Although February is the shortest month, it is surely packed with more holiday and seasonal topics than any other month. It starts off with Groundhog Day.
Bring the celebration to your students with these FREEBIES:
SCRATTLE is fun activity that is packed with learning. Similar to SCRABBLETM, learners will make words from a set of letters. But what makes this more fun, and more importantly, elicits more learning, is that scores are not simply the result of addition. This DIFFERENTIATED center can combine addition, subtraction, and/or multiplication. You choose which recording sheet is most appropriate for your students.
But wait, ...
there's more ...
After making their words, children engage in a BATTLE with a friend (or 2). They will compare their words, determining who has the most high value words. Prepare to be amazed. After the 1st battle, your learners will be clamoring to have a do-over. Suddenly, all of those easy, high frequency words will be eschewed for vocabulary that yields higher scores. It makes my teacher heart swell when I see my kiddos start exercising their vocabularies and begin to strategize how to get ever higher scores.
This video may make this activity easier to understand:
For more Groundhog Day fun, try Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkies, and Hinkity Pinkities.
These task cards challenge your students to problem solve while applying vocabulary skills, such as synonyms, parts of speech, rhymes, definitions, and syllables. You can almost see the cogs turning in their brains as they determine the 2 word answers to these riddles.
Did I mention this product is FREE???
Here's a video to entice you...
My students literally beg to do Hink Pinks, et al. I'm willing to bet your's will, too.
And now, Hink Pinks, et al. are available digitally on TPT's Easel platform! Woo hoo!
Happy Groundhog Day and hurry up spring!
