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Take the 3 x 5 cards, and use the permanent marker to draw a line down the middle of the card, dividing it in half
On the left half of the cards, write the letters of the alphabet
Give the child the cards, magazines, scissors, and glue
The child goes through the magazines and finds pictures that start with the sound, cuts them out, and pastes on the right-hand side of the card.

Tips:

You can use all the alphabet letters or just the ones you've covered in homeschool lessons
New cards can be added as introduce new letter of the alphabet and used for review/practice
There is no time limit--it's for fun as long as it hold your child's interest
The cards can also be re-used to find items in the house that start with those letters
The cards can also be used on road trips as you drive to find things that start with the letters. Give each child a stack of cards or mix up and divide the 26 cards. The first one through their stack of letters wins. Make the game harder by going in order and the same sight can't be used by more than one child.

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Animals

Pet Puzzle--in support of providing a safe home for your pets in this game with animals

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Board Games

Bills games online--free online board games like Tic-Tac-Web, Connect, Websweeper, Concentrate

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Concentration/Memory

You don't need a store game with cards of matching pictures to have fun with this game. You can make it fun for any group and any age!

Kitchen Memory: gather items from around your kitchen and place them on a large cookie sheet.

small children: give them however long they need to study and memorize the items on the cookie sheet. At the end of the time, hide the cookie sheet of items. See how many items they can remember and tell you that they saw.

older children: Give each child a peice of paper and pencil. Then allow them 2 min. to look and study at the items on the cookie sheet. When times up, hide the tray and give them 5 min. to write down as many items as they can remember (invented spelling allowed--you can add those words to your homeschool spelling lists!)

mixed ages: Give the younger children a headstart with a minute or two of viewing before the older ones get to join. Separate the children. Have the older ones write down all the ones they can think of. Have the younger children work together and tell you what they remember. Write the items down for them and see if the younger ones can beat the older ones.

Tips:

Adjust time as desired for your children and ages

Repeat as many times as desired with different items from around your kitchen

Let your children collect the items from the kitchen and see how well you do at memory

Pick out all the items you'll need to make something to eat and make it after the game is over

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Alaskan Environmental Concentration--match up the pictures of environmental hazards to reveal a

message of responsibility

Fun Match--pick your symbols and your level of difficulty

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Dot-To-Dot

Kids R Crafty Dot-to-Dot--About 30 dot-to-dot for younger homeschool children

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Eggstable Course Game--All Ages

Supplies:

Spoons

Hardboiled Eggs

Shaving Cream Cans

Cardboard

Paper or Easel

Cups or Road Cones

Imagination!

The object:

Each child balances a hardboiled egg on a spoon and races to see who can go through the obstacle course the fastest (For onelies, just race against a timer or a parent). Here's the course that we made up--the possibilities are endless.

This can be done indoors or outdoors, as a tag team all the way down to one child, and they love coming up with ideas for the course

Send us pictures of your eggstacle course:

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Anchorage, AK 99508

1) Starting Point

race start

2) Write name in shaving cream

write names

3) Draw heart on Paper

stop to draw

4) Zig-Zag through cups

zig-zag through cups

5) Climb over piano bench

climb over

6) Make way back to finish

race back

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Geography

United States Capitals--online flashcards to practice your knowledge of the capitals in this geography game

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Grammar:

Bills games online--word and grammar games: hangman, plaid lips, brain teasers, word scram, word p.j., plus many more free online games

China, Language Arts--word search grammar games

Grammar Gorillas--Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech in this grammar game. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana. And you know, a gorilla with a banana is a gorilla with appeal.

Grammar Safari--The "grammar safari" grammar games suggested here are just that, suggestions for "hunting" and "collecting" EXAMPLES of specific words as they are used in documents accessible to anyone on the WWW -- a vast, ever-growing, always up-to-date "corpus" of language ranging over an inexhaustible range of topics, geographic areas, and users.

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Teach Health Through Health Games

Cosmetic True & False Quiz--to teach health to teens from the food and drug administration

Food Detectives Fight Back--fight the disgusting enemy of food bacteria in this health game

Food Safety Quiz--from the food and drug administration for food health game

Food Word Search--online game word seach

Help inspect a Warehouse--learn what to inspect for and then inspect a facility in this health game

The further adventures of kids safety--free health games for kids that fit the theme of child safety

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Jokes

Bird Brain Jokes--from blackdog.net. Lots of jokes with the opportunity to e-mail in your jokes

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Mazes

Bills games online--Free mazes and many other free online games

Kids R Crafty--Free mazes for homeschooled kids ages 3-5

Scooby Doo Maze (.pdf file)

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Math

Connect the dots--math game where you count and connect dots to make a picture

MathCar Racing--math game where the better you are, the faster you drive

Math Baseball--math game involving the beloved sport of baseball

Tic-Tac-Toe Squares--math game in this classic tic-tac-toe format

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Puzzles

Kids R Crafty--learn to write messages in codes

Word Puzzles--unscramble the words

Word Searches--7 different free word searches: birthday, boys names, crafts, grils names, school days,

toys, and vegetables

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Quizes

Cleveland Museum of Art--Quiz on ancient Egypt and Archaeology with answers--older children/young teens

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Spelling

Spell-A-Roo--Spellaroo can hop better than he can spell. Click on the word that is spelled wrong. If you get twenty right, you will go to the "Land of Joeys".

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Vocabulary

Stay Afloat--version of hangman. See a word, pick the letter. If you guess the right letter, it appears in the word. Hurry! Guess all the right letters before your boat sinks!

What's The Word--incorporates both reading and vocabulary with fun

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