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 celebration. So big it would take an entire week to celebrate! Each day will includes spectacular new games, $1 Deals & freebie steals, and much, much more! You can find out more with in my 1,000 Follower Spectacular Invitation.
Let’s begin with the Gift Card giveaway of the Day! Today, you can win a $25 gift card to Teachers Pay Teachers. This means any store at any time. Fonts, games, clip art, Oh my!
Today’s $1 Deal is for 3rd grade teachers. I have a lot of time games, but very few for the topic “Time to the Minute”. I think I only have one, in fact. I decided it’s time—hee hee, ya see what I did there— to make another!
In this “Bingo” game, students are telling time to the minute. This games was a doosy to create (taking almost 3 days). There are 25 clocks to choose from.
You can randomly choose a box by clicking “Board” or play in order by clicking “Next”.
It comes with 30 game boards, call sheet, and 2 sets of printable chips. There are 2 cards per and1 set of printable chips per sheet. You can prepare a head of time or ask as few students to cut them for you.
Today’s freebie is about the Solar System. It’s another Who Am I game with the clues asking for what planet it is.
In this game, students are given 3 clues to a planet in the solar system. Clues include distance from the sun, nicknames, and description of the planet.
That’s all for today. Be sure to stop by my Facebook page for some flash freebies starting at/around 5 pm EST. Click “Get Notifications” so you’ll know when they start!
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 celebration. So big it would take an entire week to celebrate! Each day will includes spectacular new games, $1 Deals & freebie steals, and much, much more! You can find out more with in my 1,000 Follower Spectacular Invitation.
Let’s begin with the Gift Card giveaway of the Day! Today, you can win a $25 gift card to Starbucks. Although I don’t drink coffee, I love their Vanilla Bean Frappuccino. Mmmmm. Just thinking about it make me wanna get one!
Today’s $1 Deal is for 2nd grade teachers. 2nd grade holds a special place in my heart. It was the grade I taught before I had to leave to classroom and I miss it so much. One topic I loved doing with them was measuring. Hence, this game was born!
In this “Find the Star” game, students answer 25 questions to find stars hidden behind 25 blocks. There are 7 stars to find and students have to answer questions correctly to be able to choose a square.
When it comes to measuring, the first thing comes to mind is tools. Students are measuring different lengths of nails. Sizes range from 1 inch to 12 inches.
For anyone who uses the Metric system, let me know and I will make a Centimeters version for you.
Today’s freebie is about compound words. A new topic to try. My 2nd graders loved playing puzzles games with compound words and since my “Who Am I” Community Helpers game is a big hit, I thought I’d try it with compound words.
In this game, students are given 3 clues to an object that is a compound word. Some words are easy while others are a little tricky. This will be a great game fore review or circle time.
If you’d like me to make a full game for this, let me know.
That’s all for today. Be sure to stop by my Facebook page for some flash freebies starting at/around 5 pm EST. Click “Get Notifications” so you’ll know when they start!
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 celebration. So big it would take an entire week to celebrate! Each day will includes spectacular new games, $1 Deals & freebie steals, and much, much more! You can find out more with in my 1,000 Follower Spectacular Invitation.
Let’s begin with the Gift Card giveaway of the Day! Today, you can win a $25 gift card to Target. I love shopping at Target, especially at the beginning of the school year. I hate love the dollar section. Makes me spend most of my money before I even get into to the store.
Today’s $1 Deal is for 1st grade teachers. I don’t remember using popsicle sticks or straws when I was in school, but when I did my observations in college, I saw them A LOT. Alas, I decided to make a game with them.
In this game, students must determine the number of tens and ones with the groups of popsicle sticks. This game is perfect as a whole class activity or small group intervention.
There are individual popsicle sticks as well as bundled sticks. There are 20 questions in all and a cute popsicle face on every question. =)
Today’s freebie is about Pronouns. I have a few noun games, but now it’s time to give some love to the other parts of speech.
In this game, each question has a sentence with a noun the needs to be replaced with a pronoun (pretty self-exclamatory). There are 3 pronouns to choose from so students don’t pick easier ones.
This is just a small sample. If you’d like me to make a full game for this or even a bundle of games), let me know. I”m think maybe a huge parts of speech bundle. Who knows. =P
That’s all for today. Be sure to stop by my Facebook page for some flash freebies starting at/around 5 pm EST. Click “Get Notifications” so you’ll know when they start!
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 celebration. So big it would take an entire week to celebrate! Each day will includes spectacular new games, $1 Deals & freebie steals, and much, much more! You can find out more with in my 1,000 Follower Spectacular Invitation. What do you say? Let’s get started!
Let’s begin with the Gift Card giveaway of the Day! Today, you can win a $25 shopping spree to my TPT store. Because my store is on sale at the moment, you can score some pretty awesome games for this upcoming school year. You can even get my yearly license!
Today’s $1 Deal is for Kindergarten teachers. A new type of counting game. Well, almost new gameas I don’t use make Test Prep games very often.
In this game, students must represent a given number with bubbles. Test Prep games are multiple choice (A through D). This game is perfect as an individual review or practice before an assessment.
There’s no scoreboard so it works great as a center or use it in the mornings for a daily review. Check marks and X’s appear on right and wrong answers respectively.
