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Custom Designed Educational Games/Curriculum

                     Hover over the pictures to read the descriptions and learning objectives of each game.
"Wise Mind Wheels": learn ESL with, "The Wheels on the Bus"! Listen, sing, move, and visualize your way into learning! Skills: vocabulary, listening, sound recognition, real-life applications, American culture, repetitious learning, cognitive development, pronunciation, articuation, gross motor
"Kinder-Prep Paw Patrol": roll, add the dice together, when you land on pick an action, literacy, or math bone, complete the task on the bone to move forward to the dog house! Skills: literacy, math, fine motor, gross motor, ability to follow 3-step instructions, visual tracking
"Rhyme and Rescue": put the fire out on each floor, then read the rhyme and complete the sentence. Find the object that belongs on that floor and bring it safely home! Skills: reading, writing, rhyming, phonemic awareness, cvc words, decoding, letter formation, fine motor
"Mssng Vwls": spin and move your car to pick a vowel or a consonant card. If any of your cards fit together to make a word, you get a point. The first person to make 10 words wins! Skills: reading, vowels, consonants, short vs. long vowel sounds, letter/sound recognition, counting, visual tracking
"Two Who?": roll the dice, if you land on "open a gift", unwrap one. Match the color and number on the gift to a gift on the board. When all your gifts are in place and you make it out of the house, you win! Skills: number/color recognition, spatial awareness, counting, tracking, fine motor
"Build a Sentence": take turns placing a Lego with a word or punctuation mark on it to build a sentence together! Skills: sentence structure, reading, writing, sight words, punctuation, grammar, fine motor, visual tracking
"Where's Walrus?": spin, count and move your car. When you pick a card, read the letter, flip the timer and use your tires to cover all the items that start with that letter. Skills: letter/sound recognition, time management, visual perception, tracking, spatial discrimination, counting
"Delivery!": Spiderman and Elsa place their birthday orders. Read, fill, and add the orders together, and then delivery them! Skills: Addition, counting, number sense, one-to-one correspondence, letter/sound recognition, writing, reading, sight words, colors, fine motor
"Twirling Tornado": each card has kinesthetic directions to follow while moving from one grassy knoll to the next. Use the magnetic tornado to rescue 1 number at each stop to bring to the house and make a number bond. Skills: number bonds, gross motor, 2-4 step directions, reading, fine motor, magnets
"Snakes and Snails": measure the snakes in the garden, record the data, and create a bar graph. Then (after estimating), use the snails to find the area of the garden. Skills: measurement, area, length, width, recording, organizing and analyzing data, estimating, charting, graphing
"Houston We have a Problem": find the 3 parts of each rocketship by matching the upper case, lower case, and picture on each piece, and put them back together. Skills: letter/sound recognition, phonemic awareness, decoding skills, upper/lower case matching, fine motor
“Baseblends”: Roll the dice. 1=single: pick up a beginning blend at 1st base. 2=double: get a middle sound at 2nd. 3=triple: get a suffix at third. 4= home run: get 1 of each. Make words and get points! Skills: reading, blends, letter/sound recognition, digraphs, suffixes, word building
"Window Webs": a number is on the door. Spiderman will shoot either a green or red web at a window that you choose. Do the math problem inside the window. If it equals the number on the door, keep your web there. 3 in a row wins! Skills: basic math skills and concepts, strategy, number recognition
"Trick or Treat on Number Street!": When Ghosty sings, read the number in her mouth. Go trick or treating at the houses and find the candy with the matching number of objects on it and feed it to Ghosty! Skills: counting, one-to-one correspondence, number recognition
"How Far Will You Go For A Yellow Lego?": roll the dice, if you land on "pick a card", trace the number and color, then take those Legos. When you win, use your Legos to build something creative! Skills: tracing, #/letter/sound recognition, counting, 1-1 correspondence, sight words, fine motor, reading
"Write With Your Hand in Sand": at the beginning stages of writing, writing letters can be much easier without the pressure of holding and controlling a pencil. Skills: sensory, fine motor, writing, visual processing, letter recognition and formation
"I'll Be On the Sales Floor of the Lego Store!": experience being the costumer and the cashier at a Lego store! Skills: money math: addition, subtraction, equivalent coins, counting, one-to-one correspondence, conservation, skip counting, coin denominations, reading, sight words, money symbols
"I Think You Have Something on Your Teeth": count the dots on the teeth. Velcro each tooth to it's corresponding number. Skills: one-to-one correspondence, counting, number recognition, fine motor, spatial awareness
"Alphabet Soup": I will name an ingredient and you will figure out what it is by what letter it starts with, then throw it in the bowl and mix it to make up to make alphabet soup! Skills: listening, letter/sound recognition, gross motor, fine motor, phonics, visual motor integration
"Feed Me!": after fixing the mouth's teeth and making the soup, it is time to feed your costumer! Using the tongs, pick up each ingredient, repeating it's name or coming up with a new one as you feed her! Skills: letter/sound recognition, fine motor, spatial awareness, gross motor
"You Can Count Me, I'm The Gingerbread Man!": race a friend to find, count, and record all the shapes on your gingerbread man before the time is up! Skills: shape recognition, reading, sight words, counting, writing numbers, time management, visual perception
"Sometimes Less is More": create two Lego stacks and compare their height. Write your estimation (more/less than/equal to). Then count each stack and see if you were right! Skills: comparing amounts, math symbols, estimation, counting, fine motor, visual motor integration, visual perception
"Shape Factory": your favorite character has sent in an order on the "computer" (board). Read it, fill it, write the number on the truck, and make the delivery! Skills: writing, reading, sight words, decoding, number/letter/sound/shape recognition, counting, number sense, conservation
"Getting our Kickxes Learning Prefixes": twister with twist! Determine where to go based on the word and/or definition given. Skills: prefixes, reading comprehension, vocabulary, context clues, grammar, spelling, gross motor, spatial awareness, visual perception, visual-motor integration.
