The game is available free from Teachers Pay Teachers. I use this site frequently for adorable and educational games. I don’t personally have an account, but bestie M is always a doll to download and send them to me. It is free to set up an account and I don’t think you have to be a teacher to do so.
The game comes with instructions, but I slightly modified them to better suit John’s classroom set up. They will be playing it like a bingo game in the groups that they already sit in:
- In each group, student will run the spinner and call out the fraction.
- The rest of the students at the table will use a marker to cover a fraction model that represents the fraction on the spinner. If a shamrock is spun, they each get to choose one shamrock on their sheet to cover.
- The first student to cover a row (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) on the game board is the winner.
I just hope that everyone doesn’t end up with bingo at the same time… a problem I realized might occur AFTER I made all of the copies with my new instructions. Perhaps I should have left well enough alone and not messed with them :-)
The spinner is pretty ingenious. You place one end of a paperclip on the center of the spinner and hold the point of your pencil down in the middle of that and spin.
The supplies for the game are easy and inexpensive to pull together. You’ll need:
- Four-Leaf Fractions Free Game
- A pencil and large paperclip for each spinner
- Markers – we are using Lucky Charms
I hope it ends up as fun as I intend!
xoxo
So cute. I'm sure it will be a hit. Love your Lucky Charms. We didn't get that version down here.
Adorable as always. Now…..whatcha doing for April fools?!?!
Thank you! Probably this again because the littles LOVE it so much!!
http://dixiedelights.blogspot.com/2013/04/april-fools-silly-supper-sideshow-free.html
Or the Mickey version…
http://dixiedelights.blogspot.com/2014/04/april-fools-day-mickeys-mixed-up-meal.html
You are right – you don't have to be a teacher. I use TpT all the time! This is so cute. I'm sure it will be a hit! xo
If I were still teaching in the classroom, I'd definitely use this one. Great idea!