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Fluency and Fitness®+ provides educational brain breaks, games, and digital task cards for PreK-3rd grade classrooms. The activities on this site help students review essential literacy and math topics, while having fun. Fluency and Fitness®+ is perfect for literacy and math blocks, brain breaks, literacy/math centers, inside recess, morning meetings, or just those few spare minutes in the day. The site includes Fluency & Fitness®, Fluency Find It®, digital task cards, AND Physical Phonics for PreKindergarten – 3rd grade...Yes, you get access to ALL 4 for 1 low price!!! Get easy, online access to teaching resources all in 1 spot! With resources valued at over $3,500, you’ll save $ by becoming a member, AND get exclusive content and features not found anywhere else.
Fluency & Fitness®: Fluency & Fitness® helps students get in some movement, while still learning. It’s the perfect way to release some extra energy, without losing instructional time. Each video will help students review 1 skill and include a variety of exercises for students to do every so often. There are 3 timed versions for each video depending on the pace and fluency level of your students. Over 2,175 games to choose from! You can now create your own Fluency & Fitness® game by adding in simple text!
To Play: Students will say the answer to what they see on the screen (solve the math problem, read the CVC word, name the letter, say the missing number, etc). Then when they hear the music and see an exercise kid, they’ll do that exercise until another skill comes back on the screen. By only having music on the exercises, it helps kids know when to transition from fun, back to learning.
Fluency Find It®: Fluency Find It® has now been added as a BONUS to the Fluency & Fitness® membership. Fluency Find It® was created to help students review skills, while working together as a team. The videos can be played individually as well now too. There are also 3 timed versions for these videos depending on the pace and fluency level of your students. Over 1,425 games to choose from!
To Play: Students simply see what is on the screen, then hunt for that answer on their worksheet and color it quickly. I’ve updated the activity a bit, so now when they see the spinning crayon, they will switch colors. They will need red, orange, yellow, green, and blue crayons or markers to start this game. If playing as a group, each kid will start off with 1 color, so until the crayon stops, they won’t know who gets the next turn to color in the answers. Worksheets are included and downloadable.
Digital Task Cards:
The digital task cards are interactive games that can be played on any device. They work great for independent practice, literacy and math centers, small group, whole group, and more. The task cards are self checking, easy to assign to kids, shuffle after every play, provide student data for teachers, and can be shared easily with kids. Over 340 games to choose from!
To Play: Before the game starts, I read the directions and do an example question for them. Your students can play these games independently by simply clicking on the correct answer. They are self checking, so they cannot continue through the game until they get the answer correct. When they play a game, it will open in a new window, and close the window at the end, so you don’t have to worry about them clicking on anything they shouldn’t or getting lost.
Fluencyandfitness.com is the NEW and IMPROVED version of what over 40,000 teachers are already using in their classrooms. Click here to see an easy comparison of the old Fluency & Fitness on TPT vs the new website.
Fluency & Fitness:
- Fluency and Fitness® has been turned into videos with 2 different timers (3 sec. and 6 sec.) to allow for teachers to use this as their students either learn or master skills. No more PowerPoint needed or teachers having to be by the computer to control the activity! You don’t have to worry about downloading anything, simply view it all online.
- The videos now include music and animated kids on the exercise slides. We’ve more than doubled the exercises to include 25 different moves and also added answers to many videos.
Fluency Find It:
- These have also been turned into videos, therefore not requiring PowerPoint anymore.
- The “switch spots” slide has been changed to “switch colors”. This makes the videos be able to be played in groups, but now individually as well.
Digital Task Cards:
- These NEW digital task cards can be played online and do not require PowerPoint anymore.
- Now you can track student data, have the cards shuffled for each play, and assign kids games within the platform or with a URL link.
A HUGE bonus of fluencyandfitness.com is that teachers get access to ALL Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade content in 1 spot. You get my 4 most popular product lines for one low monthly price! If purchased, this would cost you over $3,500 and you still wouldn’t have all the extra features and activities that the site offers. Members also get exclusive content not found anywhere else. The older sets found in my store are not being updated or added to. This library of videos makes it easy to differentiate learning.
The videos and task cards on fluencyandfitness.com are geared toward PreK up to 3rd grade. You can always use the advanced (faster) version or beginner (slow) version of the videos depending on the level of your students.
