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Drape a cloth over a small table and have someone dress up as a fortune teller. Use an empty fishbowl to create a crystal ball. You can have kids choose a fortune cookie or make up your own silly fortunes!
You need 10 “rockets” (small objects such as clothespins, pebbles or pencils). And you need 10 paper or plastic cups in different sizes. Write numbers on the bottoms of
A carnival favorite!
different-sized cups. Place the cups in a group on the ground. For one ticket, kids get to send 10 “rockets” into the cups. Add up the numbers on the bottom of cups in which the player landed a “rocket.” Have prizes for the player to win with their points.
Unscramble the mixed up words in each funny fortune.
Standards Link: Number Sense: Add and subtract whole numbers.
BACKYARD CARNIVAL ROCKET TREASURE FORTUNE
Newspaper reporter Monty Molenski needs to find a good story to please the editor. He bumbles along, oblivious to the ghosts, aliens, vampires, and other shadowy characters roaming the city! Fill in the missing vowels in the title of this book. Then, check it out at your library this summer!
Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways, and diagonally.
K T O P K C A J L
S R R G A M
A O E R I L N R S
N C Y E S P U C E
D K A A I S T H I
G E L R A K R T D
U T P E N A O O N
E S R C N I F O A
S T O
S D R A Y K C A B
COOKIE PLAYER JACKPOT CANDIES GUESS GAMES CUPS TOSS BOOTH SAND
S S
V V B C
E S E
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Standards Link: Spelling: Spell grade-level appropriate words correctly.
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