Here you'll find my latest blog posts.
Community Workers Activity Bundle every teacher NEEDS for a successful classroom!
Do you teach community helpers? This set of 8 activities will engage your students as they learn different professions.
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Easy, No Prep Counting Game using Ten Frames for Engaging Math Centers!
Love ten frames? This activity is perfect for counting to 10. Great for back to school or fall math centers.
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Engaging No Prep Addition Test Prep Game your students will LOVE to play!
Practice addition math facts with this digital test prep game. Easy to setup and no prep!
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The Best Printable Community Helpers Journal for First Grade Students
I love teaching my students about Community Helpers. It’s one of my favorite units. I help with this Community Helpers...
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Achieve High Test Score for your students using these Easy Test Taking Tips!
These test taking tips will help your students score their highest on the end of year tests!
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5 Fun Easter Activities that make Elementary Students Smile
Easter printables and activities for your March and April activities.
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5 Fun St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Elementary Students
St. Patrick's Day is coming up soon. It's my favorite holiday since green is my favorite color. Here are some...
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5 Fun and Engaging Valentine’s Day Activities for Elementary Students
It’s never too late to start planning for Valentine’s Day. Let me help you with that. Here are 5 V-Day...
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Why eBooks are the best changes I’ve ever made in the classroom
I love reading fictional stories with my students. I love making voices and sound effects. If I wasn’t a teacher,...
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Improve Punctuation Skills with this Amazing Interactive Powerpoint Game
Punctuation is one of my favorite things when it comes to working with sentences. It’s an easy concept to learn....
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How to Lock Objects in Powerpoint by Teacher Gameroom
I love using Microsoft Powerpoint. I love experiment with all the many features. So one day when I opened PowerPoint...
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Easy Fraction Worksheets for 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Students
Need Easy Fraction Worksheets for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade Students? Have I got the bundle for you! This set...
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3 Ways to Make a Powerpoint Game Fun and Attractive
Wanna upgrade your simple powerpoint into something fun for your students? Take it from someone who’s created over 500 powerpoints....
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Fun Community Helpers Who Am I Digital Game Activity by Teacher Gameroom
There are so many activities to use for the Community Helpers Unit, but this game is a classroom favorite.
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13 Fun, Digital Games to keep your students Happy and Engaged!
Did you know I’ve created 13 different game types? Every game has animations, buttons, questions and answers. Each type of...
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Teach Fractions on a Number Line with this Fun Classroom Game
Learn about this digital game to review Fractions on a number line.
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An Exciting, Fun, New Way for Adding Unlike Fractions
Working with fractions can be tough. I admit though, it’s my favorite math topic! But for students, it can be...
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Get This Amazing Short and Long Vowel Game for your Students!
Short vowel? Long vowel? Do your students need help distinguishing between the two sounds? To be honest, when I first...
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Fun Reading Comprehension Resources you need to Download Now!
I love reading. As a kid, it was one of my favorite things to do. Even now, I’m still reading...
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How to use a Powerpoint in Slideshow Mode
When teachers use PowerPoint games, there are 2 questions teachers always ask me the most. “The students can see the...
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How To Manage Distance Learning: Best Tips Tricks And More
Worried about distance learning? If I've learned anything, it's that planning is everything. Start the year off right and it...
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How To Create Amazing Bagbooks For Your Students by Teacher Gameroom
What kind of bagbooks do you have in your classroom? Fabric ones from education websites? Plastic ones made from Zip-lock...
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How to Print Mini eBooks for your Classroom
Printing mini books can be a hassle, especially when it comes to the printer setting. There so many options and...
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Kindergarten Winter Math Worksheets
Winter is here. What better way to celebrate than with an array of math worksheets featuring winter! Mittens, snowflakes, hot...
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Classroom Cricut Crafts – Reading Helpers
Welcome to my first Classroom Cricut Crafts! This monthly series shows you craft ideas that you can make and use...
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Water Cycle Vocabulary Mini Game
The water cycle is teaches students about how water cycles through the earth's atmosphere, down to earth, and back again....
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Easy, Attractive Folder Labels for Any Successful Classroom
I loved making folders for my classroom, especially my weekly folders. I have many different types and including tons of...
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10 Things NOT to Forget in a Substitute Folder
What exactly does go into a substitute folder? Everyone's sub folder is different but they all include same things. Here...
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Classroom Cricut Crafts – Teacher Clipboards
If you're looking for a quick, easy gift for a teacher, this is a great gift idea! I've heard from...
