Those of you who are familiar with Bump games will know that kids LOVE to Bump! You will also know that Bump games are easy to teach and can be incorporated into your classroom in a variety of ways; for example, as a math center activity, an activity for fast finishers or a fun alternative to traditional homework. Bump games get students thinking and applying their math skills without even knowing it. They will be having so much fun trying to ‘bump’ each other that they won’t even notice they are practicing math facts! Check out these FREE … [Read more...]
Happy New Year Math Fun
UPDATE: These have been updated for 2021! Happy New Year! 2021 is here and we have some fun math activities to help you celebrate the New Year in your classroom. New Year 2021: Math Number of the Day A great way to celebrate the New Year in your classroom is to use the number 2021 as the number of the day. This is a great math activity for the first day back at school as it will get their brains thinking again after the break. A basic and an advanced version of the activity is included and you can use the one that is best suited to your … [Read more...]
Halloween Literacy Activities
Let's have some fun with Halloween words. These Halloween literacy activities will have your little monsters engaged while they play around with word skills. Here is a really simple activity that will challenge their spelling skills and word skills. Just list some Halloween words with the first and last letter missing. Then ask students to work out the words. Shorter words are the hardest ones to work out. Halloween Literacy Puzzles FREEBIE If you want more Halloween literacy activities, I also have a great freebie with 2 Halloween … [Read more...]
Halloween Math Games
Halloween gives us the opportunity to add a huge dose of fun to math lessons. There are lots of simple Halloween math games and activities that you can create with a Halloween theme and I also have loads of printable Halloween math games and activities. BOO The games above are really simple games that you can create using popsicle sticks and cups. These games help students review their addition facts or multiplication facts or other facts if you prefer. You might already be familiar with the game Kaboom. Well Boo is just a … [Read more...]
No Prep Place Value Games
My NO PREP Place Value Games are sure to be a big hit with the kiddos. These games are NO PREP games that you just print and hand out. There are 2 sets of games - one for 2 digit numbers and one for 3 digit numbers. Students just need pencils and sometimes dice to play. The games are available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store at - No Prep Place Value Games for 2 Digit Numbers No Prep Place Value Games for 3 Digit Numbers The games can be played in different ways. They are designed to be played with pencils or colored markers … [Read more...]
Halloween Writing Prompts FREEBIE
Children love spooky stories and these spooky story starters are sure to get them keen to create their own spooky stories to share. The 7 Spooky Story Starters can be printed as is or you can print them, cut around the edge then display as a chart. Here are a few of the spooky story starters which look really great displayed on black card or paper. You can download all 7 Spooky Story Starters from my Teachers Pay Teachers store now at - Halloween Writing Prompts Spooky Story Starters. Looking for more ideas for Halloween … [Read more...]
