my students excited about our upcoming unit on ecosystems but it could easily have been used as a review game.