Well, it's that time of year when the teachers are exhausted, the students are talkative (a little more than usual), and summer vacation is never close enough. It is all I can do to keep my students engaged and interested in learning, so I am pulling out some fun end-of-the-year stuff for my kiddos. I am trying to make my centers more fun as well, so I have a center that totally consists of games: board games, sight word games, computer games, Geosafari, etc. One of my favorite game centers for this year has been a sight word game I learned from Diane and Kelly over at Made For First Grade. (If you haven't checked out their blog and Teachers Pay Teachers store, you really need to. I am such a huge fan and have purchased most of their products this school year.) Basically, you take whatever spelling pattern you are working on and program a set of cards with words that contain that spelling pattern. You want to include a lot of words, at least 30. More is even better. Plus, you want to program a set of cards with a phrase that tells the student he/she loses all of their cards. You can program this card with whatever catchy phrase and clip-art you think is appropriate. I have purchased their Short Vowel and Long Vowel packs and used these games the whole year. Well, now we are working on r-controlled vowels and I needed a game to practice -er, -ir, and -ur words. So I have made a quick and easy game called Call the Nurse! It's nothing fancy, but it has been a hit with my kiddos, and I am offering it free in my TpT store. If you would like to download it, please click on the link below. I hope you all enjoy it!
Please check back over the next couple of weeks for more end-of-the-year fun stuff to do with your kiddos. We are working on making our Inch Men and Centimeter Cats, plus developing our own board games.
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