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Educational Sponge Activities A to Z Countries As a class, try to name countries beginning with the letter A all the way to the letter Z. As time allows, see if your kids know where these countries are located around the world. Class Drawing Create a drawing with each student adding a part. Students will take turn going up to the board and drawing a line or shape that will connect to the previous students drawing. In order to make it more challenging, pick a topic such as person, animal, place, or thing. It will be fun to see what the picture turns out to be! Description Exercise Present an object to the class and have them come up with as many words as they can to describe it. List these words and talk about the importance of using many different kinds of description when writing. Time Left in 1999 or Time into 2000 Ask your class to figure out how many hours are left in the millennium or how many we have lived in the new one. If you have more time, have them figure out seconds. Simon Says Play Simon Says with your class. Start off by being the leader and then let other students take over. Kids love playing the game and it really can help enforce listening skills. A New Animal Have your students create a new animal using features of several other animals. For example they might make a combine an elephants head with a giraffes neck, a zebras body and a birds legs--a zebraphant! Let them be creative and come up with an original name. Pocket Count Have the class find out how many pockets are in the classroom. Let them come up with a plan for how they want to do the calculation. If you still have time, have the students find the average number of pockets and you can make a quick graph on the board. I Spy Start this activity by locating something in the room without letting your students know. Start describing the object to your kids. For example, you might say, I spy something red! or I spy something that starts with the letter G! Your students can guess what it is and