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Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Looking for Back to School activities?This Fly Swatter Game is a fun and fast paced way to practice letter ID, sounds, numbers, color words, and high frequency words! Over 450 flies to print and use. This is a game that will grow with students as they learn. You can use it all year long.
Looking for Back to School activities? Or just something to help you reinforce the basics?
 This Fly Swatter Game is a fun and fast paced way to practice letter ID, sounds, numbers, color words, and high frequency words! 

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You'll want to get some fun classroom fly swatters for this Fly Swatter game

And also choose which flies you want to use (letters, numbers, colors, sight words...) so that you can print them out, and even laminate them for added durability. Over 450 flies are available to print. 

You'll love to hear that this game can grow with students as they learn. That means you can use it all year long! And the flies are large in size so that all student can easily see them. 

To set this game up, tape or velcro dot the selected flies around the classroom or on the front board. Have your fly swatters nearby and ready. 

To play, call out a letter, sound, number, or sight word. Have students run up to swat the corresponding fly. It's a great way to informally assess where students are at and what they need to work a little more on. You can keep a notebook or post-its close by and jot down what you notice as students play. 
Students can play individually, helping each other review and learn. Or have them race against each other to see who swats the fly first. It's a fun and fast paced game. I guarantee your littles will cheer every time you pull it out to play.
To make sure these flies last a long time, I recommend to print them out on card stock and to laminate them. That way they won't get bent easily. I use my Scotch laminator and laminating pouches to make it quick and easy. 

Organize and store them in large Ziploc bags and put them in your file folder or drawer. 
Don't miss out on having the smartest, fastest fly-swatting students around!

Find it here: Fly Swatter Game

-Til next time
     
Looking for Back to School activities?This Fly Swatter Game is a fun and fast paced way to practice letter ID, sounds, numbers, color words, and high frequency words! Over 450 flies to print and use. This is a game that will grow with students as they learn. You can use it all year long.
My oldest daughter (6 years) was recently introduced to The Sound of Music.
Sometimes I catch her singing tunes or talking about various scenes in the movie.
Well, I decided to share a few of MY favorite things...
for the classroom that is.

And no...I will not be twirling around,
dancing on hills as I share!
(get image out of head...get image out of head...)
My Favorite Brain Breaks:

Koo Koo Kangaroo Songs

My class loves to dance and sing 
to the No Crust song
Dinosaur Stomp is another favorite of ours.
And there are so many more too!

My Favorite Books

Mo Willems books for sure!
Check out his website too if you haven't already.

We also love to watch this version of
The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?
on YouTube.

My Favorite Classroom Games

Candy Land-Sight Word Edition!
 (found this on Pinterest)
and 
Break the Ice Articulation Game
from Busy Bee Speech
Really, you could do sight words on the
Break the Ice cubes also...
or letters/numbers and make matching cards that students have to draw from a pile in order to see which cube of ice they have to knock out.

My Favorite Supplies

I love the Busy Mama Recipes that
Crystal Underwood, author and creator of
Growing a Jeweled Rose gives on her blog.

You can find recipes for peppermint play-doh, pumpkin scented paint, and more!

They smell so good that ya just want to EAT them! ;)
My Favorite Classroom Music

Why, Frozen soundtrack, of course!
What else would we listen to during free time with
all this snow?!

Isn't there some kind of song about
snow going away?
So over it!

~Til next time

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