It's Monday. We're back from an amazing week in Vegas. I worked in my classroom today. My body thinks we're still in Vegas...I'm a little tired...but super excited to be back into the blogging routine and linking up for Monday Made It!
So...you see...what had happened was...I was Dealz (It's like a Dollar Tree but prices go up to $10...) and saw this:
So my brain kicked into over drive! I finally drove myself to the store (I got a new Smorgie1 before we left for Vegas...before that I was stuck at home with no wheels for a month. People...I had to go a whole month with no Sonic. Do you know excited I was this morning when I drove myself to Sonic?!?! HAPPY DANCE HAPPY!!!!) and grabbed one. These fun tic tac toe games are $10. Not too shabby...
I was EXTRA thrilled when I opened it and saw that the Xs and Os weren't on there! YAY for blank spaces (Cue Taylor Swift music!).
Then I made these:
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How freakin cute?! My very sweet and talented friend Susanna at Whimsy Workshop made these! She's seriously amazing. You must check her out!
Then I got some Velcro dots and placed them on each side of the tic tac toe spinners!
Then I attached the cards to the Velcro dots!
BAM! All done! So...how in the world will we use this!?
Here's my plan:
For letters/sounds....the 'staches will gently (YES GENTLY I SAID...which we all know is reality...) toss the bean bag. Whichever spinny thing they hit and spin, they will say that letter/sound and color the letter on the recording sheet.
Recording sheets?! What recording sheets?
So If I hit the spinner with the Z and it spins around, I would read that letter. Make sense?! Clear as mud?!
How much fun is this!?!
#commoncoreisfun
And...it's reusable.
CVC words...Adding and Subtracting...
Real and Nonsense words
Word Families
The uses are many. And the Velcro allows for easy change out!!!