Inspired by Bloggers

I am amazed by the creativity of so many bloggers!  I want to spotlight an activity that I adore!!  Rebecca Rojas of Create*Teach*Share has posted many wonderful activities.  One of her most recent post featured her Boggle Board.  What a fun and engaging activity.

My school allows students to enter the hallways at 8:40.  Students are to remain seated and read a book until classes open their doors at 8:55.  Breakfast begins at 8:30 and we often see our students in the hallways EARLY.  Reading a book for nearly 30 minutes can be challenging during arrival.  

I decided to create my own Boggle Board in the hallway so that students are engaged prior to entering the classroom.  I've decided to choose three weekly words to embed into the board.  I will pull the words from our weekly selections.  They may be spelling, high frequency, or vocabulary.  We shall see who has their thinking caps on early. 

I used Rebecca's boggle letters which is a free download from her post!  I decided to create my board a bit larger and will need to twist her arm to modify her recording sheet.  :)

Each week, I will feature a TOP BOGGLER.  The top boggler will be selected by finding the most words.  A requirement will be that the student also find the three weekly words!  At the end of the school year, I will award the OVERALL TOP BOGGLER a store purchased Boggle game.

For the first week of school, I selected three particular words.
Hint: My bulletin board read: Welcome Treasured 2nd Graders!

WARNING: NON TEACHER RELATED PORTION OF MY POST!

Emily at Playground Duty posted Tail Wagging Tuesday.  I couldn't resist adding a video that I captured yesterday on my phone.  My precious Baya will do ANYTHING for a treat.  I have my trainer voice activitated while working with her!  My husband and I get a kick out of this sweet girl. 

PS: Meakah, the white Pekingese, does know how to do all the tricks.  She knew that I wasn't talking to her and was determine to sneak the treat from my hands while I was filming.  Too funny!