Football Games

The big huge football game is coming up on February 3rd!  I'm really not into football, but I know many of the children are so I have created some fun games for them to play.  The last game is a FREEBIE!

The first two games use the same numbers and they are mental math addition.  Children mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number.  The first game features football players and footballs and the second game is cheerleaders and megaphones.  I made the games with different graphics to apply for boys and girls.  This may come in handy for those of you who are home schooling as well.  Click the pictures to head to the shop to check it out!

Next up is my FREEBIE Football Phonics Blast.  This game has a fun twist about it.  If you are a dedicated fan you know all about my Blast games!  Children read a CVC or CVCe word (magic e, silent e, sneaky e whatever you call it) and then turn over a football and receive that many points.  They can keep turning over footballs as much as they want.  Watch out if the player gets a 0 they lose all points including those from previous rounds!  I have tried it out with the student I am tutoring and he had a blast!  Your students are sure to beg you to let them play again and again.  Please leave kind feedback and rating if you decide to download.  You can also click on the Manic Monday at Classroom Freebies to discover more freebies!

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Second Grade Common Core

2nd Grade teachers I came across a really awesome Second Grade Common Core Workbook the other day that I wanted to share with all of you!  It has over 575 worksheets, activity centers, and posters that correlate with the 2nd grade Common Core Standards.  The posters are very colorful and the worksheets and centers are engaging!  This workbook covers all of the Language Arts and Math Common Core Standards!  I believe this will make planning much easier for you second grade teachers. 

Click the picture or the hyperlink at the top of the post for more information.  You can even see samples inside the book! 

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Spelling and Sight Word Cheers and Chants

Why not make sight word learning fun for your students?  I have created some wonderful cards that will help get your students moving!  Some of the cards are for sitting and others are for standing up.  Some can be used for either.  There are even a few cards that students will need a partner!  These can also be used to learn spelling words so the cards will work for all Elementary grade levels!

How about some fun examples:

- My second graders I previously taught absolutely loved Movie Star Kisses.  The students start with their hand at their mouth and blow kisses for each letter like a movie star winning an award!

- Volcano: Students start out at a whisper and get louder with each letter.  Then explode when you say the word at the end.

- Hand Jive: Pair your students up.  Children clap hands together for consonants and lap clap for vowels.  They put their hands in the air at the end as you say the word.

- Motorcycle: Hang on to the pretend handle bars and do wheelies for each letter.

- Back Tracer - Students stand up and form a circle.  Trace the letter of the back of the person in front of you.

You can find many more fun chants and cheers including Batter Up, Hula, Surfin' and Spellin', Frog Jumps, Yo-Yo, Chicken, and Ketchup.

Click on the pictures to check them out in my store.  Download the preview for some free cards!

I would love to hear any ideas that you have for using sight words and spelling words that allow your students to move!  Share below in the comments!

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Saint Patrick's Day Task Cards

First off, I want to thank all my loyal followers, fans, friends, family, and anyone else who stops by to view my teaching website.  I can't believe that I'm over 3,300 views already.  That is simply amazing as I just started the website on Dec. 28th.  I sure didn't expect it to do this well.

I have put out three freebies so far.  Hopefully, you have grabbed them all as I have had loads of views and downloads on each of them!

I have now made my first ever paid product that you can purchase on at my store on Teachers Pay Teachers by going here: Saint Patrick's Day Task Cards - $2.50

If you enjoyed my All About Rabbit Task Cards you will my St. Patrick's Day Task Cards.  These are great for pre and post assessment and also for your early finishers.  We all have students who finish their work early and many of us have gifted students.  Put them all on a ring and let your students quiz themselves!  These also might be fun if you are a parent with a child at home who gets bored, but loves to learn new things.

I hope you will take a look at it and plan ahead for Saint Patrick's Day!

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All About Rabbits Freebie - Updated

Way back when I first started my blog I tried to put out my first freebie.  It was the All About Rabbit task Cards.  I had a horrible time if you remember trying to get the table to align right so it was the same length on each page.  I now have it completely fixed so if you downloaded it before please head on over to TPT and download the new better version for FREE! 

Go here to see the original post on how you may use it in your classroom: A Hoppin' Freebie Blog Post

Click here to go to my Teachers Pay Teachers store to download it.  All About Rabbit Task Cards  I would appreciate it if you would also rate it positively and leave a nice comment.  It only takes a minute of your time!  

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Thanks,

Brian :-)

Class T-Shirt!

Many teachers use tie dye shirts for class field trips.  I on the other hand went in another direction a couple of years ago since I got really good interest from parents.  I decided to have my own class t-shirt! 

I gave each 2nd grade student a piece of paper and asked them to design what they would like to be on the t-shirt and any words they wanted on it.  They were told it had to be school appropriate.  While many drew action figures and princesses two students actually drew a Kangaroo hopping! I thought the Kangaroo was a brilliant idea as it fit well with my last name!

A company called Tropical Designs (Their link is on the right of my page) did the shirts for us for a super reasonable price!  The shirts were screen printed and not the iron on kind that fade so quickly.  For more information on Tropical Designs, click the link to the right of the website!  My Grandma, a wonderful art teacher for many years actually used the children's drawings and designed it before we sent it to Tropical Designs to be printed.  Check out a picture of the class shirt that we had them make for us.  

A Hoppin Freebie!

Denise over at Sunny Days in Second Grade inspired me with her Task Cards.  I find that they are incredibly awesome and have so many uses, especially to challenge those quicker workers and high achievers to learn something new on their own.  

Another idea for them you could also use them as an Anticipatory Set for the whole class and read them books, magazines, and internet articles about rabbits and then see what they know.

Thus my first freebie for you all is born. Click here to go to Google Docs to grab All About Rabbits.  Of course I had to make my first freebie having to do with something that hops. haha  

It is completely 100% far from perfect, I will tell you all that right now.  I used Word 97 to create it and for the life of me could not get the crazy table to be the same size.  I spent a couple of hours fiddling just with that!  I figure the children really could careless anyway.  We are harder on ourselves than they are.  Feel free to print them on card stock and cut them down to the same size if you want or covert it back to Word and fix it!

If anyone has any tips on keeping it all the same size feel free to send them my way!  I am learning as I go!

I look forward to any feedback on doing a better job next time and/or making this one even better!

Brian :-)