Hi there! Just a quick teacher tip that I thought I would share with you today...
Have you ever made multiples of a station or game with cut/laminated pieces? I usually make 3 sets of each station/game so that I can have 3 sets of partners working on the same thing. When I do that, there always seems to be those 1-2 cards that get left out at clean up time and then you don't know which set it belongs to. Ugh!
Am I preaching to the teacher choir? Can I get an amen at how frustrating that is?
I finally figured out, after a long time and many, many frustrations, to either print each set on different colored paper, OR, to simply use a Sharpie to label the back of each set with a number (i.e. set "1", "2", etc.).
Genius! Now, when a card gets left out at clean up time, it's easy to figure out which bag it belongs to. In fact, I've taught my 1st graders about this little trick and they know how to get any lost pieces back to their respectful bags all on their own.
Hope this little tip helps some of you in case you hadn't tried it.
Have an awesome day!
While shopping the Dollar Spot at Target, I spotted some fun plastic toys and snatched some up.
First, I found these plastic figures and thought they would make fun game pieces.
My Target had three different choices (shown above).
How fun will these be to spice up your games?
Fairy Tales...
Dinosaurs...
Mystical ponies...
I also found some cool little building blocks and, since I've been on the lookout for some new, inexpensive indoor recess toys/games, I snatched up two of each.
The ones in the packages are kind of like gears. They come in two different color varieties.
These ones also came in two different color choices but I didn't take a photo of the packages before dumping them in a storage container.
For a buck, I couldn't pass them up!
The back of the packages show some interesting things you can build with these. I didn't take the time to be creative with them for the sake of showing you in this blog post. You'll have to use your imagination!
Hope someone might find these useful! Gotta love that Dollar Spot!!
