Half Past Puzzle Bugs I had an urge to create something new this week. It has been a while since I posted something like this. We are learning about time in my first grade class and thought this would be … Continue reading
FREE Numbers Battleship Games I saw this amazing version of Battleship somewhere on Pinterest. I have tried and tried to find the original poster, but it seems that it is quite popular and many people have shared it. So this … Continue reading
Pot O’ Gold Number Bond Game Preparing the Game Print the templates and glue the two sides of the game board together as shown below. Copy the playing cards with the number bonds on one side and the shamrocks … Continue reading
Solid Shapes Board Game Materials templates card stock 11 by 17 inch paper playing pieces Preparation print game board on 11 by 17 inch paper Print cards on card stock To Play Players start at “start.” S/he chooses a playing … Continue reading
FREE Doubles Roll and Cover Game Doubles are an important set of facts for children to learn simply because they come up over and over and they are great for helping students solve related facts. For example, if a child … Continue reading
How to Make a Magnetic Ten Frame Paddle I really want magnetic ten frame answer paddles for my class, but they are pricey so I decided to make my own Of course there are some differences between the “real” ten … Continue reading
Flower Pot Number Bond Game I really feel like students can never get enough practice with number bonds, so I created this spring flower pot number bond game. Preparing the Game Print the templates and glue the two sides of the … Continue reading
Ten Frame Addition Game We use Math in Focus/Singapore Math in the school where I teach. Many of the games I create are specifically made to supplement the program. Recently, the program asked my students to do “ten frame addition.” … Continue reading
FREE Football Ten Frame Playing Cards I’m so excited to share these FREE Football Ten Frame Playing Cards with all BMTM’s readers. There are two sets of FREE Football Ten Frame Playing Cards. The first is simply playing cards with ten … Continue reading
Best FREE Printables of 2014 Who doesn’t love freebies? I certainly do so when the wonderful hosts of the After School Linky decided to once again do our BEST OF series, I jumped at the chance to share a whole bunch … Continue reading
Activities for Teaching Solid Shapes We just completed a chapter on plane and solid shapes in our math program. I created these activities to give our first graders extra practice with each of the concepts taught in the book. Solid … Continue reading
Plus 1 Minus 1 Card Game I created this card game to help my students practice the concept of +1/-1. After creating this game, I added in a +5/-5 game and a +10/-10 game as well. Played this with my … Continue reading