Can you think of any hands-on activities for kids about penguins?
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I can make a fun interactive penguin computer program for you (i need to make an activity for my class by Monday, myself)  I'll need to know if your students can use the mouse or access the computer in an alternative method.  Also, what are their ages and abilities and should it be more instructional, more fun, or equally both?  Also, what platform does your computer use? windows xp, OSX, etc.\nIt will be a powerpoint file, but you don't need powerpoint to be able to play it. let me know!
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None.  Polar bears, North Pole.  Penguins, South Pole.  Kind of a long swim there just for a bite of penguin, donchya think ;-) ?
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All of these seem to have good starts for ideas,\n\nhttp://yahooligans.yahoo.com/Science_and_Nature/Experiments_and_Activities/Science_Fairs/\nhttp://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/projectguide/\nhttp://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/\nhttp://www.scifair.org/\nhttp://www.cdli.ca/sciencefairs/\nhttp://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/cf/ideas.html\nhttp://staff.washington.edu/chudler/fair.html
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On your knees Penguin!
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Do somethings little girls like to do. \n1.Play tea party.\n2.Take walks, and talk. Point things like bugs out \nto her. Get messy and make mud pies. Why I think my\nnails are so long. I loved making them.\n3.Arts and crafts= coloring, drawing, painting, pasting.\n4.Put cut out shapes on paper with a glue stick.\n5.Read to her.\n6.Have her read to you. She doesn't know how to read yet,\nbut she can make a story up using the pictures. \n7.Let her help you around the house. Sweeping, picking\nthings up, planting seeds.\n8.Put on some music and dance. My favorite tv commercial\nis of a father dancing with his daughter. \nI used to work with children.
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how about making a board with all the sounds on it to help teach children how to spell
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* Bubbles\n* Water-guns 3 for $1 at the dollar store.\n* If you can borrow/buy a little plastic pool - they love water. If not - do you have a sprinkler? Let 'em play on that!\n* Games like pin the tail on the donkey are fun\n* Another game - don't spill the beans.  Use dried beans - like pinto beans - and let them use a big plastic spoon. Fill the spoon with a certain number of beans and have them walk from point A to point B.  The child with the most beans wins!\n* Finger paint/pudding.  Color vanilla pudding w/different color food coloring and let them 'paint' and eat on their paper plates!\n* Make plain cupcakes and let them decorate w/sprinkles\n* Silly songs and dances\n* Pinatas are fun - but watch how those little guys swing! lol\n* A puppet show with socks. Let each kid make a puppet using markers and all your mismatched socks. Glue buttons on for eyes and let them decorate the rest of the puppet w/markers.  \n* If it's a boy - let them make worms and dirt.  Make choc pudding and put it in little cups.  Let them add the crushed oreo cookies to the top (to make it look like dirt) and give them gummy worms to put in the 'dirt'. Give 'em a spoon and let them eat!\n\nHope those ideas help.  \n\n~Maxie
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I have an autistic cousin, and ive learned that they love to touch and feel things. So you could do an activity where they have lots of varying feels like cotton, different types of plastics cereals. They could make snowman from different colored puffballs. They can string cheerios and eat them. They can make bird feeders. Christmas Trees. There is so much. The ideas really are endless
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very funny\nwhat about sneezing elephant \nor penguin having cold
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Providing a safe environment is number 1.  Then let them explore through arts and crafts.  Like making bubbles with different size wands, or finger painting.  Take them on a nature hike and point out things of interest and perhaps collect a few things and make a poster of them.  How about using an inflatable pool and fill it with sand, let them create a castle....Clay is always fun, and modeling clay never dries out.  Plus taking them to the library and having them explore through  books increase their interest in reading ( very valuable) and allows for a protected environment.\n\nTry some Kitchen Science experiments too.  These are cheep and fun!
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whenever I need ideas for preschool activities I go to a - z teacher stuff. \n\nThis particular thread is about circle time activities. Actual teachers post on this website so they will post ideas that have been successful in THEIR classrooms.\n\n\nhttp://forums.atozteacherstuff.com/showthread.php?threadid=18311
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I demonstrated how to properly attach a snowboard.\n\nYou can re-string a guitar, do napkin folding, US flag folding, proper diapering,how to lift a dumbell in order to build a particular muscle, how to wrap a gift, etc.
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When I was a pre school teacher, we took an old sheet outside, and some tempra paint. You can either lay the sheet on the ground, and let kids walk through paint and on sheet, or hang it from a fence, and let them splatter paint all over it with a brush. They love it!!\nBody paint in the pool, sidewalk chalk, nature walks,plant a garden/flowers.\nYou can Google pre-school and it will list a ton of sights that have awesome ideas. One I used was perpetual pre-school.\nGood luck, and have fun!!
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When warm weather settles in, take them on a nature hike.  Most teens will think this is cheesy, but the competition will soon settle in.\n\nPlay a seeking game.  Create a list of items, with points attached, of things that are around their school.  List the scientific name (ones studied in class and some hard one for bonus pts)...deducting points if they have to ask about their common name.\n\nItems can included leaves, feathers, rocks, etc.  Make it a week long project where kids can work in teams.\n\nMy 10th grade Bio teacher did this...and even though we moaned at first at how childish the game was...we all aced our test the following week, and had a good competition.\n\n(We got some sort of reward, but I forget what it was.)
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Sheep is a good word. But I prefer to call them penguins, they waddle (must be all those pot lucks they have at church).
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http://www.tryscience.org/\n\nhttp://scienceclub.org/kidproj1.html\n\nhttp://www.energyquest.ca.gov/projects/index.html\n\nhttp://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/
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I made one in 11th grade that filled a cat dish with food....in fact, I eventually rigged it so my cat could rub into the lever that would set the whole thing in motion.\n\nOther ideas:\n- ring a door bell\n- drop a new pencil on a table\n- turn off a light switch\n- fill a glass with a bottle of water