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Counting Money Smartboard Activity
Learning about money is one of the most important skills a students can learn. There are many ways to practice...
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5 Easy Writing Prompts for December
Writing is one of my favorite topics to teach students. Some of their stories seems to leap off the...
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Bar Graphs Powerpoint Game
Graphs in math are an easy topic to discuss. There are so many kinds of graphs. Common graphs like bar...
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5 Easy Back to School Writing Prompts
The first day of school is around the corner. If you're not already in the classroom, you're probably at working...
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I OWE WHAT! More tips for TPT & Taxes that can save you MONEY!
I walked into my accountant's office and handed her all my information for my taxes. I received a modest return...
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How to make Task Cards from a Powerpoint Game
As teachers, we like to try a variety of different approaches to learning. We want more than just your typical...
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Using Monthly Classroom Newsletters
September is over and October is here to stay. Like most teachers, we've been in school for little over a...
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Time to the Half Hour Powerpoint Game
Teaching kids how to tell time can be a hassle. It can be confusing at times, especially when it comes...
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How to Use Exit Tickets in the Classroom
Working with students can be hard sometimes. You don't know what they are thinking, ESPECIALLY during a lesson. When I...
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5 Ways to Use a PowerPoint Game
Using PowerPoint games are wonderful! They can truly enhance any lesson and kids love it. The first time I...
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Getting the Most out of PowerPoint Games
I love games. Creating PowerPoint games is as much fun for me as playing them with my students, but there...
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5 Back to School Tips and Tricks
The first day of school will be upon before you know it. Whether you've been teaching for 20 years or...
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“The Black Box Experiment” – The First Day of School Activity
The first day of school will be here before we know it and I can’t wait! The first day...
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Using StudyJams in the Classroom
If there’s one website you need to know about, it’s StudyJams. This website created by Scholastic, includes videos about...
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February Monthly Newletter 2017
Happy February, everyone! It’s time to show some love this month!! Here’s what’s happening with Teacher Gameroom. TPT...
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What Wikipedia can’t tell you about Homework Folders!
Homework, homework. HOMEWORK! What can I say. It’s what we as teachers use to assess students when they’re not at...
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Replacing Nouns with Pronouns Powerpoint Game
I love working with the 8 parts of speech, especially if I use School House Rock videos. To help assess...
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Springing into Learning Blog Hop
I’m so excited to join Elementary Antics for a spring time blog hop! Spring is one of my favorite times...
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Making 10 PowerPoint Game
Practicing addition is a basic skill for kindergartners. This games reinforces those skills in a fun, interactive way. This game...
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5 Fantastic Tricks & Tips – Using Alignment in Microsoft Powerpoint
Welcome to my 5-part series of “5 Fantastic Tricks & Tips”. This series shows you some awesome tricks...
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5 Fantastic Tricks & Tips – Using Sections Pane in Microsoft Powerpoint
Need a way to easily separate different areas in a powerpoint? What if I told you there's a simple...
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5 Fantastic Tricks & Tips – Using the Selection Panel to Label Objects
Welcome to my 5-part series of "5 Fantastic Tricks & Tips". This series shows you some awesome tricks and tips...
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Thanksgiving Blog Hop 2015
The Classroom clique proudly presents our Thanksgiving hop! Jump from blog to blog and gather some wonderful Thanksgiving traditions,...
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Trick or Treat! Blog Hop
I’m so happy to join The Classroom Game Nook in a “Trick or Treat” blog hop! Halloween is literally around...
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Managing your TPT Store with the Ultimate Planner!
Planning your TPT store can be a hassle. Finding the right planner can be even more of a hassle. With...
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Change your File Folder icon!
This post will save Clip Art addicts! If you're like me and have tons and tons and tons of clip...
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Teaching Blog Addiction ~ Freebie Friday Link – Up
So glad to be linking up with Teaching Blog Addiction. Here’s a Forever Freebie your students will love! Working with place value...
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Working with Paper Puzzle Pieces
When your working with puzzles, it’s always great to have a little guidance. Whether you’ve been teaching for 1 year...
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Create an AWESOME Coupon Book!
Do you have coupons or reward tickets in your classroom? Here’s a fun way to organize all those coupons...
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Viva Las Vegas! A TPT Conference Linky Party
I’m so happy to join The Elementary Entourage’s blog hop! I went to the TPT Conference in Las Vegas and loved every minute...
