Bingo Shapes

Just like physical exercise, our mind needs some exercise too. Bingo is a very popular game that exercise your brain extensively. Furthermore Bingo is very useful game because involves the use of good rapid hand-to-eye coordination. Due to its easy-to-folow nature, Bingo is a great way to reinforce anything you want with your kiddos. It also helps to maintain focus and concentration. Bingo is a good way of bringing students together to have fun and socialize. Most importantly, have fun when you play with your students, knowing that you are making an active improvement in their mental and physical health as a result. I made a set of bingo cards for practicing the shapes. I use this popular game a lot in my classroom, because with Bingo my students learn in a fun-filled manner without even knowing that  they are learning something. In this post you will find a few different ways, how I use Bingo in my classroom. Firstly, I teach the four main shapes: square, circle, rectangle and t
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Ice Cream Math Cut and Paste Activity

Cut and paste worksheets help kindergarten and preschoolers develop their fine motor skills. This activity will help kids learn numbers by cutting and pasting them in the correct place. The kids will enjoy creating their own ice cream. Print out the worksheets and let your students color, cut and paste the scoops in the right place. These number ice cream worksheets help students connect numbers 1-10 with ten frames, tally marks, words, objects (pencils), fingers and dice. Ice Cream Math Cut and Paste Activity Be sure to follow my Tpt store to get notifications about sales and new freebies.
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Number Recognition Activities

Making kids love math is a challenge to most teachers and parents. I am trying all the time to make math fun for my children and finally I found something my kiddos LOVE. I saw the idea of ice cream math all over Pinterest but I never did figure out who came up with the original idea. I modified it to meet the needs of my kiddos and my students. I made Number Posters 1-10 -  This number posters set helps students connect numbers 1-10 with ten frames, tally marks, words, objects (pencils), fingers and dice. Number Recognition Matching Card Game - In this hands on activity children build ice cream cones for each number by adding the matching scoops. Ice Cream Math Cut and Paste Activity - this activity is super simple. The children color, cut and paste the ice cream scoop onto the correct cone!
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Ice Cream Math Number recognition

Number recognition ice cream game is a great practice for all beginner math learners. It is a fun hands on activity that keeps kids engaged.  My children like to eat and talk about ice creams, so they LOVED this matching game.  Simply, print  the cones and scoops on colored sheets of paper. It takes time to cut the cones and scoops apart, but it is certainly worthwhile. Learning to count is fun for your kiddos, with this counting game. It is a really easy way for kids to improve their counting skills. Children build ice cream cones for each number by adding the matching scoops. I made seven different types of  scoops, with seven different ways to show a number: 1. Ten frame  2 . Dice       3. Objects (pencils) 4. Tally marks   5. Numerically 6. Number words 7. Fingers You can also use this printable to create a group of colorful ice cream cones that visually represents each number.  If you haven'
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Word Families

Word families are groups of words that have a common pattern or groups of letters with the same sound. The 37 most common word families in English according to Wylie and Durell are: -ack, -ain, -ake, -ale, -all, -ame, -an, -ank, -ap, -ash, -at, -ate, -aw, -ay, -eat, - ell, -est, -ice, -ick, -ide, -ight, -ill, -in, -ine, -ing, -ink, -ip, -it, -ock, -oke, - op, -ore, -ot,  -uck, -ug, -ump, -unk.    About 500 easy to read, high frequency words comes from only 37 rimes. There are a few more word families besides these recorded by Wylie and Durell : -ab, -ad, -ag, -age, -ail, , -am, -ar, -ed, -eel, -eep, -eet, -eg, -em, -en, -ent, -et, -ib, -id, -ife, -ig, -ile, -oat, -ob, -od, -og, -oil, -oo, -ood, -oof, ook, -oom, -ool, -oon, -oop, -oot, -orn, -ought, -ould, -ouse,  -out, -ow, -own,  -ub, -ud, -um, -un, -up, -us, -ut
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Make Your Clip Cards - Step by Step

You can make clip cards ahead of time so they are ready to go… Click file, print, cut out... Fold in half... Place your document inside the laminating pouch. If the document is  smaller than the pouch and I haven't got any idea, or time to make something needed in my classroom I usually  laminate some sheets of colored paper. I use these laminated papers in many different ways, as bookmarks for example. But you can also write on them with a permanent marker and use them as labels for storage containers, folders etc. My favorite is DIY Write and Wipe Worksheets - You can write on them with dry erase markers and clean them with a paper towel when you are done. The only thing is that it's easy to smear the marker if you touch it, as it never seems to dry on the lamination. And voila! You have a great game.
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Clip Cards - Precious Teaching Resourse

 I am working as a primary English teacher. In the position that I was in this school year, without books, without resources for work, I was searching for some low cost ideas, that will work in my classroom. I made a tons of worksheets for my students. We made Fast Finishers Corner with these worksheets. It worked well, children loved it. I had worksheet after worksheet to check and I was so happy that my children are working with so much effort.  I've been using a couple of old boxes for worksheet storage. They fit perfectly on our shelves and were the perfect size for holding our papers. However, they were far from pretty. It looks like this, not so pretty now. Meanwhile I didn't stop searching for better ideas...and I was thrilled beyond words when I found clip cards and task cards. Clip cards save paper. Instead of copying piles of worksheets, you need only copy , cut, and laminate the clip cards once and you can use them for years. I made my cards self-
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