 | Melissa & Doug Children Around the World Floor 48-Piece Floor Puzzle
Buy new: $9.99 I like these circular floor puzzles. Some kids struggle with puzzles and scale does help or change things up.
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 | Kids' Book of Chess and Chess Set by Harvey Kidder
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 My favorite children's set, the book is wonderful. Exactly the place to start.
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 | Sesame Street Wood Activity Cube
This for the little ones.....
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 | BRIO Natural Blocks - 50 pcs
Buy new: $17.49 I think building with blocks should be mandatory for childhood. i open my room unpaid an hour early to steal the time for this. Construction of community, meaning, design in 3 dimensions starts with actual hands on work
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 | Classic Embossed Alphabet Blocks ABC
Buy new: $31.99 I have buckets, as first graders begin to write they love to arrange in sentences.
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 | Wooden Pattern Blocks
Buy new: $14.95 My fascination is always with children that stack these or turn them sideways. Of course excellent for design.
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 | Magnetic Poetry Magnetic Poetry Writer's Remedy
Buy new: $13.89 I have a magnetic whiteboard so I have lots of sets of these to write words, sentences. I , myself, prefer this set and love to arrange little haiku's
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 | Magnetix 150 Count - Hot Metallics
I have 15 sets which my husband borrowed and did not return which actually infuriates me...anyway with these you can construct tetrahedrons and begin to understand basic design...use in conjunction with Bucky Fuller
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 | Melissa& Doug 200-pc. Wood Block Set
Buy new: $31.75 Another block set with color, i prefer the natural ones...
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 | Melissa and Doug Architectural Unit Block Set
Buy new: $31.24 I have a few different styles, Greek, Art Nouveau, Bauhaus...very good to construct your design then render using perspective systems.
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 | Big Alphabet and Picture Stencils
Buy new: $15.48 Whatever sets you get rubber stamping is quite a thing to get yourself into..
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 | Tails Coin Stamp Set
Buy new: $8.99 I like to run a model economy with money, checks and other things including the store...so here you can stamp and work on money problems.
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 | AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE STAMP SET
Buy new: $24.95 I teach sign...this is a wonderful follow up as we write a sign name chart, etc.
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 | Classic Cash Register
Buy new: $37.77 These are awesome for learning money.
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 | Fisher-Price Dora's Talking Cash Register
Buy new: $32.98 This looks even better.
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 | Pass the Pigs
Buy new: $12.89 I got this game one morning to have a center activity. They loved it, I think we were reading Charlotte's Web
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 | MAGIC 8 BALL®
Buy new: $6.49 I need one. Now my 1st grade can read it..."No way"
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 | Deluxe Turntable Scrabble
Buy new: $44.98 Depends on the year but sometimes I do have 1st graders that play this just fine.
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 | Connect Four
Buy new: $14.99 Altho they do break I think this game is an all time class over the years favorite
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 | Candy Land - Milton Bradley Board Games
Buy new: $12.47 / Used from: $6.95 It's first grade. This game is the one they feel the safest playing.
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 | Hasbro Operation
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.00 Perhaps i can't defend this as a "learning" game but i can recall the year I got one. It was something due to my very shaky hands I could never play.
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 | Battleship
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $14.99 Greatest teacher of coordinate systems
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 | Pictionary Jr
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $14.95 And another great way to learn and practice visualization albeit rapid
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 | The Original Colorforms Set
Buy new: $22.37 My favorite as a child, this set is absolutely divine.
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 | Clue
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $8.95 Is it Mr. Blueberry in the OR with a paperbag or Mrs. Mustardseed in the garden with an apple?
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 | Yahtzee
Buy new: $7.99 I love this one though I can't always teach it to every child. I try. So we go with the ever loving "partners"
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 | Mousetrap
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $11.95 Putting this together is a tinker's paradise. All kids need to learn to put together. Do this with someone and you are bonded for life. All these dumb team building adult activities should just substitute a box of this an two eager and rather impatient kids. You will soon learn a lot about cooperative work.
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 | Crocodile Dentist
Buy new: Too low to display I like this one. no redeeming value I guess but I like to laugh and this makes me laugh.
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 | Cranium Whoonu (Tin)
Buy new: $14.89 Like all Cranium games....
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 | Scrambled States of America Game Card Game
Buy new: $11.79 The book is darling, game fun.
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 | Hasbro The Game of Life - Bikini Bottom SpongeBob SquarePants Edition
Buy new: $28.45 / Used from: $23.95 Lots of Life variations, this one a first grade favorite.
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 | Zometool Bucky Ball Kit
Buy new: $19.95 Excellent construction kit.
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 | CHECKERS CHECKERS ONLY
Buy new: $3.39 For all those that are not ready for chess or want a different game.
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 | Jumbo Checkers & Backgammon Game Rug
Buy new: $16.67 I own this, have used it for years. Kids like scale changes.
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 | JAR OF MARBLES by Mega Marbles
Buy new: $10.49 I'm not sure why but they are ever "in"
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 | Jump Rope Rhymes (With a Special 8-Foot No-Twist No-Tangle Rope!)
Buy used from: $0.01 I love the rhymes.
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 | Premium No-Kink® Hoops - 24" (DZN)
Buy new: $56.09 It's wonderful to watch this....I still can't really do it, not really.
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 | Ohio Art Classic Etch A Sketch
Buy new: $14.99 I loved this as a kid and in my class I always have a few that are captivated, we tend to be a little different...
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 | Classic Magna Doodle (Assorted Colors)
Buy new: $19.99 I had a set of 20 stolen. One day I'll buy again.
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