Interactive Review Games

Our students live in a world that revolves around technology.  We are constantly competing to keep a fraction of the attention they devote to their gaming systems. 

Once solution is to join them.  Play games like the ones we found at Teachers Pay Teachers.  These interactive PowerPoints are already done for you.  All you have to do is plug in your questions and answers.  It's easy and keeps the students engaged.  My students enjoy this way more than paper pencil reviews. 

Millionaire, Jeopardy, Hollywood-Squares, and $100,0000 Pyramid are games based on television game shows.  Other game we found fun and entertaining in our classroom was Spinner Game Review.

Egg Match Math Facts

Easter is coming soon and you can find plastic eggs everywhere.  Pick up a couple dozen next time your out and use them in your classroom. They make a great 'matches and pairs' activity for students.

Vocabulary 'Head' Game

Vocabulary development is an important part of all content areas.  One engaging, student-centered way to get your students to practice is with the game Headbandz. We found Headbandz at our local Target store.  With index cards, we created content vocabulary cards.  Students had to walk around the room and get & give clues to their card and the cards on their classmates. They had a BLAST and they were working on the higher side of Bloom's, as they had to really own the meanings of the words on their heads to explain and correctly give and get clues.  For more fun and easy vocabulary games, check us out at TpT or here.

Why Fight It? Just let 'em watch.

Practice, practice, practice.  If your kiddos want to watch TV, let them.  Simply mute the TV and make them read the captions. Not only are they reading but their fluency will improve.  After all, they'd have to have fluency to keep up.

Yea! We are delighted to finally have time to jump in to this new venture. The lists successful of ideas and activities are long. Uploading them all and getting them out to all of you is going to be a challenge but one we are taking on with pride and enthusiastic excitement.

Where to start?  Reading? Math? Science? Writing? Social Studies?  Who knows? The answer lies in the need and the need changes from teacher to teacher, so we picked randomly and the winner is...Reading & Literacy.