Your green pages: 76 Specific skill-building activities you can use right now!

53 MATH: Give the children copies of problems like the following to solve: You save 10 pennies a day. How many pennies would you have in 31 days? - How much money would you have? Challenge the children to prove their answers.

BIRD HOUSE

NATURE'S PLAYERS

55 SCIENCE: With the children, identify various elements of nature that affect people, plants, animals and other creatures, (e.g., sun, wind, rain, clouds, snow). Working in groups, the children research the elements. Each group creates a booklet about the elements and includes illustrations and facts. Have the groups share their booklets.

DUET JUMPING

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56 MOTOR COORDINATION: Using jump ropes, four or five children jump alone until you blow a whistle. Then, another child joins each of the other children jumping rope. The partners stop if they miss jumping to the rhythm of the turning rope. Two other children take their places and jump to the rhythm. The partners who jump the longest without error receive a prize.

BUSINESS CARD

57 SOCIAL STUDIES: Challenge the children to think of imaginary businesses for themselves. Give and discuss an example of a business and of a business card. The children decide on their businesses and make their business cards. ExTRA: Use the business cards for randomly choosing the children for specific activities, tasks or jobs.

SEED TO PLANT

58 SCIENCE: Have available white paper, markers, glue and sunflower seeds. On paper, the child colors a brown section of soil at the bottom. On the soil, the child glues a sunflower seed, as if it were planted. Draw a stem, some leaves and a sunflower blossom above the soil line and roots below it. The children label the plant parts.

LUNCH TREAT

BIRD CALLS

60 LANGUAGE ARTS: Call the children's attention to their displayed birdhouses (see Activity 54). The children imagine birds that live in their birdhouses. The child thinks of a story about the bird and the birdhouse during the week. During the following week, the children gather around the various birdhouses. They take turns pointing to their houses and imitating the birds as they tell their stories.

THE CLUES

61 THINKING: The children choose partners. One child thinks of something (e.g., fishing) and asks the other "What am I thinking of?" The partner responds with what the child could be thinking of. If correct, the partner earns five points. If incorrect, the child tells what he or she was thinking of, Then, the partner thinks of something and asks the question.

BEFORE-AFTER

62 LANGUAGE ARTs: Introduce opposites: night/day, stand/sit, frown/smile, etc. Invite the children to write a sentence using two of the opposite words of choice. On the chalkboard, list these and similar words: light, smile, cold, loud, yes, etc. The children copy each word and beside it write the opposite word. Then, the children write sentences using their opposites.

SUMMER MAIL

63 LANGUAGE ARTS: Give the children copies of this poem:

Summertime

The skies are blue, the sun is hot, And the days are filled with fun. For now that June has come to pass, The long school year is done. Days at the beach, the baseball park, Camp, travel here and there, Are things I can do in Summertime, For now I've time to spare. by Martin Shaw