Anyone else ready for spring yet? My kids were off of school for the last two days, and with below-zero temperatures, we have a bad case of cabin fever. I created a couple of word puzzles to pass some time and I thought I'd share them with you, too. The first is simply a genealogy word search. This is a great puzzle for parents/grandparents and kids to do concurrently, so kids have a person to ask when they might not know what some of these different words mean, or how they are related to family history. (Click on images to download PDFs.)
The other one is a crossword puzzle that I created using the website ArmoredPenguin.com. They have a nice, free crossword puzzle generator. While the answers to the crossword clues are all likely to be words that elementary-aged kids know and have heard within the context of their own families, the clues will likely really make them think, and will hopefully help them to understand these relationships in a larger context.
The other one is a crossword puzzle that I created using the website ArmoredPenguin.com. They have a nice, free crossword puzzle generator. While the answers to the crossword clues are all likely to be words that elementary-aged kids know and have heard within the context of their own families, the clues will likely really make them think, and will hopefully help them to understand these relationships in a larger context.
Here is the key to the crossword puzzle:
| family_vocab_crossword_key.pdf |
