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Virginia is for Lovers Bloggers!
A lovely group of Virginia bloggers would like to help usher in the new school year by extending a bit of southern hospitality. You can follow along the blog hop to visit 20+ Virginia teacher blogs for terrific teaching tips and fun freebies to help get your new school year off to a great start.
You will find the next stop on the hop at the end of this post. It doesn't matter which blog you start on, just keep clicking through and you will make through to everyone!
I grew up in the beautiful mountains in the western part of the state. We lived wayyy back in the sticks! I have very fond memories of playing in the barn, wandering through the woods with my cousins, sitting on the porch swing at my grandparents house, and being sent to the cellar for jars of beans and pickles that had been canned in the summer. I went to the same school where parents attended and it housed grades 1 through 12!
Now that I'm all grown up, I'm a city girl, living in Richmond at the heart of the state. We like to take in all the city has to offer from the gazillions of museums, to the James River, to the 150+ acre park a block behind our home. I teach in a very urban school where many of the kids don't even realize a huge river runs right through the middle of our city! So, I have my work cut out for me:)
My students LOVE spinner games. It doesn't matter what skill the game addresses, they love it!
I love spinner games because they are absolutely no muss, no fuss games. All I do is print, laminate, attach a spinner and GO!
The latest spinner games I've been working on are to help practice using addition and subtraction strategies. The freebie for today is Counting On and Counting Back for addition or subtraction. The kids spin a number, then spin a +1, 2, or 3 or a -1, 2, or 3.
They use the strategy to find the answer and mark it on a recording sheet.
This file contains two options for recording - either a traditional 'write the equation' or a 'Bump' style cover page to use with chips. You could even use both if you have super organized kids who could keep up with all of that:)
I hope you are able to use the game and if you have any questions about how to use it, please let me know:)
(Free only for the hop:)
You will find the next stop on the hop at the end of this post. It doesn't matter which blog you start on, just keep clicking through and you will make through to everyone!
I grew up in the beautiful mountains in the western part of the state. We lived wayyy back in the sticks! I have very fond memories of playing in the barn, wandering through the woods with my cousins, sitting on the porch swing at my grandparents house, and being sent to the cellar for jars of beans and pickles that had been canned in the summer. I went to the same school where parents attended and it housed grades 1 through 12!
Now that I'm all grown up, I'm a city girl, living in Richmond at the heart of the state. We like to take in all the city has to offer from the gazillions of museums, to the James River, to the 150+ acre park a block behind our home. I teach in a very urban school where many of the kids don't even realize a huge river runs right through the middle of our city! So, I have my work cut out for me:)
My students LOVE spinner games. It doesn't matter what skill the game addresses, they love it!
I love spinner games because they are absolutely no muss, no fuss games. All I do is print, laminate, attach a spinner and GO!
The latest spinner games I've been working on are to help practice using addition and subtraction strategies. The freebie for today is Counting On and Counting Back for addition or subtraction. The kids spin a number, then spin a +1, 2, or 3 or a -1, 2, or 3.
They use the strategy to find the answer and mark it on a recording sheet.
This file contains two options for recording - either a traditional 'write the equation' or a 'Bump' style cover page to use with chips. You could even use both if you have super organized kids who could keep up with all of that:)
I hope you are able to use the game and if you have any questions about how to use it, please let me know:)
(Free only for the hop:)
The next stop on the hop is...
Be sure to check out all the blogs on the hop listed below!
Sounds like you've lived in two different worlds in VA! Very, very cool!
ReplyDeleteI can actually even use this freebie in fourth grade. I also teach at a Title I school. Every year, I have a few students who reallyyyy struggle with number sense and this will be perfect for them. I love when math is fun :)
-Caitlyn
Fourth Grade Lemonade
I'm glad you can use it. I suppose they're never too old to develop stronger strategies!
DeleteThe game looks great! THANKS for organizing the hop!!
ReplyDeleteKaren :o)
Mrs. Stamp's Kindergarten
Thanks! I had a great time learning how to do this and I look forward our next hop:)
DeleteHi Nikki,
ReplyDeleteI was just in the Tidewater area two weeks ago visiting my parents in Chesapeake, VA. I went to Virginia State University after high school, which is not too far from Richmond. I am thinking about relocating back to VA next year. What a great linky! Thanks for the freebie, it will be very useful.
Crystal
Ms. Jones’ Junction
If you do come back to VA, drop me an e-mail!
DeleteThank you! That game will definitely be used and loved!
ReplyDelete-Lisa
Grade 4 Buzz
I LOVE the spinner games, Nikki! Also, it is so nice that they have the number line on the bottom :) Thank you so much for putting this AWESOME Blog Hop together!
ReplyDelete-Julie
The Techie Teacher
I thought it might be fun for the kids to use dry erase markers on the number line as they add and subtract.
