I am so blessed to have such giving parents this year. They gave me a $50 Target gift card for my birthday in November! I wanted to spend it all on the kids, but since times are tough I bought some gifts for my daughter, but I did manage to grab four of these tic tac toe games. There were adorable pink and purple ones, but you know, the boys wouldn't want to play with those.
So this is what I did with them. I've trained taught my students to look up at our choice board to see what they can work play with after they are done with each of their center rotations (hopefully next year I can convince my partner to switch centers because many times they are just not productive).
Anywho . . . I decided that students could play in pairs but they couldn't place their gamepiece unless they could read the words in the spot they wanted.
I cut up small labels the size of the gameboard circles and wrote different two-syllable, easily decodable words on them. One board has words with 'M' . .
Another words with 'P' . .
Another words with 'S' . . .
And the final with words with 'T'.
These are the first four syllables that kids learned this year. I will change out the words as the year goes on. Hope it goes over well.
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