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Online Training for Teachers

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:03:00 +0000

Are you looking for professional education online training courses for teachers? Have Fun Training has online classes for teachers and educators. These elearning courses are perfect for extended learning. With these online trainings, you will be given a professional interactive training, free activities for your classroom, free educational music, and lesson plan ideas. These teacher trainings will help you become an effective teacher.

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Timeline Graphic Organizer

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:18:00 +0000

A timeline graphic organizer can be a great way for kids to see the order of historical events. Take a look back into history and have your students discover all the events that have occurred. Social Studies history timelines can be a great teaching tool for your kids.

Blank Timeline - Click Here

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Thanksgiving Writing Paper

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:01:00 +0000

Writing Paper for Thanksgiving can be used with your kids for a fun holiday activity. Your students will love writing about their favorite Thanksgiving or maybe even creating a superhero turkey using this fun lined Thanksgiving paper for writing.

Thanksgiving Writing Paper - Click Here

The Have Fun Teaching web site also has Thanksgiving coloring pages and worksheets for kids.

Thanksgiving Themed Paper - Click Here

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Color Worksheets

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:13:00 +0000

Are you looking for free worksheets that teach the different colors? Have Fun Teaching has Free Color Worksheets for Kids. Learn the basic colors with this fun color worksheets. Each worksheet will help kids learn colors either by circling a color or coloring a in different pictures. The basic colors worksheets included: Black, Blue, Brown, Green, Orange, Purple, Red, and Yellow.

Color Worksheets - Click Here

These free colors worksheets are perfect for Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade. Have Fun Teaching provides teachers and parents with free teacher resources for grades K-6.

Colors Worksheets - Click Here

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English Worksheets

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:34:00 +0000

Free English Worksheets for teachers. Have Fun Teaching is a great resource for teachers with free worksheets in many different English lessons. The English language has many unique and interesting concepts. Have fun teaching English and Language with these free English worksheets and free Language worksheets for kids.

Alphabetical Order Worksheets - Click Here

More free English worksheets:

Visit Have Fun Teaching for a complete list of Free English Worksheets.

Fun Activities for Teachers

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:35:00 +0000

Here is a list of fun activities for teachers. New activities are being added to Have Fun Teaching every day...so stay updated!

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Shape Books

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:15:00 +0000

Free printable shape books for kids. Teachers, print these themed shape books for a fun writing activity with your kids. Shape Books are a great way to inspire writing and practice writing techniques with kids. Your students will have a blast writing on these thematic shaped books. Each download comes with a cover page and a writing page. Just print multiple copies of the lined writing page for longer books.

Apple Shape Book - Click Here

Barn Shape Book - Click Here

Computer Shape Book - Click Here

More Shape Books from Have Fun Teaching:

Mazes

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:08:00 +0000

Create your own maze! Have Fun Teaching has a maze creator where teachers and parents can create a maze for their kids. This tool allows you to create a maze that is easy, medium, hard, or WOW!

Mazes for Kids - Click Here

Printable Mazes: Printable mazes for kids. Four different levels of difficulty.

Skill Levels: Easy, Medium, Hard, and WOW!

Printable Mazes - Click Here

Information: Printable Mazes. Choose an easy maze, medium maze, hard maze or WOW! expert maze. Just refresh the page to generate a new maze.

Crossword Puzzles

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:58:00 +0000

Free Crossword Puzzles for Teachers. Here are some great crossword puzzles for kids that can be used to teach basic skills or practice some things that they may already know. Crossword Puzzles can be a fun activity for learning and can be used as a transitional activity or for students who finish their assignment early.