DeleteWhat a great activity! Thanks for sharing and organizing!
ReplyDeleteCarla
Comprehension Connection
I had a great time organizing and I had tons of terrific help:)
DeleteI found your blog through the hop. I love the activity thank you so much for sharing it. Your blog is so adorable. I am your newest follower and can't wait to read more post. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteJamie
teachingtidibt.blogspot.com
Thanks so much! You are too kind:)
DeleteThank you Nikki! This was fun and a great way to meet all my new VA buddies. I love RVA! The Children's Museum is great. We stayed in the Linden Row Inn in front of the library. It was a fun place for our family to explore.
ReplyDeleteI know - I had no idea we all of these fabulous bloggers in our midst! Lots of fun:)
DeleteThank you for organizing this fantastic blog hop! I am so excited to be a part of this hop with all you wonderful bloggers! I love visiting Richmond. My favorite place there is Pearl's Cupcake Shop. Yum! Perhaps one day we can do a Virginia bloggers meet up out your way! That's not too far from the Hampton Roads area that I live in!
ReplyDeleteRachel
Mrs O Knows
I agree - a meet up in Richmond would be a nice central spot to get together! We should do that sometime:)
DeleteThank you! Especially for the spinner tips ~ I've been wondering how people make all those spinners.
ReplyDeleteMaria
First Grade Carousel
I figured it out by accident and the kids have yet to wreck one of them! And they love to choose a spinner from the box of fancy paperclips:)
DeleteNikki,
ReplyDeleteThis is great! Wonderful first stop on our blog hop!
Laken
Whole Brain Teaching in the Ladybug Club
This blog hop is great! I've really enjoyed it. You did a great job organizing.
ReplyDeleteAnd awesome spinner games! Thank you!
Plus, you need to teach me how to put my stuff as a google doc. I think that would be so much easier than my Dropbox idea. And yet I can't figure our Google docs. I am google doc challenged!
~Heather
The Meek Moose
The Meek Moose on TpT
Google docs! I'd be glad to help, but I must warn you that my method for figuring out new programs and such is to just start clicking stuff and then when I've royally screwed it up, I Google it.
DeleteBut, since it's a plan that typically works for me, I'm sticking with it:)
It sounds as though you and I grew up in the same place!! Shenandoah Valley? I came from Rockingham County. How about you?
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for organizing all of this! It is my first blog hop and it is going great! I love all of the ideas I am getting!
Jessica
Hanging Out in First!
Yes, I spent the first part of my life in Bath County, then we moved into the valley when I was in elementary school. Of course, I still spent lots of time in Bath County and now I miss it terribly.
DeleteThis will be a great game to add to my math centers! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteMary
Teaching Special Kids
So glad you can use it! I have other free spinner games in my tpt store if you like them:)
DeleteNikki, what a great idea! Anything you can turn into a game makes it more fun! Thanks for organizing the hop!
ReplyDeleteCourtney
Polka Dot Lesson Plans
I grew up and now teach in Franklin County (Between Roanoke and Martinsville), but my BFF from High School lives in Richmond, and I love it there too! I taught in Hampton Roads when my husband was stationed there my first two years- and an urban school is very different when you grew up in the sticks like we did!
ReplyDeleteI love reading a fellow Virginian's blog!
3rdgradethings.blogspot.com
Jess
I love meeting new VA bloggers! If you want to join in on the next hop, e-mail me and I'll add you to our e-mail list! I think we might try to do something this winter.
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Thanks so much for this freebie! I'm looking forward to using this with my students!
ReplyDeleteThanks again for organizing this blog hop! It's a blast meeting new bloggers and downloading great freebies! I definitely am up for another hop this winter and a blogger meet-up in a central location.
ReplyDeleteHokie Teach
Thank you Nikki! Wonderful resource and I especially like your detailed pictures about how to make the spinner work properly!
ReplyDeleteCheers!
Susanna
Whimsy Workshop
Thank you for the games. These look like a fun way to practice the counting on/back strategies.
ReplyDeletePam
I didn't realize you grew up in the Western part of the state. I moved to Richmond when I was 13 and really like the city feel of it. I am in a rural Title I school, and it is amazing what they don't know. Some have never seen a water tower and think the creek IS a river. I love taking field trips with them as they see the world for the first time.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun freebie!
Andrea
Reading Toward the Stars
This is great! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThank you SOO much for all of your hard work with this blog hop! You did an amazing job organizing everything. I already mentioned to a few people that we need a Richmond get-together (sometime in the fall?), and now that Rachel mentioned a cupcake shop I'd never heard of, it may have to be a stop!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the freebie!
Don't Let the Teacher Stay Up Late
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I would love to do a Richmond get together! Cupcakes should definitely be involved:)
DeleteThis Northerner is lovin' this Southern Hospitality!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this great freebie!
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