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1,000 Follower Spectacular – Day 8
It’s here, it’s here! I finally made it to 1,000 followers. I’m so excited! I wanted to have a small huge...
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1,000 Follower Spectacular – Day 7
It’s here, it’s here! I finally made it to 1,000 followers. I’m so excited! I wanted to have a small huge...
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1,000 Follower Spectacular – Day 6
It’s here, it’s here! I finally made it to 1,000 followers. I’m so excited! I wanted to have a small huge...
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1,000 Follower Spectacular – Day 5
It’s here, it’s here! I finally made it to 1,000 followers. I’m so excited! I wanted to have a small huge...
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1,000 Follower Spectacular – Day 4
It’s here, it’s here! I finally made it to 1,000 followers. I’m so excited! I wanted to have a small huge...
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1,000 Follower Spectacular – Day 3
It’s here, it’s here! I finally made it to 1,000 followers. I’m so excited! I wanted to have a small huge...
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1,000 Follower Spectacular – Day 2
It’s here, it’s here! I finally made it to 1,000 followers. I’m so excited! I wanted to have a small huge...
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1,000 Follower Spectacular – Day 1
It’s here, it’s here! I finally made it to 1,000 followers. I’m so excited! I wanted to have a small huge...
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Liebster Award!!!
I’m so excited! I’ve been nominated for the Liebster Award!. Thank you so much M&M Bilingual for the nomination! I’d...
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Teacher Appreciation Week – Day 5
Happy Teacher Appreciation week! Every day this week, I will have a new mini game that will be a freebie...
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Teacher Appreciation Week – Day 4
Happy Teacher Appreciation week! Every day this week, I will have a new mini game that will be a freebie...
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Teacher Appreciation Week – Day 3
Happy Teacher Appreciation week! Every day this week, I will have a new mini game that will be a freebie...
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Teacher Appreciation Week – Day 2
Happy Teacher Appreciation week! Every day this week, I will have a new mini game that will be a freebie...
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Teacher Appreciation Week – Day 1
Teacher Appreciation week! Every day this week, I will have a new mini game that will be a freebie for...
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5 Helpful Tips for taking TPT End of the Month Inventory
How to do you stay organized in your TPT store? How do you keep track of all your sales? Do...
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Powerpoint Gaming’s 200 Games and Counting Celebration – Day 7
It’s Saturday, everyone! This week has been truly amazing! It’s the final day of my celebration. Here’s what up for...
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You Ought to Know About Binding Machines!
Remember when you were in school and your teacher made a class book with each student making a page? I...
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You Ought to Know About Livebinder!
You ought to know about this website I found that is wonderful and perfect for any teacher in any grade...
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Creating the Ultimate TPT Planner!
Making products can be a lot of work. Balancing home and making products is even more work. I give kudos...
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Learn Make a Simple Powerpoint Game in 7 easy Steps!
Imagine this: It’s the middle of the school year. You’re reviewing a hard subject and you kids are struggling. A...
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TpT Tips: What to Do After Posting a Product
Here are some more tips for TpT Beginners. Have you ever finished a product and posted it? Ever thought if...
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TpT Tips: 5 Tips for TpT Beginners
I’d thought I’d share a few TpT Starter Tips that I learned over the years and what I...
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Celebrating 900+ Vote Freebie #6 – Spin the Wheel
This is a brand new game I’ve created! Hopefully, it will be just as successful as my other games. Here’s...
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Celebratine 900+ Votes Freebie #5 – Multiples Tic-Tac-Toe – PPT Game
Here’s freebie no. 5. Fourth grade meaning factors and multiples! Just like regular Ti-Tac-Toe, only you have to answer...
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Celebrating 900+ Votes Freebie #4 – 3rd Grade
3rd Grade! Here we go! The game I made for 3rd grade is a multiplication jeopardy game. Since...
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Expanded Form Bingo Game
This is best Expanded Form Bingo Game I’ve used! While working with my 2nd graders, I wanted to review expanded...
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Celebrating 900+ Votes Freebie #2 – 1st Grade
Let’s get the ball rolling! My second freebie is for 1st grade. 1st Grade – What’s Missing Similar to Teacher...
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Celebrating 900+ Votes – Freebie #1 – Kindergarten
To celebrate 900+votes, I’m creating 6 powerpoint forever freebies for my store. Each day I will post them via TPT,...
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Milestone Celebrations and Negative Feedback
I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ve been working on powerpoint games, Spring Bundles, and Easter worksheets. I’d thought...
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