Thumbs Up for Math ... Plus a Freebie!

Hi, Teaching Friends!

Are you resting up this weekend for the Big Day coming up next week? Or maybe your school year is already well underway and you're taking this welcome break to catch your breath! Either way, let's celebrate with a little sale!

Partner games are a terrific way to keep your students focused on the task at hand, and also build some unexpected friendships. There are times that setting up random partners or even letting students choose their own partners are perfectly fine options. But most of the time, you call the plays.

*  You can match partners of equal ability.

*  You can arrange some spread between abilities so the slightly higher player can motivate and encourage his slightly lower opponent.

*  You can even use academic games for social purposes, mixing introverts and extroverts, or putting a kind encourager with a child who's having some trouble fitting in.


Here are three sets of math partner games, all on sale through Monday night at both Teachers Pay Teachers and Teachers Notebook. Each of the four sets includes ten Common Core-aligned games, perfect for use in math centers. There are also directions and materials for using the games as an active whole class review. Use the games as you come to the topics in your curriculum, for spiraled review throughout the year, and as a fun way to review for standardized testing. They're also a great activity for the end of the school year or the beginning of the next year, to review and informally assess.

Regularly $8 for each set of ten Common Core Games, this weekend they're 25% off!

Download the preview for any of the sets to get a free game!

Sorry that the images are a bit blurry here, but I want you to see the variety each set includes.

                                                           At TpT                   At TN

Here's the first grade set.

                                                         At TpT                               At TN

Here's the second grade set.

                                                  At TpT                                    At TN

                                                      At TpT                              At TN



Would you like to try a free sample? (Oh my, that sounded an awful lot like I was offering you a chocolate!) With this sample set from my TpT game, you can get a better idea of how the games work and which skills are included at each grade level, K-2. Sorry, third grade teachers, revising this set to include you is on my to-do list.

Click to download this freebie at my TpT store!

Happy Teaching ... and have a wonderful weekend!

It's a Back-to-School Linky Party!

Hi, Teaching Friends!

Don't you love when your students come in all sparkly and shiny on the first day of school? They're sparkling on the inside and out! New sneakers, new haircuts, new backpacks ... they love to show us their back-to-school best, and we love to see it, too!


There are soooooo many amazing, creative, got-to-have-it resources out for the start of school this year, so I thought it would be fun to collect a bunch of them in one spot! Fun for buyers, and fun for resource creators, too ... this is the place to show off your back-to-school best!

                           Thanks to From the Pond for the adorable font and TeacherScrapbook for the cute kids graphic!



I'd love to see your best new year resources for kindergarten through second grade, both paid and free! Please indicate your priced items by placing a $ after the title. Thanks for sharing!


Happy Teaching!

An InLinkz Link-up

 

 



Place Value Riddles for Three Digit Numbers ~ Free Sample!

Hi, Teaching Friends!

I'd like to introduce you to my latest math resource, which has taken a totally ridiculous amount of time to complete, as in months and months! The reason for that is that it has changed focus and direction more times than I can count, and I'm not even going to try to explain that. Here's what I finally settled on!

While these are called place value riddles, and there's mention of hundreds, tens, and ones in each of the fifty riddles, they are really more about operations, mental math, and reasoning. These two cards will give you a good idea of the types of clues and the difficulty range in this set.

    

          

Creating these riddles was fun, and using the Fun Fish graphics from Mel at Graphics From the Pond made it even more so! Are they the cutest or what?

 Click here or on this picture to see more details at my TpT store!

Would you like to try a few samples from the set? Click here or on the picture below this cover and enjoy!



Thanks for stopping by! Happy Teaching!







Bonus Goodies for the Back to School Sale!

Hi, Teaching Friends!

I guess you don't really need me to tell you that the Back to School Sale at Teachers Pay Teachers is tomorrow and Tuesday. That news has been pretty thoroughly covered by blogs, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, ...

If you're a regular here at Primary Inspiration, you know that for the past few big sales I've put together a little newsletter for you. Well, here's the latest edition!

Here's a sneak peek at what's inside...

I hope you'll head over to my TPT store to download your copy, because what you can't see here is the special thank you treat I've included for followers ... a card game set for your classroom  I'll never tell!  ;)

Everything in my store including already discounted bundles will be on sale! 28% off on Monday and Tuesday.

No code at TPT for Wednesday, but my store will still be 20% off.
I have a special place in my heart for procrastinators.
There's a reason my mom used to call me Last Minute Linda.


Enjoy the sale, remember to use that special code BTS14 at checkout to get your extra discount.

Happy Teaching!

BBQ Blog Hop and Data Collection Goodies



Hi, Teaching Friends!

Welcome to the BBQ Blog Hop! We're sharing some goodies ... yummy recipes that kiddos will love, and classroom goodies for you! I hope and your kiddos you'll enjoy this summer recipe ... and the freebie, too! :)

 Recipe Disclaimer: There's no way to pretend that these are healthy. But they are definitely a barbeque tradition!


What's not to love about s'mores? Well, for one thing, a picnic-moved-indoors by rainy weather that keeps you from making your s'mores on the grill. That's what happened at our house a few weeks ago, and let me tell you, if you haven't played the dangerous game of roasting your marshmallows
on the kitchen stove, well... don't. First of all, they ignite like a torch in moments, which means black outside with a still cold and plain-old-marshmallow inside. Second, there's the likelihood that they'll plop 'n' drop their gooiness onto your burner ... not a pretty picture. Besides, once the kids see the marshmallows, they'll want to do their own toasting, which frankly I just can't handle watching kids do on a stove.

So that's when I started looking for alternatives. You know the talented font designers Kevin and Amanda ? Well, they also have some amazing recipes at their blog, like this one for Gooey S'mores Cookies.

Aren't they a wonder to behold? In addition to deliciousness, the draw for me here is that these cookies are make-aheads, so rain can't mess up your plans. I bet they'd also be a huge hit in your classroom, and especially cute and clever when you're using a camping theme.

Visit Kevin and Amanda's blog for the recipe. With their great photos and fun commentary, I can't even begin to do here for these cookies what K and A have done so perfectly!


Here's a way to combine your kiddos' interest in food with some math learning. These eight data collection activities about hamburger toppings, ice cream, summer drinks, places to eat, breakfast choices, and picnic foods are a lot of fun, and will be 20% off for the TPT sale from Monday through Wednesday!



Kids love data collection, don't they? Surveys and graphs are also great for building community, with your students finding out how different and how alike they actually are! Here's a graphing and writing set that has lots of surveys, too, and will also support your science teaching. Again (like everything else in my store!), 20% off Monday through Wednesday.





And, finally, the freebie! Here's an oldie but a goodie from my TPT store - the timing's perfect for using this one, with the new school year beginning. There are nine activities in the set, plus a cover to put them together as a class book when you're done.

Head on over to the next stop on the BBQ Blog Hop to see what Sebrina at Burke's Special Kids has cookin' on the BBQ today!









Happy Teaching!