Lorax Archives - JDaniel4s Mom

We used this truffula tree game board to work on spelling words, but I think it could be used to work on any number of learning concepts. (The Lorax learning mat I shared earlier in the week worked that way too.) By creating file folder game boards without a specific skill displayed on them we can use them for lots of different activities.

Thoughts I Had While Putting This Game Together:

The trees displayed on this file folder game have black and yellow stripes on them.

We chose:

We moved up the tree by landing on each stripe.

You could:

You may have your children land on just the yellow or just the black stripes.

There is an open space on the right of the game board to display the concepts that you will be working on while playing this game.

We chose:

We used small halves of 3×5 index cards to write my son’s spelling and word wall words on. The words were written on the blank side of the cards and placed in a pile.

You could:

You may like the idea of using a whole index card or small pieces of paper to display the questions you want your children to answer or the words you want your children to spell. Colored index cards would be fun to use too.
A bowl or small box holding the cards could be placed in the open space to keep them neat and tidy. ( Our cards got kind of messy.)
A list of questions or words that will need to be read while playing the game could be placed on the right hand side of the folder.
Dice with dots, numbers or words could be rolled in the open space on the right side of the folder. Children could add the dots or numbers on the dice when they roll them. They could read the words written on small stickers placed on blank dice that end up face up when the dice are rolled.

Just about anything could be used as game markers for this file folder game.

We chose:

We chose to use some wooden peg people as our game pieces.

You could:

There are so many things that you could use as a game marker. Here is a list of things I think would be great game pieces:

Buttons
Small tiles
Paper clips
Fun erasers
Beans
Pom-poms

Here are some other wonderful sight words games:

Building Leaf Words

Scarecrow Sight Word Game

{Printable} Writing Sight Words on a Rainbow

Tape Spider Sight Word Game

Here are some sight words games from other learning blogs:

Sight Word Cup Crash

Sight Word Parking Lot

Sight Word Shake

Sight Word Connect Four

If you do try any of the above sight words activities, please leave me a comment below telling me about it or share a picture of it on my Facebook page.

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$doctor seuss math game lorax adding with file folder$

The Lorax is one of our favorite Doctor Seuss books. One year for Doctor Seuss’ birthday (March 2nd) I made JDaniel a Lorax lunch. This year I made a fun file folder game with the Lorax for JDaniel. We used this game space to work on addition facts. It could be used to work on a wide variety of skills. I will walk you through how we used it for addition and then share with you other ways to use this Lorax folder work space.

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Addition Version of the Game

The Lorax is up in arms about the demise of the truffula trees. When it came to deciding what hands on manipulative to use for counting, I decided we had to use pom-poms. They look like the top of the truffula trees.

Each of the Lorax’s whiskers would be a work space used to display each of the numbers in the number sentence. The works spaces were made large so that manipulatives for large addition facts would fit in them.

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We used the homemade flashcards I made to review addition facts with JDaniel. (If you have store bought flashcards, that are horizontal they would work too.) We tried to center the cards so the plus sign was right under the Lorax’s nose and each of the numbers lined up under one of the whiskers. If you make a Doctor Seuss Lorax math game, you may decide to make a circle with a plus sign to place right on the Lorax’s nose. It might help your children visualize the fact.

Once the number sentence is displayed, one of us came up with the sum. My son was the one finding the sum, but we would have taken turns if he was just learning how to add.

Other Ways to this Doctor Seuss Themed Work Space

Find the Fact

Two people can play this game.One person displays the math fact on the Lorax and the other person searches through a stack of index card to find its match. The opposite of this can be done to. One person can select a card and read out the number fact. The second person can illustrate the fact with the pom-poms. One or both of the children can figure out the sum.

Speed Game

A timer can be set for two minutes. Then a child can try to display and count as many sums as they can. Why use the pom-poms when working on speed? The pom-poms can help children visualize a number sentence and sum.

Subtracting

Children can use the Doctor Seuss Lorax work space to work on subtraction facts. Children can take turns calling out and displaying subtraction facts or using flashcards.

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Here are some other Doctor Seuss Learning Activities We Have Done:

Fox in Sox Retelling Puppet

The Tooth Book Sensory Bin

Doctor Seuss Thing One and Thing Two Shape Craft

Cat in the Hat Math Mat (Free Printable)

If you do try any of the above Doctor Seuss activities, please leave me a comment below telling me about it or share a picture of it on my Facebook page .

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