I've just completed a new addition practice game called, A very hungry mouse.  This game is played with a set of dice so students get to practice their addition facts with sums up to 12.    For those of you who are teaching in states that use the common core standards.  I've started to include which standards are met in each of these games.  This game aligns with the CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.6 standard of Adding and subtracting within 20.         

Here is a free addition board game that I hope you enjoy.  Your kids get to follow the Christmas lights around the wreath to reach the star in the middle.  This game will help students practice addition for problems with sums on 10-14.

It comes with a set of flash cards as well.  

I'm planning on making some other versions of the game as well to practice other addition facts so stay tuned.

The pre-primer ghosts vs. vampires is now up for sale.  For those of you who liked the game I now have a primer, first grade and second version of the game.  All of these versions will be available for free until Wednesday.  

For more sight word games you can visit the sites shop or teaching sight words.

Dolch second grade sight word worksheets are here.  These worksheets are a little more challenging then the ones for first grade and kindergarten.  Students can color and write the words but they can also practice spelling them by covering and spelling the word, picking the correct spelling, and hunting for the word in a string of letters.  

A new set of sight word worksheets is out!  This time it is the words from the Dolch Primer word list.  You can get the The preprimer list and words from Fry's words list on my teaching sight words page.

These worksheets will be available for free on this site until Monday.  After that they will be put up for sale on this site.  I do this to reward those who subscribe to my blog or follow me on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.

The free giveaway for these worksheets is over you can now purchase them for $2.75 by clicking on one of the buttons below.

You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop.

I've got a new product out.  Adding and Subtracting Like Fractions, that is fractions that have the same denominator.  This is a perfect workbook for your students who are just being introduced to working with fractions. 

This workbook is 46 pages long.  It comes with 30 practice sheets, that let students practice adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators.  There are a total of 270 different problems including 10 word problems complete with an answer key to each problem.

The workbook also includes a general review of fractions and a guide to adding and subtracting fractions. 

Like always for the first few days of its release it will be available to download for free.  After this Friday it will go on sale.  I do this to reward those who follow the blog via: RSS, Facebook or Pinterest. 

You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop. 

As requested,  here it is,  first grade sight word worksheets.  The words included in this package are 76-150 of Fry's Sight Word list.  There are many different opinions on which sight words to teach at which grade I simply choose these words since in my Kindergarten packet I had used the 1-75. 

If your school district uses the Dolch word list instead and you want some sight word worksheets made up of the Dolch word list simply request a product and I'll make you some. 

In these worksheets students will get to trace, write, color, search for and circle, and cut and paste the word that they are studying.  The file will only be available for free until tomorrow so come and get your quick.

The free give away of this file is over you can now purchase the item by clicking on the Buy Now button below.

If you would like to get the Kindergarten worksheets (Fry's 1-75)  you can visit my sight words page and you can also see many more ideas for teaching sight words.

Here is a new limited time freebie, Sight Word Zoo.  This is a card game that allows your classroom to practice their sight words.   To play the game kids take turns drawing cards.  If they draw a sight word they must say the word.  If they draw an animal card everyone starts to act like that animal until the teacher says, "Zoo keeper."  When this is said everyone must freeze until the teacher says back to your cages, when everyone come quietly back to the carpet. 

This is a massive download with 10 decks, plus a blank one, that cover the first 300 words on Fry's Sight Word List.  This is a perfect game to make sight word flash cards fun!

For other great ideas on teaching and learning sight words visit my sight words page which not only has my ideas but features other great ideas from around the teaching blog world. 

This game will be available for free until next Monday so congratulations to everyone who got here early.

The limited time freebie is over.  You can now purchase this game for $1.50 on the new websites shop. 

Here is an idea to help make practicing sight words more enjoyable for your students.  Have them write them in a rainbow.  Each letter in the sight word is written with a different color so that the colors make up the color of the rainbow.  For more ideas on teaching sight words visit my sight words page.  You can download the rainbow below.

My classroom job labels have been so popular that I've decided to make another set.  This time the labels are owl themed.  And guess what,  until Tomorrow the whole set will be available to download for free.

If you would like to check out my other set of classroom job labels you can see them here.


The free giveaway of these is over.  You can now purchase the set for $2.50. You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop.