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December 2011
February 2012 If you are looking for a goofy time filler, I enjoy finding funny anagrams for students’ names. While I like to tell them I come up with them on my own, I don’t. Like all things, there’s an Anagram website: []
 * There are 10 more activities in the blue container in the mailroom for advisory. They all have a Holiday theme there are word searches, unscrambling words, mad libs and a wuzzle
 * Another idea would be to do the back art with the art being drawn on the back having a holiday theme.
 * Bring in a box, tape and wrapping paper (newspaper would also work) and have a wrapping race…divide the advisory into two teams.
 * Crumple up some paper, making “snowballs” and have a snowball fight. Almost impossible for anyone to get hurt J
 * Charades with a holiday theme.
 * Go caroling down your hallway.

Just type in the word (or student’s name) you want to anagram and … voila. Instantly thousands of anagrams. I like to take all the students’ names, find a funny (yet not demeaning) anagram, copy them to a Microsoft Word document and do a fun quiz.

Also, you and your class can solve the Daily Jumble (same as appears in Albert Lea Tribune each day): []

Have a happy day.

Riley [|http://www.merriam-webster.com/namethatthing/index.htm#quiz-top] I found this quiz on the Merriam-Webster online dictionary site. This is how I played it with my advisory:

I played the quiz first. In order for my advisory to win “the prize” (donuts) five students had to beat my score. They can help each other if they project the game on the smart board or screen. My kids won donuts from me, but then I told them that if I could beat the highest score I would downgrade the prize to small candybars but if I couldn’t I would add juice. Fun. Jo Ann