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Aileen Miracle
July 06, 2015

Implementing games and activities

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Hi everyone! In my last two blog posts, I discussed organizing your games and activities and choosing your games and activities . In this post, I'm discussing the best ways I've found to implement those games and activities that you have organized and chosen. There are a few layers of implementation. The first layer I tackle is plugging all of those games and activities into my long-range year plans, so that I remember to play them! I briefly discussed long-range planning in this blog post , but I'll give you a peek at a year plan and how I decide what to do, and when to do it! Let…

July 05, 2015

Choosing games and activities

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In my last blog post , I discussed ways to organize your digital games and activities so you can access them easier. In this blog post, I will discuss how to go about choosing the right games and activities for your students. Please note that the post isn't necessarily about singing games, but musical games to deepen students' understanding. Here is the criteria for how I choose games and activities for my students. #1: Fun and engaging Do the students ask for the game or activity over and over again? Do they get visibly excited when you say the name of the game? Then by all means, play …

July 02, 2015

Organizing your games and activities

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I've had such a great summer so far, but I know that with school a month and a half away, I should probably start thinking about the start of the school year. I'm not ready to sit down and write year plans and song lists quite yet (see this post about that process), but I am ready to organize so that the process of writing year plans and song lists is easier. I know where all of my files, games, and activities are on my computer, but when I purchase a game or activity from another seller, or when I download one for free, it can get lost in a mess of files and folders. Then, even though…

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