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Here are some of the free printable crossword puzzles that you will find on Have Fun Teaching:

Antonyms Crossword Puzzle - Click Here: Quiet - Noisy, Run - Walk, Black and White - Colorful, Cold - Hot, Low - High, Go - Stop, Small - Large, Finish - Start, Smooth - Rough, Smile - Frown, Big - Little, Sad - Happy, Soft - Hard.
Benjamin Franklin Crossword Puzzle - Click Here: Bifocals, Boston, Electricity, Independence, Published, Wise.
Contractions Crossword Puzzle - Click Here: Here's - Here Is, Hadn't - Had Not, They've - They Have, Can't - Can Not, Doesn't - Does Not, They'll - They Will, We'll - We Will, I'll - I Will, Isn't - Is Not, Didn't - Did Not, He'll - He Will, Haven't - Have Not, Don't - Do Not, What's - What Is, Hasn't - Has Not, She'll - She Will, Let's - Let Us, Won't - Will Not, I'm - I Am, You'll - You Will, Who's - Who Is, I've - I Have.
Double Digit Addition Crossword Puzzle - Click Here: Nine different double digit addition math problems in a puzzle format.
Geometric Shapes Crossword Puzzle - Click Here: Circle, Hexagon, Octagon, Parallelogram, Pentagon, Rectangle, Rhombus, Square, Trapezoid, Triangle.
Homophones Crossword Puzzle - Click Here: Would - Wood, Ate - Eight, Tale - Tail, Pale - Pail, Bare - Bear, Threw - Through, Missed - Mist, Weather - Whether, Mail - Male, Be - Bee, Knight - Night, War - Wore, Peace - Piece, Berry - Bury.
Parts of Speech Crossword Puzzle - Click Here: Adjective, Adverb, Article, Conjunction, Interjection, Noun, Preposition, Pronoun, Verb.
Plural Nouns Crossword Puzzle - Click Here: Tooth - Teeth, Wife - Wives, Snake - Snakes, Party - Parties, Leaf - Leaves, Box - Boxes, House - Houses, Finger - Fingers, Knife - Knives, Basket - Baskets, Man - Men, Hammer - Hammers, Bush - Bushes, Foot - Feet, Bench - Benches, Girl - Girls, Story - Stories, Shoe - Shoes, Sock - Socks, Goose - Geese.
Rainforest Crossword Puzzle - Click Here: Amphibian, Canopy, Carnivore, Conservation, Endangered, Extinct, Habitat, Herbivore, Mammal, Reproduce, Reptile, Species.
Solar System Crossword Puzzle - Click Here: Earth, Jupiter, Mercury, Moons, Rings, Star, Surface, System, Telescope, Venus.
Synonyms Crossword Puzzle - Click Here: Hop - Jump, Hot - Warm, Stone - Rock, Start - Begin, Throw - Toss, Big - Giant, Fire - Flame, Eat - Munch, Go Away - Leave, Run - Sprint, Finish - End, Dance - Boogie, Talk - Speak, Automobile - Car.

BINGO Games

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:49:00 +0000

BINGO games can be a fun way to teach and learn new skills. BINGO can also be a great way to practice skills that were taught in a previous lesson or activity. Use these free BINGO games to teach and practice skills with your kids.

Alphabet BINGO: Printable bingo game to help kids learn the alphabet.

Alphabet BINGO - Click Here

Skills: Alphabet, ABC's, Letters, Consonants, Vowels.
Information: Alphabet BINGO. ABC Bingo.
BINGO Set Includes: Printable BINGO Cards. Red Markers. Teacher board and class set of student boards.

Noun BINGO: Printable bingo game to help kids learn the most common nouns.

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Skills: Sight words, common nouns.
Information: Noun BINGO. Dolch list of common nouns.
BINGO Set Includes: Printable BINGO Cards. Class set of student boards. Teacher BINGO cards.

Have Fun Teaching offers other free BINGO games including:

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Arts and Crafts for Teachers

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:28:00 +0000

Free arts and crafts activities for teachers. It is important to remember that learning CAN be fun...and so can teaching! It is best to use arts and crafts activities as a supplement rather than a focus. If you've been a teacher for any amount of time, you know that there can be a lesson for anything. Here are some arts and crafts for teachers.

