Free Interesting Facts For Teachers - "Of Mice and Men"

Here's a mix of facts:


Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
The total combined weight of the world's ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
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Free Parent Involvement Activity - "Color Flip" - Grades K-1st

Counting

Glue green and yellow construction paper together, back to back. After the glue has dried, cut the paper into sixteen similarly sized cards. They will be yellow on one side and green on the other.

Take these and lay eight green cards and eight yellow cards face up between you and your child. Let your child choose which color she would like to play with during the game.

To play the game, you and your child take turns throwing a die. The number on the die will determine how many of your opponent's cards you will be able to "flip over" to your color. For example, if your child rolls a two, she will turn over two of your green cards so they are yellow (her color).

A player wins when she succeeds in rolling the exact number necessary to allow her to flip over the last of her opponent's cards.

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Source: Bright and Beyond, Smart & Simple Math Activities to do with your Child, Grades Kindergarten to 3rd, Ages 5-9. Available at Schoodoodle.com.

Free Parent Involvement Activity - "Animal Songs" - 3-12 month baby

Language Skills, Imagination

Add props when you sing songs to your child. for example, gather toy animals and make them dance around at the appropriate time during a rendition of "Old McDonald Had A Farm." Other songs to which you can add animal props include, "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," "Five Little Ducks," "The Bear Went Over The Mountain," etc.

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Source: Bright and Beyond, Smart & Simple Baby Activities to do with your Child, Age 0-12 Months. Available at Schoodoodle.com.

Free Interesting Facts for Teachers - "Planet"

Here's some facinating facts about our solar system:

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.

If you attempted to count the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second, it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

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Interesting Facts for Teachers - "Legs"

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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Interesting Facts for Teachers - "The Eisenhower"

In case you're traveling this week and get bored while driving, here's a little interesting fact to help you wander...

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

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Free Teacher Joke - "Contractions"

Teacher: If "can't" is short for "cannot,"
what is "don't" short for?

Student: Doughnut.

FREE INTERESTING FACT FOR TEACHERS - "Patriotism"

Did you know...

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. The last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.

Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star Spangled Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem.

The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.

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