Page 2 Printables!
This chart is great for motivating your students  to practice their sight words.  The first 150 sight words are covered on this page alone.  I place these in sheet protectors, so the kids can "x" off the candy when they are done reading each set of words.  If they read the words in a box they can pretend like they get a piece of that candy.  You DO NOT have to really give these candies out each time.  The kid's imagination will be exciting enough to keep them engaged.  Good luck!  
Do your students love fun shaped bracelet bands as much as mine do?  Let's tap in to that motivation by using this chart.  Each band has a common phonetic chunk/rhyme inside of it.  The kids can point to a band and say what sound they think it makes.  Put this chart in a sheet protector and the kids can "collect" them by marking them off with a dry erase marker.  
How boring is clapping your hands for someone?  Why not try some of these "Silly-brations" instead?  These are just a more creative way to encourage and affirm the students in your classroom.  Your students will LOVE receiving a "silly-bration" from you and their friends.  Print these bookmarks off and post them around the room to remind yourself to "silly-brate" from time to time!
Here is the wrap for making your KABOOM! games.  This will wrap perfectly around an empty baby wipe tube!  Write math facts, sight words, or phonetic chunks on popsicle sticks.  Draw a bomb and the word KABOOM on about every seventh stick.  Have kids pull out a stick and answer the question.  If they get it right they can keep the stick.  If they pull a bomb stick they have to return all of their points to the cup!  This game is great for a math center!
Here is the worksheet that goes with our "Ways to Make Ten" video. Finding all of the ways to make a number is such a hard skill for the kiddos to understand. The game is called Math-o-lantern!  It's a fun way to teach one of the toughest concepts in primary school!  Press the page to start printing now!
Here are the million dollar bills for you to print off.  I use these when the kids use "Million Dollar Words" in class.  These are special vocabulary words that we've chosen from read alouds throughout the year.  You could also use these as rewards for "Million Dollar Behavior" if you wanted to.
Check out our new "Tabletop Tip Sheet". We've included a handwriting alphabet, number line, hundreds chart, sight word list, coin value table and a left and right direction reminder. Students can keep this chart nearby to help them with their independent work.  Click the icon to print your students a copy now!
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Check out our newest printable game!  It's called bunny ball.  Watch our tip video for more information on how to organize this "Counting by 2's" activity.  You'll want to save this one for the springtime (2nd semester).  The theme is Easter and the skill is pretty tough!
Here's a great idea sent to me from Erin (My favorite Tipster from the North). She says... I have two bins in my 1st Grade classroom. One is labeled "pickles" and one is labeled "ketchups". If students have not finished their work, it goes in the ketchup bin. If students have finished their work it goes in the pickle bin. On Fridays I go through the "Ketchup" and "Pickle" bins and decide who is a ketchup and who is a pickle. "Ketchups" have to "Catch-up" and get their work done and pickles can "Pick something new".

I'm so happy to share all of the great ideas that came my way during our first Teacher Tipster Creative thinking contest. I know that you'll put some to these ideas to work in the classroom! This would also be a great resource to send home to the parents of your kiddos.  Thanks again to everyone who participated!

Here is the "Movie Money" printable!  Have your students choose a movie from the list, lay out the correct amount of money on the workspace and then mark that movie off with a dry erase marker.  My students have this chart in their chart folders.  They have so much fun pretending like they got to watch the movie that they paid for on the chart.  I've provided three versions here...easy....harder...and blank.
Here are the "Fundreds Charts" that we talked about.  Click the links to the left to download the PDFs now!