Robot Cut-Outs - Click Here

Star Cut-Outs - Click Here

More cutouts can be found on Have Fun Teaching:

Cut-Outs are a great way to decorate your classroom, a classroom bulletin board, or for any arts and crafts activity in school.

Vowels Worksheets

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:18:00 +0000

Free vowels worksheets. Have Fun Teaching has a few short and long vowel puzzles for kids. Teachers, you will also find R-Controlled vowel worksheets and long vowel center activity.

Vowel Worksheets and Vowel Centers - Click Here

R-Controlled Vowel Worksheet - Click Here

Here are some word lists that are included in the vowel sounds worksheets:

Short Vowel A Puzzle: Bag, Bat, Camp, Can, Cat, Dad, Fan, Gas, Ham, Hand, Hat, Jam, Mad, Man, Map, Nap, Pan, Plant, Rat, Sad, Sand, Taxi, Trash, Van.

Long Vowel A Puzzle: Tape, Cage, Cake, Gate, Late, Page, Snail, Brain, Mail, Nail, Paint, Rain, Tray, Way, Day, Play, Pray, Weight, Eight, Freighter, Sleigh. (CVCe, AI, AY, and EI sounds)

Short Vowel E Puzzle: Bed, Bell, Bread, Dead, Dress, Egg, Elf, Hen, Leg, Nest, Net, Pen, Red, Sled, Vest, Web.

Long Vowel Sounds Center: Snake, Mail, Cake, Cane, Pail, Lake, Baseball, Grapes, Paint, Rake, Plane, Tank, Teeth, Bee, Feet, Tree, Pea, Sleep, Beak, Beetle, Sweep, Leaf, Queen, Cheese, Kite, Bike, Lightning, Fire, Five, Blind, Ice, Cry, Mice, Slide, Bone, Phone, Globe, Robe, Nose, Road, Coat, Rose, Snow, Bow, Hose, Bowling, Music, Utensils, Unicorn, Mule, Cube.

Animal Worksheets

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:20:00 +0000

Animal worksheets for teachers, parents, and kids. Teaching and learning can be so much fun, especially when the subject is ANIMALS. There is a certain excitement that comes out of a child when they are learning about animals. Maybe it is the connection they have to their pets at home or maybe a past experience with an animal. Whatever the reason, kids love animals! Here are some animal worksheets, animal lesson plan ideas, and animal activities that you can use with your kids.

Create Your Own Insect Worksheet - Click Here

Life Cycle of a Butterfly Worksheet - Click Here

Farm Animals Clip Art - Click Here

Animal Coloring Pages - Click Here

Compound Words Worksheets

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:24:00 +0000

Free compound words worksheets for teachers. Have Fun Teaching has a couple different compound word worksheets for kids. These language worksheets are engaging and fun.

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Compound words are two words that are put together to make a different word. Here is another worksheet for teaching compound words:

Compound Word Worksheet - Click Here

Teachers, you may also want to print out the Compound Word List. The compound words list below is a list of over 2,000 compound words sorted alphabetically.

Compound Word List - Click Here

Bat Coloring Pages

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:23:00 +0000

Bat Coloring Pages. Get ready for Halloween...Here are some free bat coloring pages. These coloring pages of bats can be a fun activity for kids on Halloween. Use these bat coloring sheets in your classroom or at home. Halloween is coming soon, now you can celebrate this holiday with bat coloring pages!

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Adjective Flash Cards

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:55:00 +0000

Adjective Flash Cards. Here are some free adjective flash cards for teachers and parents to use with your kids. There are 60 different adjective flash cards in this set. Each flashcard has a picture and matching word. You may cut out these flashcards as double-sided flashcards or as an adjective matching game.

