Playing games in your classroom is the perfect way to review skills while keeping students engaged in their learning. I like to make sure that I always have some games prepped and ready to go. Not only do I purposefully place games into my lesson plans for the week, but I also use games when…
This set of 25 Phonics Based Tic Tac Toe games makes practicing phonics skills fun. The students will play like the traditional Tic Tac Toe game, but each player will have to read the word or name the sound in the picture before placing their X or O.
Learning sight words is such an important skill for beginning readers. Goodness gracious though! Who came up with some of the spellings of our common sight words? Why does it have to be so confusing? We teach these phonics rules, and then throw more than a hundred words at our students that don’t follow those…
I finished my January NO PREP Games packet this weekend. This packet includes 5 Language Arts and 5 Math games as well as 2 whole group games. They are NO PREP…just print and play. If you have purchased my Games Galore Bundle, you can go and redownload it to get the January packet. …
It’s not even the middle of November and I have my December Games Galore packet done. I can’t believe that I’m actually ahead for once 😉 Maybe it’s the fact that now it’s so cold that it feels like December or that I’m nesting, but TpT style. This packet, just like all of my Games…
Isn’t it crazy that we are over halfway through October? It has gone by so fast and November is baby due date month! Oh my goodness! We still have SO much to do! Anyways, I did get a chance to finish my November Games Galore NO PREP Math & Literacy Games packet. This packet…
Last year, I started creating my Games Galore packets. These monthly packets include 10 NO PREP partner games {5 language arts and 5 math} as well as two whole group games. I love having them on hand when I have a few extra minutes. I also use many of them during small group stations. Students…
Last weekend I finally got a chance to finish my April No Prep Math and Literacy Games. I absolutely love these packets. I make copies of the games for the month and keep them at the corner of my desk. Whenever we have an extra 10-15 minutes, I can grab one of the games. …
I honestly never thought I would finish this in time for the TpT sale starting tomorrow, but my AMAZING husband volunteered to take our girls to gymnastics practice tonight and let me stay home to work. It’s amazing what you can accomplish in a quiet house 😉 I am very excited that I finished my…
The 3 day weekend allowed me some time to finally sit down and finish my latest unit and I am beyond thrilled with how it turned out! I’m pretty sure you already know this, but kids LOVE playing games. My students get so excited when they get to play any type of game. My own…
As the year winds down, teachers are running around like crazy! They plan fun end-of-the-year activities, clean their classrooms, and take down decorations. Honestly, there is so much to handle that teachers often feel overwhelmed by everything. So, this list provides the perfect list of essential items when wrapping up the end of the school…
Learning all about phonemic awareness and phonics is tough! There is so much to keep straight between discovering blends, digraphs, syllable types, and letter patterns. However, knowing all these crucial elements allows students to become great readers and writers. Instead of guessing how to spell words, they can use their foundation skills to identify the…
