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Pufferfish Puzzles

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South Carolina, United States
About the store
Welcome to my store! I've taught middle school ELA and elementary school for nineteen years. I love to create activities that engage students in high-level rigorous thinking. I currently teach enrichment and Gifted and Talented classes.
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Preview of Summer Camping Digital Escape Room - End of Year - No Prep Breakout Game

Summer Camping Digital Escape Room - End of Year - No Prep Breakout Game

Engage your students on the last days of school with this fun activity. Capture the excitement of summer with this no-prep critical thinking camping-themed digital escape room. Great to use in Summer School or Camp too! Students will match analogies, decode a cipher, solve a logic puzzle, and complete a word ladder to find clues and discover who stole the s'mores! Your students will practice using logical reasoning. They will persevere to solve problems. This puzzle works great for Early Fi
Preview of Summer Fun Digital Escape Room - End of Year - No Prep  Breakout Game

Summer Fun Digital Escape Room - End of Year - No Prep Breakout Game

Engage your students on the last days of school with this fun activity. Capture the excitement of summer with this no-prep critical thinking lemonade-themed digital escape room. Great to use this game in Summer School or Camp too! Students will match analogies, decode a cipher, solve a logic puzzle, and complete a word ladder to find clues and discover which alien stole the lemonade from their lemonade stand! Your students will practice using logical reasoning. They will persevere to solve
Preview of Easter Spring Critical Thinking Logic Analogy  Escape Room Mystery Breakout

Easter Spring Critical Thinking Logic Analogy Escape Room Mystery Breakout

Capture the excitement of Spring Time and Easter Fun in your classroom with this challenging critical-thinking mystery escape room. Students will practice ELA skills such as discovering word relationships as they solve analogies! They will practice spelling as they complete a word ladder. They will use close-reading skills and critical thinking as they figure out a logic puzzle and solve a crime. Students will solve analogiescomplete a logic puzzle decipher a word ladder decode a cipher solv
Preview of Summer Camping Digital Escape Room - End of Year - No Prep 4th Grade Math

Summer Camping Digital Escape Room - End of Year - No Prep 4th Grade Math

Engage your students on the last days of school with this fun 4th-grade math activity. Capture the excitement of summer with this no-prep critical thinking camping-themed digital escape room. Great to use in Summer School or as test prep! Students will review many common core math standards as they persevere to solve 22 math problems included in the clues. (Download the PDF preview to see the specific questions included.) EASY TO USE! To play, just save a copy of the Google Slides and as
Preview of Summer Vacation Digital Escape Room - End of Year - No Prep Breakout

Summer Vacation Digital Escape Room - End of Year - No Prep Breakout

Engage your students on the last days of school with this fun activity. Capture the excitement of summer with this no-prep critical thinking travel-themed digital escape room. Great to use in Summer School or Camp too! Students will match analogies, decode a cipher, solve a logic puzzle, and complete a word ladder to find clues and discover who stole the s'mores! Your students will practice using logical reasoning. They will persevere to solve problems. This puzzle works great for Early Fin
Preview of Summer Camping Digital Escape Room - End of Year - No Prep 5th Grade Math

Summer Camping Digital Escape Room - End of Year - No Prep 5th Grade Math

Engage your students on the last days of school with this fun 5th-grade math activity. Capture the excitement of summer with this no-prep critical thinking camping-themed digital escape room. Great to use in Summer School or as test prep! Students will review many common core math standards as they persevere to solve 22 math problems included in the clues. (Download the PDF preview to see the specific questions included.) EASY TO USE! To play, just save a copy of the Google Slides and as
Preview of Vocabulary & Language Analogy Digital Escape Room - ELA Critical Thinking Game

Vocabulary & Language Analogy Digital Escape Room - ELA Critical Thinking Game

Are you looking for a fun game to build vocabulary & Language skills? Use this digital escape room to give students practice with analogies, expose them to new words and encourage critical thinking! Students will practice ELA skills such as discovering word relationships as they solve analogies! They will practice spelling as they complete a word ladder. They will use close-reading skills and critical thinking as they figure out a logic puzzle and solve a mystery. Students will solve analogie
Preview of Saint Patrick's Day Critical Thinking Mystery Escape Room Enrichment Game

Saint Patrick's Day Critical Thinking Mystery Escape Room Enrichment Game

Capture the excitement of Saint Patrick's Day in your classroom with this fun and challenging critical-thinking mystery escape room. Students will solve analogies, solve complex word problems, complete a logic puzzle, decipher a word ladder, and figure out guess and check and find a pattern math problems to find clues to solve the crime: Who stole Lucky the Leprechaun's Gold? Your students will practice using logical reasoning to persevere to solve problems. This puzzle works great for Early F
Preview of Telling Time, Reading Clocks, Elapsed Time Leveled Digital Review Games

Telling Time, Reading Clocks, Elapsed Time Leveled Digital Review Games

Review telling time to the nearest half-hour, five minutes, minute, and elapsed time with these leveled review games. You can differentiate instruction and make test-prep review meaningful for all students with these digital, no-prep Google Slides Games. 6 games are included:Activity 1: Tell Time to the Nearest Half-Hour and Hour Clickable Game (24 ?s) Activity 2: Time Vocabulary (Half past, quarter to, quarter past) Clickable Game (20 ?s) Activity 3: Tell Time to the Nearest 5 Minutes Clicka
Preview of Nonfiction Reading Escape Room Elizabethan Times Research Game

Nonfiction Reading Escape Room Elizabethan Times Research Game

Engage your students in reading nonfiction! Students will read about the fashions of Elizabethan Times as they read three nonfiction passages and answer comprehension questions to solve locks and escape. This escape room is perfect as a nonfiction companion to a unit on a Shakespeare play or as an introduction to reading nonfiction. Story: An evil wizard has sent you back in time. To come back to the present, solve three locks. 1st: students read the back story 2nd: students read 3 nonfiction
Preview of Twelve Days of Christmas ELA Critical Thinking Games

Twelve Days of Christmas ELA Critical Thinking Games

Keep your students learning and engaged through the Christmas/ Winter Holiday with these Twelve Days of Christmas critical thinking challenges! You can challenge your early finishers and use these as enrichment to enhance your students' thinking and problem-solving skills. Details:12 Google Slides contain Twelve Days of Christmas themed ELA, Critical-thinking challenges. There is one per slide. Assign them one at a time for the 12 days leading up to break, or assign all at once for students t
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About the store

Experience

Welcome to my store! I've taught middle school ELA and elementary school for nineteen years. I love to create activities that engage students in high-level rigorous thinking. I currently teach enrichment and Gifted and Talented classes.

Teaching style

I teaching by encouraging kids to read, write, and create! I believe that because creation is the highest level of rigor, students should have the opportunity to daily engage in many real-world, authentic experiences.

Awards & shining teacher moments

I am a National Board Certified Teacher, and am certified from elementary school through high school Language Arts.

My own education history

I earned a bachelors degree in English at Furman University and a masters in elementary education from Clemson.

Additional biographical information

In addition to teaching, I enjoy writing, reading, and running. I love spending time with my husband and two children.