"Addend to the End": roll 2 dice and add them together (ext.:, add a 3rd dice and subtract), now find the addend you need to make 10 (or 20) and turn that stick over. Win when all your sticks are turned! Skills: addition, subtraction, addends, number value, number sense, one-to-one correspondence
"Hide & Seek Letter of the Week": after doing a song and dance, hunt for "A" (in this case) objects, label them, then listen to a story about them, putting your thumb up when you hear an "A" word. Skills: letter/sound recognition, letter formation, decoding, auditory skills, focus, fine motor, writing
"Animal Adaptation": experience what it's like to have a polar bear paw in an icy habitat, webbed fingers in water. and claws digging for food through dirt! Skills: life science, cause and effect, problem solving, scientific inquiry, comparing and contrasting
"Two Words Forever Bound to Make One Compund": sort the letter blocks, unscramble them to make words, connect the words to make compound words. Skills: reading, writing, compound words, vocabulary, letter/sound recognition, visual discrimination, fine motor, visual perception
"A Sight For Pouring Skies": unscramble the letters under each cloud to form a word. Write the word on the list. Each letter of each word counts as one point. Skills: decoding, phonemic awareness, reading, writing, sight words, spelling, blends, digraphs, suffixes, prefixes, roots, organization of thought
"Bouquets in a Vase": match the number on the vase with the number of flowers in the bouquets. Extension: name the shape of the vase. Skills: counting, one-to-one correspondence, number recognition, shape identification
"Shaping Patterns": identify the shapes and complete the patterns (AB, AAB, ABB, ABC, ABCD), then create your own pattern. Skills: identifying shapes, patterns, organizational thought, cognitive development
"Green Lego, Blue Lego, One Lego, Two Lego": Copy and complete the patterns on the cards using Legos (with my students, anything goes with Legos!) Skills: patterns (AB, AAB, ABB, ABC), colors, shapes, sorting, fine motor, cognitive development
"Crack the Code": student is given a sheet with a secret code that must be crack by using the key to translate numbers to letters. Then he throws the beanbags on the letters to spell the word. Skills: gross motor, #/letter/sound recognition, reading, writing, spelling, cognitive development
"End All With Addends": spin the wheel. When you land on a number, find the addend that it needs to make 10. Color in the addend on the board. Whoever gets to the end first wins! Skills: addends, addition, subtraction, number sense, math symbols, tracking, problem-solving.
"Bat-bat Signals": matching game. Flip over two bat signals and try to find a matching pair of upper and lower case letters. Skills: identifying upper/lower case letters, letter recognition, memory, cognitive development
"Cut in The Middle With You": You will get a card, put your fingers on the vowels, count the consonants between your fingers, follow the syllable rules, and cut the card where the syllables break. Skills: Identifying syllables, vowels and consonants, reading, writing, literacy
"Losing My Marbles": I put marbles in a sock, you feel in the sock and estimate how many there are. You write your estimation, pour them out, count them, and write the actual number. Skills: estimation, counting, sensory, fine motor, 1-1 correspondence, writing #s
"Having A Ball": after reading, pass the ball back and forth. Answer the question written on the section facing you when you catch the ball. Skills: reading comprehension, sequencing, conceptual thinking, summarizing, drawing conclusions, problem solving, cognitive development
Example of scrapbooks (made for homeschool students):
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