Your first freebie this week is about ending sounds. Next week, I’ll post my final game for my Beginning sounds set. but for today, take a look at this game. With a few suggestions from my followers, I created this Ending Sounds Mini game.
Similar to my beginning sounds game, students must identify the ending sound for each picture. There are 10 questions in all.
This is just a small sample. If you’d like me to make a full game for this (or even a bundle of games), let me know!
That’s all for today. Be sure to stop by my Facebook page for some flash freebies starting at/around 5 pm EST. Click “Get Notifications” so you’ll know when they start!
I’m so excited! I’ve been nominated for the Liebster Award!. Thank you so much M&M Bilingual for the nomination! I’d never thought I’d be one to receive this award but will gladly accept it! =)
This is such a wonderful button and I’m happy to add it to my blog. I’ve seen it on a few other blogs and had no clue how they received it. A week or 2 ago, M&M Bilingual nominated me and learned a great deal about it. The Liebster Award is given to new bloggers. It’s a great way to get support and encourage others as they blog!
1. Why and how long ago did you start blogging?
I started blogging way back in 2013. I was pretty new to it at the time. I wanted to share my thoughts about education as well as a little bit about my store and myself. I heard it was a great for me to connect with other educators. This definitely proves it!
2. What one word sums up the heart of your blog and why?
Passion! I love what I do! Even though at the moment I don’t have a classroom, I love education and helping others. Before blogging and my store, I just wanted to help students, but through my blogging journey, I came to love helping students, teachers ,and educators alike.
3. Is there something you learned late in your blogging journey that you wished you knew before?
How to schedule posts. I would always just write a blog post and post it that same day. About a year ago I learned how to schedule posts and now I could schedule them ahead of time! Makes blogging a bit easier.
4. What is your favorite pastime other than blogging?
Besides making ppt games, playing video games (Hint hint – that’s where the name came from!). I come from a family of gamers. We all love playing games. From board games to card games, computer games to video games, my family can’t get enough of them. My recent obsession has been Minecraft. I find myself playing it quite often, mostly for the building aspect. Who doesn’t love to build stuff!?
5. How many hours per week do you dedicate to your blog/TPT?
If it weren’t for sleeping, eating, and my niece and nephews, practically every hour. Since TPT is my full-time job, I try my hardest to put in 40 hours each week. Being self-employed has it perks. =)
6. What category of blog posts do you enjoy the most?
I love blog hops about classroom ideas. It’s great to go from one teacher/blogger to the next and get wonderful ideas that I can use in the classroom.
7. Where does your blog inspiration come from?
My inspiration comes my own experiences in the classroom as well as my day-to-day life. My youngest nephew is starting preschool this coming year and my oldest nephew will be in kindergarten this fall. They are also my inspiration!
8. Which post that you’ve written are you most proud of?
My New Year’s Resolution post. I had 3 goals this year —> Blog more, get healthy, and finish projects. I’m happy to say I am definitely blogging more. I am trying hard to get healthy. I’m exercising more and eating better. I am finishing up projects that I started so I very proud that I am sticking to those goals.
9. Is there a post that you are planning to do but have been postponing it for a while?
I have 2 that I plan on doing. One I know will be done before I go to the TPT Conference. The other is a post about using PPT Games in a new way (besides the traditional way). Pictures are the only thing keeping me for doing it.
10. What is your favorite aspect of blogging?
The writing! I love to write so it’s pretty natural for me to write a blog post. I’ve even written and published a book, not to mention notebooks full of fantasy and realistic stories I’ve written since high school.
11. Which idea from a blog would you like to try yourself?
Simply a blog hop! I’ve join several blog hops over the years and I want to try to do a blog hop of my own. The idea I have is very original and I think many will want to try it out. I love Jessica McClain’s You Ought to know Blog hop. It’s one of my favorites!
Here are some blogs that I follow and would love to nominate!
Happy Teacher Appreciation week! Every day this week, I will have a new mini game that will be a freebie for the entire week. You can pick it up in my TPT store. In addition, I will giving away a game of your choice from my TPT Store.
Reading comprehension! Something I have yet to tackle, but I think it’s about time to start! What better place to start than with fairy tales? Let’s start with Little Red Riding Hood.
In this mini game, students will answer questions about the story “Little Red Riding Hood”. There are 10 questions in all.
Some questions have one answer while other questions have multiple answers. Each questions and its answers are animated.
I included story element questions as well (setting, characters, author’s message, etc). Because there are so many different version of “Little Red Riding Hood”, this game is editable so you can adjust your answers to fit the version you’re reading to your students. I’ve read one version that has a huntsman instead of woodsman. I read another version where after the wolf ate little Red Riding Hood, the woodsman used scissors to cut her and her grandmother out of the wolf’s stomach.
The last question I left without an answer because there are so many answers a student could give. If you like to add an answer, simply copy an answer and the answer button from a previous slide and paste it to the bottom of the slide. Don’t forget to change the answer.
This game will be great for guided reading groups. Don’t forget to leave some feedback. I plan to make this game part of a Reading Comprehension: Fairy Tale Bundle on sale now.
Don’t forget to enter to win a free game of your choice from my TPT Store on Facebook. Enjoy your weekend and Happy Mother’s Day. You deserve it!
