Crash Course Kids
Seeing Stars
So you know what a star is, right? Well, if you don't, you should. We've talked about that big one in the sky a few times: The Sun! But there are a lot of bright dots in the night sky and not all of them are stars. Today, let's play a...
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Glow On
So, have you ever wondered why some stars are brighter than others? You might think it's because they're closer to us, but that's not the whole story? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina chats about how stars glow and how...
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More Practice Making Inferences {Comprehension: Inferring}
Part 2 gives practice to how to infer using clues from the book and what's in our brain. PART 1 INFERENCES: • Making Inferences {Comprehension: Inf...
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Aquatic Animals And Game For Kids
Get ready for a fun underwater adventure! In this video, kids will learn about awesome aquatic animals like dolphins, jellyfish, and turtles, then play a matching game! Can you guess which sea animal is hiding behind the correct box?...
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From Counting Cans to Feeding Families: The Math of a Food Pantry
Join us on an exciting trip to People In Need food pantry in Delaware County, Ohio! We'll go behind the scenes to see how they use math every day to help families in their community. From counting items to ensure families receive the...
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Blends and Digraphs Word Chains and Ladders
Word chains are a series of words that are used to help develop phonemic awareness, decoding, and encoding skills. This video changes one phoneme at a time to change a word using short vowels with blends and digraphs. These videos are...
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Reading Multi-Syllable Word {with mostly Closed Syllables}
This gives practice reading multisyllabic words with mostly closed syllables or short vowels. This helps kids break apart words to read and spell longer words.
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Short Vowel Word Chains and Ladders
Word chains are a series of words that are used to help develop phonemic awareness, decoding, and encoding skills. This video changes one phoneme at a time to change a word for short vowel CVC words. These videos are educational videos...
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Open & Closed Syllables
This video introduces open and closed syllables and helps kids distinguish the difference between them.
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Reading Simple Sentences {Magic e Words}
This video gives kids a chance to practice high frequency words along with silent e words. Kids practice reading a sentence word by word, and then read it all together.
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Let's Learn Blending Long Vowel (CVCe) Words
This video teaches how to blend long vowel words. We use CVCe words. Seeing the silent or magic e at the end of a word is a signal that the word may have a long vowel. Practice blending the sounds in words is an important step in...
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Let's Learn Blending CVC Short Vowel Words
This video teaches how to blend short vowel CVC words. Once kids know their letter sounds, they are ready to begin putting sounds together to learn to read. If kids need more practice with letter sounds, here is a video to practice: •...
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R-controlled Syllables {Syllable Types}
This video teaches R-controlled syllables (ar, er, ir, ur, and or) and how to read them. It is assumed that kids already know open and closed syllables. See links to those videos below. Knowing syllable types help readers read...
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Top 3 Mistakes to Avoid When Simplifying Expressions using the Distributive Property
Whether you need a quick refresher or a step-by-step explanation on how to avoid making the the top 3 most common mistakes when simplifying expressions using the distributive property, then this video is for you! I will explain what the...
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Exploring Black Markers with Chromatography
We are using a scientific method called chromatography to see what colours have been used by different manufacturers to make their black markers. Surprisingly black colour hides a bunch of bright colours. To take the experiment a bit...
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Greater than, Less than or Equal to Activity with Dice
Comparing numbers upto 6 with regular dice would be too easy for Alex, so got him 20 sided ones.
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Outdoor Activity: Anti-Gravity Water
Alex knows that every time we do an experiment the result should be different from what he normally expects to happen. This time he said that water would not spill if we turn the cup upside down. So I asked him to do just that and water...
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Touch and Feel Letter Bag Activity for Preschoolers
Alex is quite good at identifying things by touch alone. Here is the activity I put together for him. He pulled more funny faces identifying all the letters of a longer word, didn't he?
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Art Activity: White Crayon with Watercolor
If you wonder why there is always a white crayon in a set, it's to hide messages that magically appear when painted over with watercolors.
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Science Experiment: Walking on Eggs
This fun science experiment for kids totally debunks the idea that eggs are fragile. Did you know you can stand on raw eggs and they won't break? To prove the point I had to stand on eggs myself too.
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Upside Down Glass of Water Trick
Defying the laws of gravity? Try turning a glass of water upside down without spilling. Place a card over the top of the glass filled with water. Quickly turn the glass upside down, holding the card in place and then, carefully let it...
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Stroop Effect: Tricky Colours Mental Workout
Checking if interference between the contradicting information can cause problems for Alex to do a simple task - naming the colours! Try doing it yourselves! Pause the video and name colours, not the words.
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Outdoor Activity: Tree Bark Rubbing
Depending on a type of tree and its age bark is rough or smooth. Boys were interested in running their fingers over tree’s trunk to feel the texture of its bark. So we made a portfolio of bark rubbings to take our discoveries home.
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Toddler I-Spy Bottle with Animals and Rainbow Rice
Here is a quick discovery bottle I made for Max. It could be used on a long car trip or a flight because of the number of questions I could ask him to find an answer to in the bottle, like what sea creature can you spot there or what...