Back to School Game: Fruit Basket Upset Have you ever played the game. Fruit Basket Upset? Most people I have come across in recent years have not played this game and, oh man! They are missing out! This game is … Continue reading
A Game for Teaching Left and Right SAME GREAT GAME, NEWLY DESIGNED!! My eldest is always asking, “Which way is right?” or “Which way is left?” There are some great “tricks” out there, but they don’t seem to be working. I … Continue reading
3 Punctuation Games for Children and After School Linky Teaching about periods and exclamation marks are big right now in our first grade class as we learn how to write a good sentence. While many of my students understand these … Continue reading
Teaching Vowels and Consonants to Children with the Vowel and Consonant Spin (or grab) Game Knowing the difference between a vowel and a consonant is an important part of learning to read and write. As a reminder vowels are a, e, … Continue reading
Product Giveway I asked BMTM’s Facebook friends if they were interested in a product giveaway and the answer was a resounding YES! So, I have been working hard to create a giveaway that is simple and gets what you want … Continue reading
Quick Answer Cards I love these cards. I always have a stack sitting by our gathering place ready to go when I need a quick sense of how students are doing with a new concept or when I have 5 … Continue reading
5 Great Games from Around the World I just finished up a week long camp where I taught children ages 3-12 games from around the world. We plowed through what seems like hundreds of games, but there were a handful … Continue reading
Robot Rhymes Why is rhyming important? Rhyming helps children learn about word families (let, met, pet, set) Rhyming teaches children about patterns and structures in both written and spoken words. Rhyming helps students understand the rhythm of language which helps … Continue reading
Part 2 from mama♥miss. How awesome are these?!?! Oh how I wish I had a printer…. Fruit Match Up Game from mama♥miss Why hello there Boy Mama Teacher Mama readers! I’m back today with another free printable to go with yesterday’s Fruit … Continue reading
A Game that Teaches Greater Than and Less Than As a teacher there are always things that I found to be really fun to teach (and some not-so-much). Teaching my students about greater than and less than was always something … Continue reading
A Die Within a Die Tired of dice activities yet? This one will get you going again! As I mentioned a while back, one of the coolest types of dice out there is the die within a die. These … Continue reading
We do A LOT of take-out and most of that take-out seems to be either Chinese and Thai food. As you may know, when you get take-out from these places, you almost always get wooden chopsticks. Over the last year, … Continue reading
