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We’re happy to announce the release of our popular math and English games for preschoolers and K-3 students in Kids Academy’s Online Classroom! A big selection of professionally designed learning games from our Talented and Gifted app is now proudly taking its place on the shelves of the virtual Classroom’s Library of Resources.

Let’s have a quick look at all the types of games teachers can now add to their custom-made instant Classrooms and share with their students:

From Mexico’s Día de Los Muertos to China’s Teng Chieh Lantern Festival, cultures around the world commonly recognize a celebration in honor of the dead. In America, that holiday is best known as Halloween, and while it’s not a federally recognized holiday that results in a day off from school, it is a much-loved celebration that both kids and adults look forward to during the entire month of October.  

Like many holidays, Halloween has evolved from ancient pagan customs, with this one originating in Ireland long ago. Samhain was a Gaelic religious festival that celebrated the end of the harvest season and to mark the beginning of winter.  

By the end of Kindergarten, one goal is for children to be able to identify shapes around them in the world. Not only will children learn to identify shapes, they will be able to sort and make all different types of shapes. Today’s daily knowledge boost allows children to practice the skills of  recognizing  shapes, creating shapes, counting sides and corners in shapes, and  identifying 2D or 3D shapes.

Is your little one fascinated by dinosaurs? Well, they're not alone! Most kids find these creatures awe-inspiring, and we can totally see why. Dinosaurs roamed the Earth millions of years before us, yet we never got to see them firsthand. All we know about their shape and size is from fossils and bones we dug out from the ground. 

So let’s join in on the dinosaur excitement with these 6 rawrsome DIY activities for your dino-loving kids to enjoy!

An easy way to boost early learning is to practice matching and sorting objects and images by shape, size, color, and more! The best part is that matching and sorting is fun! It feels more like a game, which is so important for young children who learn best through play. 

Kids Academy offers several lessons in different subjects that practice this important skill. All activities featured below can also be found on the interactive Classroom interface. While lessons with more than three activities are only available in Classroom Pro, all activities below can be found on the Kids Academy Website and completed using a web browser.

Today’s knowledge boost focuses on a fascinating topic: dinosaurs and fossils! Studying the ancient world teaches children about the world long before they were born, shedding light on important world history as well as interesting science facts that researchers study to better understand our world today. Moreover, the following lessons will boost your child’s knowledge and skills in social studies, science, ELA, and math. 

As kids grow older, they begin to learn the intricacies of each subject they study. In math, they learn the interconnected nature of addition and subtraction, and in ELA they examine the details of a text they used to ignore, like subheadings and captions. As they mature, it’s important that they continue to build their knowledge by digging into the details for every concept they learn. 

During their development, children undergo many changes spanning their physical, mental, social and emotional state. It’s a huge undertaking, don’t you think so? Our kids are learning so much about themselves and the world, building their personalities as they interact with their environment. It’s then easy to see that this process of growth is not without its problems—a lot of us may know these as “growing pains”. While the phrase literally refers to the leg pains some children experience while growing up, it applies to other kinds of changes as well. 

Our knowledge boost today is focused on the idea that reading is everywhere and is necessary for success in all subject areas as well as in life. Keep reading to discover a hand-picked collection of ELA, math, social studies, and science online lessons that are ready-made and support learners’ reading comprehension. 

All lessons featured below are found on the interactive Kids Academy Classroom interface, which enables children to complete each activity digitally and provides parents with an informative progress reporting system. 

Today’s knowledge boost focuses on tracing and practicing pencil strokes across the curriculum! The first, ELA, lesson is all about writing and recognizing uppercase letters from A-I. The second, math lesson tasks children with making circles and squares. Finally, the World Around Us lesson teaches kids simple words in Spanish to enrich their cultural knowledge. We also provide you with our suggestions of fun, physical brain breaks to keep learners excited and focused!