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Adjective Flash Cards Word List: Afraid, Amazing, Ancient, Angry, Beautiful, Big, Black, Blue, Bored, Bouncy, Brave, Bright, Broken, Brown, Calm, Clean, Cloudy, Cold, Dangerous, Deep, Delicious, Dirty, Educated, Empty, Excited, Faithful, Fast, Funny, Goofy, Happy, Healthy, Hot, Ill, Juicy, Kind, Lazy, Little, Loud, Lucky, Messy, Quiet, Rainy, Rich, Round, Royal, Sad, Scary, Sharp, Slow, Soft, Strong, Tall, Thankful, Tired, Unique, Vast, Warm, Wet, Wise, Wooden.

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Halloween Worksheets

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:59:00 +0000

Free Halloween Worksheets for teachers, parents, home school, and kids. Here are some fun and exciting Halloween worksheets and Halloween activities for your kids.

Free Halloween Coloring Pages - Click Here

Be sure the check out the Halloween Puzzle! Trick or Treat...just print out this Frankenstein picture, cut along the lines, and have your students put the puzzle back together. This is a great activity for Pre-K, Kindergarten, and First Grade students.

Halloween Puzzle - Click Here

Have Fun Teaching also has fun Halloween Flash Cards. These free flash cards can be used to build background knowledge, learn vocabulary words, or play the memory game or a matching game with kids.

Halloween Flash Cards - Click Here

Science Now

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:29:00 +0000

Science Now is a new and exciting way to teach science to elementary and middle school students. This book offers 9 different stories that are content and vocabulary rich as well as being child friendly and educational. The Science Now educational activity book includes 9 high energy and exciting stories, 30 related science activities, and nearly 500 science vocabulary words with definitions. Click below to find out more about this amazing new educational experience for teachers and students.

Science Now - 9 Tales of Wonder | Click Here

What will you get in your 146 page copy of Science Now - 9 Tales of Wonder?

9 stories on major science concepts: (1) Matter & Its Properties, (2) Energy & Resources, (3) Forces, Motion & Machines, (4) Earth & the Rock Cycle, (5) Weather & the Water Cycle, (6) Earth & Beyond, (7) Cells & Bodies, (8) Traits & Behaviors, (9) All About Science
Nearly 500 Vocabulary Words are included in these 9 stories, with footnotes and a Glossary at the end of the book that collect all the terms. Almost 400 of these vocabulary words are unique, with several of the more important ones being used two or more times.
30 activities, puzzles, and learning activities supporting these 9 stories, with at least three activities per story.
17 memorable Characters that make learning each new concept an adventure.
Character Biographies with activities, so readers can get to know their favorite characters better.
Stories are written at a 4th-8th grade Flesch-Kincaid Readability Level.
An instructional tool that supports state and national curriculum guidelines for science in elementary and middle school grades.
A full color cover and high grade publisher quality paper. This is not cheap paperback style paper!
Metric Unit conversion charts.
An exciting new way to teach science that appeals to boys and girls of all ages, and adults, too.

Science Now: 9 Tales of Wonder - Click Here to Learn More

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Halloween Flash Cards

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:25:00 +0000

Free Halloween Flash Cards. Teachers and parents, Halloween is coming soon and the kids are loving it! You can already see visions of their teeth starting to rot away from all the sugar. Well, here is a free set of Halloween flashcards that you can use in the classroom for a themed learning center activity, or just a fun way to learn Halloween vocabulary.

Halloween Flash Cards - Click Here

Halloween Flash Cards Word List: apple, autumn, bat, broom, black, bones, candy, cat, costume, doorbell, Dracula, flashlight, Frankenstein, ghost, goblin, graveyard, tombstone, Happy Halloween, haunted house, hayride, jack-o-lantern, mask, monster, moon, mummy, October, orange, owl, party, potion, pumpkin, scared, skeleton, skull, spider, werewolf, witch, zombie.

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Parts of Speech Worksheets

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:18:00 +0000

Parts of Speech Worksheets. You can teach the 8 parts of speech in many different ways, but it is important for the learner to see the different parts of speech used in the context of a sentence to see how they relate to each other.

