Ready for Some Football?
Ready for some football? The big game is quickly approaching–unfortunately the Lions won’t be playing so I’m not sure who I’ll be cheering for. Anyway, Super Bowl Sunday is really fun at our house. We typically gather with our close friends and make a night of it. I’m thinking maybe the Ravens?
To celebrate the big game, Kyle and I quickly whipped up a fun sight word activity. All you’ll need to do is print the footballs single-sided to double-sided (I usually print them on cardstock), cut them out and you’ll have a ready-made game! This activity is easily differentiated as you choose how many and which sight word footballs to use. To play the game, students take turns choosing footballs and reading the words. Pick the “touchdown” or “field goal” football and the player can choose more footballs, but pick the “penalty” football and all the balls go back in the pile. This game has been a hit with the boys!
Click HERE to download this activity from my TpT store
I love the little football that Kyle created so I also made it into a math activity for practicing addition facts to 12. You can also modify the game for subtraction.
Click HERE to download this freebie!
Sometimes it’s difficult to engage our little boys, especially those who are struggling. The Race Car Blending activity has been quite popular with these kiddos. The students blend the sounds as they are moving the car across the letters.
Click HERE to download this activity from my TpT store
If you are a football fan, enjoy Super Bowl Sunday!
Mitten Match
Oh my goodness–it’s another SNOW DAY in Northern Michigan! It is so snowy and windy outside, it’s crazy. Well, with this unexpected day off I was able to finish all the mitten projects. I’ve created 4 different mitten activities- 2 for reading and 2 for math. Feel free to download the number concepts and addition mittens from this blog post–I’ve attached the downloadable files.
So, all you’ll have to do is print the mittens and cut them out. You may want to print them on cardstock so that they are durable. You’ll need clothespins so that your students can clip the mittens together. This is so not necessary, but I decided to “cutesie” up the clothespins by attaching little snowballs on the ends. I picked up this foam packet at Micheal’s Craft Store. There’s a variety of shapes to use for different activities.
You can find the snowballs on a template of 4. Simply peel them off and put the on the end of the clothespin.
When you download the Mitten Match Rhyme, you’ll receive 30 rhyming mitten pairs!
Click HERE to download this activity from my TpT store.
Click HERE to download this activity from my TpT store.
Now for the Mitten Match Math- You can download the Number Concepts to 10 and the addition facts to 10 for free.
Click the following link to download this freebie Mitten Match Math
Click the following link to download Mitten Math for Addition Mitten Match Math Addition Revised
Lovin’ my snow day! Hope you have a white Christmas season too.
Halloween Themed 4-In-A-Row Game Boards for MATH!
Kyle (fabulous artist) created these adorable 4-In-A-Row game board templates for the Halloween Themed 4-In-A-Row Sight Word Game and I just thought they would make for a cute math center too! When you download this freebie you’ll receive 4 different math games for practicing basic addition and subtraction facts.
Click HERE to download 4 FREE 4-In-A-Row game boards for practicing addition and subtraction facts.
Monsters and Aliens, Oh My!
Well I made the Candy Corn Alphabet activity with a cute little box found at JoAnn Fabrics and the Halloween Rhyming game with plastic discs found at Michaels Craft Store; I just couldn’t leave out my other favorite craft store- the Hobby Lobby. While on my shopping trip with my daughter in the “big city” of Lansing, we stopped by the Hobby Lobby and found these cute little foam aliens. I thought they’d be perfect for a Halloween-themed math center activity. Okay– there is some assembly involved, but aren’t they so, so cute? There are a total of 30 aliens! The directions for assembly are on the pdf which you can download for free.
This is what the package looks like.
Click the following link to download this FREE pdf Monster AdditionAlien
I asked my fabulous artist, Kyle, to whip up a few cute little monsters. I have to say I’m lovin’ that adorable one-eyed red monster. I hoping to use him in another Halloween-themed activity. The Monster Addition game is great for practicing math facts to 20.
Click HERE to download the Monster Addition activity from my TpT store
A few months ago I posted the Classroom-Sized Monster Sight Word Game Board. There are 220 monster feet with words from the Dolch sight word lists 1-9. Place the feet around your classroom for a giant game board!
Click HERE to download the Classroom Sized Monster Feet Game Board
Counting Bugs!
I’ll admit it, I love my cup of coffee in the morning. For a month now, I’ve been looking at the blue plastic Maxwell House container thinking that there must be some way to incorporate it into an activity. Then it hit me. Stick a label on the container and it’d be perfect for storing clothespins for a math game.
To make the “Counting Bugs” activity, you will need 10 paint sticks, 53 clothespins, and a coffee can container. You don’t really need to paint the paint sticks, but they look so cute if you do. I had my friends at the Home Depot make samples of green and blue paint for me. It costs about $2.50 a container. I used Modge Podge to adhere the number sticker on the end of the paint stick. This activity will make a great math center activity for preschool or kindergarten.
Click HERE or the pic below to download your free Counting Bugs Activity. Bugs, number tabs and a label are included.
Strike Me Out! Fun Baseball Game for Addition
I drive past the baseball fields everyday on my way home from work. It’s always fun seeing the baseball fields filled with kids playing this all American sport. To celebrate the beginning of baseball season, I’m posting this fun little freebie for practicing addition facts to 12. Enjoy!
Click HERE or on the above pic to download this freebie.
