A Few Crooked Words
Category Archives: Games
Really Exquisite Corpses
Games where you pass and fold paper to make crazy poems and stories are favorites at Frog Hollow. One of the classics is Exquisite Corpse (we didn’t name it — the Surrealists did — but we like it a lot). … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Homeschooling, poetry, Writing
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The Disaster of the Cranky Crankie
So Lady Gaga had just gotten back from space and was wearing a hotdog costume. Hitler came up to her and said, “You look like a Wiener Schnitzel.” She says to him, “This is a bad romance, Adolf.” But I … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Crankies, Education, Frog Hollow School, Homeschooling, Seattle, Summer, Teaching writing
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Wild Word Games
Summer feeling looooooong? Here are three crazy word games to occupy minds young and old. Bananagram Poetry This game works just like Bananagrams (or Speed Scrabble if you play with Scrabble tiles instead of the nifty little banana bag), but after … Continue reading
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Tagged children, classroom games, Education, Family, Homeschooling, Seattle, Summer, word games
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Math + Poems = Swagness
Today, in honor of April Fool’s Day, we pretended to do math instead of writing. We wrote a math poem, where each line had to have an equation but everything was words instead of numbers. It was so fun it … Continue reading
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Tagged children, classroom games, Creativity, Education, Frog Hollow School, Homeschooling, Language, poetry, Seattle
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