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"Green" Grammar Lessons & More! | ||
| Reviewed by Diane Flynn Keith | ||
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| Resource: | "Green" Grammar Lessons & More! | ||
| Provider: | Maggie's Earth Adventures | ||
| Summary: | Age Range: 5-12 (Grades K-8, approximately) This website offers lesson plans and interactive games in a variety of subject areas including five free grammar games that help kids learn about nouns, verbs, prefixes, suffixes, word endings, rhyming words, and how to edit written work. I am focusing on the Langauge Arts games for this review. The website's objective is to educate children on environmental issues to protect and build a sustainable future for our planet. All of the games are themed around this objective |
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| Description: | When you get to the website you'll see the words, "Sign Up Here for Free Activities." If you click on that, a new page opens where you can register (free) to receive the cross-curricular Maggie's Earth Adventures Weekly Activity Packet with lessons and games that will be delivered to your email inbox. Below that, you'll see a note about the recent earthquake in Haiti, and information on how to get the current week's Activity Packet with ideas to help your students understand and work through the tragedy. Then, look at the menu on the left side of the screen and click on "Games." Because the games are in flash, you will have to click through several "intro" screens (yes, it's annoying) to get to the games page. Click on "Kids Start Here" on one screen, and another page opens featuring National Geographic's "GeoSpy" game. Below it, click on the words, "Click here for more cool games from Maggie." That will take you to a "Game Menu" page. Run your cursor over the icon menu under "Language Arts" and click on the game you want to play such as: • Clean Up Your Grammar - In this game a virtual beach is littered with bad grammar - help clean up nouns and verbs. • Edit Dan's Copy - Edit Dan's work for errors in capitalization and punctuation. • Short Circuit - Match prefixes and suffixes with their meanings to prevent a computer short circuit. • Fish 'Em Up - Catch word endings by determining if you have to double the consonant or change the y for the correct spelling. • Super Match - Find words that rhyme. These games stand on their own as fun practice work for learning parts of speech, spelling rules, and other language arts skills. They are enhanced if you use the free lesson plans available by registering to get the free Weekly Activity Packs (WAP). By using the WAP, students will see the connectedness and relevance of language arts, math, science, geography,and social sciences to environmental issues. I wouldn't classify this site as particularly user-friendly when it comes to navigation. However, whatever you click on will lead to an educational topic or activity that will engage your kids. If you have a hard time finding the language arts games, I discovered that Scholastic partners with Maggie's Earth Adventures and offers the games in a much more accessible way at the Scholastic website. Just remember you can't sign up for the activity packs from the Scholastic website. By the way, the games are available in Spanish as well! Enjoy! |
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| Contributed by: | Diane Flynn Keith, ©Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Diane Flynn Keith publishes the rave-reviewed ClickSchooling® daily ezine with 12,000+ subscribers. If you're ready to jump-start your homeschooling, save time and money, and have more fun learning with your children, get your FREE subscription to ClickSchooling® now at http://www.homefires.com/free.asp. | ||
| C A T E G O R I E S | |||
| Orientation: | General | ||
| Subjects: | Language Arts, Educational Games | ||
| Teaching Methods: | Online Interactive | ||
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| Ages: | 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 | ||
| Grades: | K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 | ||
| F O R M O R E I N F O R M A T I O N | |||
| Web Site: | http://www.missmaggie.org/ | ||
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