ValenTIME week

Congrats to Angie Henry who won a copy of The Day It Rained Nouns! I'll email it right out.

We have been working on time to the hour and half hour so today we played Time Traveler. In this game your partner picks the card and tells you what time to make on your real clock. Then the partner checks your work with the picture of the clock on the card. If you are correct you get to roll a die to see how many spaces to move. If you are incorrect, your partner explains what you did wrong. That way both partners are equally engaged the WHOLE TIME!

My students got a kick out of the fact that I rigged the spaces so if you landed on go ahead 2 you then landed on go ahead 1, etc.

Only $2 and can be differentiated with cards to the quarter hour as well.

Check out that mohawk! A couple weeks ago it was a SF for the Superbowl.

We also made the Love Monsters I saw on Teacher Bits and Bobs last year. I am low on black paper so we did it without. I introduced the project by explaining they were going to make a Love Monster and one of the girls immediately pointed to one of the cards from my Love Monster Read the Room set and said, "Like this?" A few others were worried about making the spikes, so I told them they could it make it however they wanted...

The writing about who they loved was so sweet. One boy wrote, "I love my brother because he is so cute." Another boy explained he loved his parents because they gave him food and water. Umm...I'm sure he didn't mean to sound like he was in prison. But this one cracked me up....

I love my friend Ashley because she is so fashionable! LOL!

Time game now with more cards!

Busy Bee suggested that I add quarter past and quarter to cards to the hour and half hour I had in my Time Traveler game. I didn't know this was a 1st grade standard in some places! I figured it would be better for the second grade teachers or to differentiate for those high kids anyhow so I added them today.

 I color-coded them so you can differentiate easily.

Thanks for the suggestion Busy Bee!

The new improved version is now available on TPT for only $2.

Time Traveler: A Time Game and Giveaway

I created a new math game called Time Traveler.

 It is a board game for 2 players that requires the players to manipulate the hands of a clock. After reflecting on my year, I realized I need to give my students more hands-on practice.

After much debate, I decided to put this game on TPT for $2.  The stress of neither of us working is keeping me up at night so I hope you won't think too badly of me for trying to making a little extra. I promise I will still share lots of things for free on this blog.

To ease my conscience I will giveaway a copy of this game to a lucky follower.
Possible ways to enter:
1. Become a follower if you are not already.
2. Leave me a comment that you started to Follow me on TPT
3. Blog about this giveaway and leave a comment with the link.
4. Add my blog to your sidebar if you haven't already and leave me the link.


I will pick a winner tomorrow night (Thursday, 6/9) at 9 PM Pacific Time so hurry!