Words With Winder

A little play on Words With Friends. One day as I was feeding my addiction (searching on Pinterest) I saw another teacher had made a Words With Friends (or let's be honest Scrabble) board to play in the classroom. I loved the idea and was off running to the workroom. I took two poster boards, the yard stick , and a marker and was off and running. The squares are about 2 by 2 ............ok I can't remember I made it back in January and was just creating off the top of my head.......after creating the board 15 by 15 I laminated it. Now here is where I would have changed my board, all the special places I taped on AFTER laminating instead of before. Now the placement of the special squares ( double letter, double word, triple letter, triple word) I just sat with my Words app open and a Scrabble board next to me. To create the letters I took card stock and ruler and created 2 by 2 squares....or at least I think they were 2 by 2........ To know how many of each letter and value, I just Googled Scrabble squares. (I laminated these pieces as well. Then I bought velcro squares and got to sticking on the back of the letter pieces and the board. As you will notice in the board I ran out of velcro so we used tape until I made it back to the store (i.e. payday)...... The kids had a basic idea of how to play and actually took to it rather well and quickly, they did have problems scoring at times, but they always asked what to do.....The students played in groups of 3 whenever they had Independent time and we used a sign to signal who's turn it was. I will be implementing it again this year (along with Boogle) since I'm going for a board game theme this year. Hope this helps and would love suggestions or ideas for other "board game" type games.........Homeworkopoly is in the works