Parts of Speech Worksheets - Click Here

The following list will give you a brief overview of the eight parts of speech and their definitions:

Verb - Action or state of being
Noun - Person, Place, Thing, or Idea
Adjective - Describes a noun
Adverb - Describes a verb, adjective, or adverb
Pronoun - Replaces a noun
Preposition - Links a noun to another word
Conjunction - Joins clauses, sentences, or words
Interjection - A short exclamation

Here are some other teaching resources for the 8 parts of speech:

Patience Song

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:30:00 +0000

The Patience Song has just been released by the Have Fun Teaching web site. This song is great for teaching kids how to be patient. Use this patience song at school, in the classroom, at home, or in the car. Check out Have Fun Teaching for more Character Education Songs.

The Patience Song - Click Here to Listen

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Verb Rap Song

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:41:00 +0000

The Verb Rap Song is quickly becoming a classroom favorite for teaching verbs. This Verb Song takes on the idea of the Cha Cha Slide and will have your kids singing, dancing, and learning..."A Verb is a word it's an action word..."

Verb Rap Song - Click Here to Listen

The Have Fun Teaching web site has other grammar songs that teach the parts of speech:

You can also find: The Simile Song and the Subject and Predicate Song for teaching language arts.

Kids Puzzles

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:01:00 +0000

Free Kids Puzzles. Have Fun Teaching has some printable puzzles for kids. Follow the links to the Puzzles for Kids page and you will find A Boy and His Dog Puzzle, Fairy Tales and Fables Puzzle, A Farm Puzzle, and a Halloween Puzzle.

Kids Puzzles - Click Here

These kids puzzles can be used in the classroom as a learning center or extended learning with different themes. Teachers and parents, feel free to print out these puzzles and use them with your kids. You will also find some vowel sound puzzles for learning center activities.

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Teaching Phonics Video

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:33:00 +0000

The Teaching Phonics video is the perfect phonics activity for a classroom center. The video is about 12 minutes long and teaches your students the 44 sounds of English. This phonics movie goes over all of the different phonics sounds of the English language, shows a picture, and tells the child a sentence to go along with the each word.

Teaching Phonics Video - Click Here to Watch

This is a free phonics video from the Have Fun Teaching web site. This phonics movie can be used for kindergarten phonics instruction, phonics activities in the classroom, for your phonics lessons, and phonics practice. If you are teaching phonics to children, this video is perfect.

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Truth Song

info@havefunteaching.com (Have Fun Teaching) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:28:00 +0000

The Truth Song is now available on the Have Fun Teaching web site! This is a new character education that all the kids are singing. This song will be a perfect addition to your lesson plans. Print out the Truth Song lyrics and your students will be learning new vocabulary, increasing their reading fluency, and building their comprehension by learning this Honesty song.

The Truth Song - Click Here to Listen

Here are the Truth Song lyrics:
It’s better to be honest and tell the truth
I will follow my heart and stay true to myself
If I do something wrong I’ll admit it right away
I have no shame in the words that I say

Because I speak the truth I speak honestly
My friends all agree we share the same quality
I will tell you the truth you can always trust me
You can depend on me to show integrity

True, True, True, Truth
Honesty is what I need, it’s what I need
The truth will set me free

Let the truth be told that is what I’m about
I will raise my right hand I will shout it out loud
You won’t catch me in a lie I will not deceive
I want you to believe every breath that I breathe

I stay away from gossip I don’t believe the rumors
Sincerity and truthfulness is so much cooler
I don’t have to hide I don’t have to be afraid
The truth will conquer everything you put in my way

True, True, True, Truth
I will speak the truth with honesty
You can trust in me, believe it when I say

Hold up wait a minute speak the truth (let me hear you say)
What, What wait a minute speak the truth (let me hear you say)
Ohhhh, Ohhhh speak the truth (let me hear you say)
Truth, Truth, Truth, Truth speak the truth (let me hear you say)

Alright everybody let’s put our hands together
One world. One truth. Here we go

Print These Lyrics: Truth Song Lyrics - Click Here

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