Here are some images of our “search by category” menu. These are our main topics covered. Once you click a topic, you’ll see a lot of games inside. For example, “addition” will have adding +0, adding +1, addition to 5, adding doubles, 2 digit addition, etc.
Yes! You can assign the the task cards and videos right inside our platform or provide kids a URL to just 1 game at a time. You can then paste this url in Seesaw, Google Classroom, Canvas, etc. so the kids can click on the URL and the game will open in a new window. They will either enter their username/password (if you want to collect data) or simply a code you provide, so the correct game pops up. See the video below for more info.
- A device that runs a modern browser. Chrome is the best.
- A broadband internet connection that does not block the Fluency & Fitness domain.
- If playing whole group, you’ll need a big screen for all students to see (projector, whiteboard, etc,) You can also play the videos on individual devices.
- If you want to play this on a TV at home, you can airplay it through Apple TV, Chrome Cast, Miracast (for Roku tv’s), or an HDMI cable. You can read more to learn how to mirror to your TV.
Research shows that students are considered fluent when students can recognize a skill (letter, word, math fact, etc) in 3 seconds or less, so we have used this as a guide to make 3 timed versions of our videos. We suggest using the beginning timed videos when you are teaching and reviewing new skills, and the advanced version when you think your students have mastered that skill. Having 3 versions gives you over 3,600+ videos to choose from with the games shuffling for each play! Since these are videos, you can always pause them if needed.
The digital task cards are not timed.
The videos range from about 2-6 minutes. Video times are displayed on each video before you play.
Yes! Short tunes play on the Fluency & Fitness exercise slides. We do not have background music on any skill slides. This helps students know when to have fun and exercise and when to transition back to learning. Due to copyright laws, we’re still unable to include songs you’d find on the radio.
You can have 50 students in your classroom. Each membership is for 1 user only as only 1 person can login under and account. This helps protect student privacy.
All major credit and debit cards. We also accept school purchase orders.
We accept purchase orders from schools for the 1 year membership. Purchase orders can be made out to Fluency & Fitness and e-mailed to us. You can use your own form, or use our order form. Here is our w9 form, so your school can set us up as a new vendor. We’ll invoice the school, and set up your account manually. You can pay online via a credit card or mail in a check. Purchase orders do need to be sent in each year in order to keep the membership active.
Yes, we give a discount if you buy for more than 1 user. Please contact us for more details. We’ll send you a brochure with information and pricing to pass along to your administration. We do accept purchase orders, which would need renewed each year in order to keep the membership active.
Many school e-mail addresses have strong filters and will send our e-mails to Spam/Junk or block them altogether. Fluency and Fitness® will send you emails with your login information, payment receipt, and any reminder notifications. You may also receive updates about new videos or features added to the site. Using a personal e-mail account will ensure you never miss a thing!
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MANAGING YOUR ACCOUNT
At the bottom of the account page, select the subscriptions tab. There, you will see your plan, your next billing date, and the expiration date of your membership. Select the payments tab to see any payments you’ve made so far.
Yes! Click the subscriptions tab below. Then you’ll be able to see the option for “change plan” over on the right side. The system will take any money you have left unused on your current plan and put it toward the new plan. You will need to logout/login so the system sees you have a brand new membership.
Your billing period will be reset to the day of your newly purchased membership. For example, if the membership is monthly, and was originally purchased on the 1st the month, but upgraded to yearly on the 15th of the month, the next billing date would be the 15th (the following year) instead of the 1st.
Click the subscriptions tab. On the right side of that box, click update.
Your membership and access to the Fluency and Fitness®+ will become inactive.
Our CC provider will automatically retry your payment a few more times. If you have not received an email that says your subscription is cancelled, then you can click the subscriptions tab, then edit your payment information. Once our CC provider retries your payment, it will use the new CC info, and then you’ll gain access to the site again. If your membership has been cancelled, you will need to sign up for a new plan.
Click subscriptions at the bottom of the account page. On the right side in pink, click cancel.
You will receive a confirmation email showing your membership is cancelled. If you don’t see “cancel” look under the subscription column. If it says “stopped”, then you have already cancelled your plan.
Canceling will still provide you access for the time paid, but stops your future bills; it does not provide a refund. If you have a question about a payment, PLEASE contact us first before disputing a payment with you credit card company. We’re here to help!