Doubles and Race Car Games Giveaway

Hi all! We have had so much fun this week introducing different careers to our first graders. This week is Career Week at our school and today the teachers participated in "If I wasn't a teacher I would be..." We all dressed up as someone from another field other than teaching and boy was it fun! When our students arrived at school they were given forms that contained teacher names. Throughout the day they needed to write down each teacher's "other career" next to their name. Our kids had so much fun and had an opportunity to learn about several careers. Can you guess what we dressed up as? One of us was a nurse and the other a hair stylist :)

Along with several career activities this week, our first graders have been practicing their doubles addition facts. We taught our first graders a doubles song that they REALLY enjoy singing. In fact, they like it so much that we have typed up the lyrics so they can sing it at home. The link to the video/song can be found HERE and HERE is a copy of the lyrics.

To celebrate our doubles practice we are having a giveaway for our newest additions to our TpT store. Our doubles activity is a 10 page package that contains doubles facts 1+1 through 12+12, a recording sheet, and 8 doubles word problems. Our race car math games package contains three games geared at addition, subtraction, fact families and place value. Both of these items are great for centers, group and buddy work, or to play as a whole class. Both sets include blank card masters for you to make your own cards if needed. There are 5 ways to enter our giveaway:

1. Follow our blog

2. Blog about First Grade Fanatics and attach the link

3. Follow our Teacher Pay Teachers store

4. Blog about the give away and attach the link

5. Grab our button and add us to your blog roll

We will draw a winner Sunday at 7:00 PST. Good luck! If you can't wait, you can purchase our doubles activity for ONLY $2 and our race car math games for ONLY $4 at our TpT store! Click HERE to purchase the doubles activity and HERE to purchase the race car math game pack.

Motivational Monday Vol. 5

Hello Friends! I have to admit, I'm not feeling all that motivating this evening. We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter weekend! It may take me days to catch up, after the business and bustle of 3 small children, so bear with me. :)

This is a quote that I came across, and it made me think. I know that today, I may have just been a good teacher, but hopefully, more often than not, I'm better than that.

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
-- William Arthur Ward

For putting up with me tonight, I thought I'd share a math game with you all! We are really working on reviewing all of the skills we've learned so far in first grade, with enormous hopes that maybe it will stick. :) This is a game, very similar to go fish, that works on addition. Hope you enjoy! Click on the picture for your own copy.


Make sure to check out our Race Car Math Game on TPT!

Race Car Math Games

We've finished our Race Car Math Games, and we want to share it with you! This is a pack of three games geared at addition, subtraction, fact families and place value all for just $4. These games are great for centers, group and buddy work, or to play as a whole class. And if you like our Weather Walk or Going Buggy, then you'll be glad to know that these cards work for them too! And like all of our products, blank sheets, masters, and student record sheets are included to make this as user friendly as possible. We can't wait to see how you make this work for you! Here's a sneak peek at what you'll get...

If you are interested, please head on over to our TPT store and take a look! If you have bought our products, and have been happy, please leave us some feedback! And as always, if you have any suggestions, ideas or needs, please leave us a comment, or email us. Happy Friday, and have a great Easter!

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Race to the Greatest- Math Printable

Happy almost Friday! Here is a great little math game that we've been playing with our kids. It's really great for kids who need some extra work on number sense, and really understanding a 100 chart. There is also good practice on writing a bit tougher equations. Click on the picture for your copy!

On another note... Christmas came early today! I am so excited I can hardly stand it!! Any guesses what's in the boxes?


Stay tuned...

Addition and Subtraction Recycle

Earth Day is coming up on Friday and we have already been incorporating several activities from our Earth Day Mini Unit this week. We added a worksheet to go along with our addition and subtraction recycle activity. This is an independent/group activity that is part of our Earth Day Mini Unit. You can download the worksheet HERE. If you would like to purchase the entire mini unit which contains other pieces that go along with this worksheet, you can find it at our TpT store by clicking HERE.

And the winner is....

Sorry we're a little bit late. Tonight we had t-ball, dinner, bath, story, bed... we got a bit behind. Thanks to all who entered our Creepy Crawlers give away. The winner is...

We will get your prize to you shortly Mrs. Saoud!

If you didn't win and would like to purchase our unit, visit our TPT store or click HERE!

Keep watching, we'll be sharing some more fun games very soon...

Marc Brown

So, this year I have been taking a class called "Authors, Authors, Authors." It's offered every year in Portland through a company called TINT. They have some great online classes as well if you are around the area. Each month we meet and listen to a children's author speak about writing, their story, and publishing their work. Tonight we got to meet one of my favorite authors. I remember loving the Arthur books when I was in school, and they have become favorites of my own two little boys. Marc Brown was quite entertaining, and it was fun to get to see some of his upcoming work, some of which isn't even finished yet. He hadn't written an Arthur book in about ten years, but for Arthur's 35th Anniversary he published Arthur Turns Green. It's a great book, and even better since tomorrow is Earth Day! What a fun night! I even felt a little like a groupie waiting in line to get some books signed. Someday maybe I will publish a children's book, and you can say you knew me when...



Don't forget to enter our Creepy Crawler give away! We will draw a winner tomorrow night. Have a great night!