Bling Out Your Class Blog/Website with a Stylish Hit Counter

The other day one of my colleagues told me she found a blog hit counter in the form of Uno cards that she added to the sidebar of her blog. I was so excited that I started looking up different blog hit trackers and stumbled upon this AMAZING website that has hundreds of hit counters that are absolutely adorable: apples, pumpkins, notepads... You KNOW I had to find something "techie" so I grabbed the computer keys tracker! They do have cute floppy disks but who uses those anymore? There are even ANIMATED trackers:

I think the apple counter is super cute for you primary teachers out there! Apples are added as the numbers of visitors increase to the tens, hundreds and thousands place. I feel like a place value lesson could be sparked with your new class website/blog hit counter:)

                                                

In fact, I have a Digital Place Value Activity in Google Slides that can be found in my TpT store. Students could use these graphic organizer slides as a place value journal. Have them visit your class blog/website once a week and fill in one of the graphic organizer slides that require students to:

• type the standard form
• type the word form
• type the expanded form
• add 10 to the number
• subtract 10 from the number
• drag place value blocks to create the number

Here is an example of a finish slide:

I also included a black and white blank copy if you would rather print and make hard copies:

Click the image below if you are interested in this product:

Students will have a blast seeing how many visitors have come to your class blog/website annnnnnnnd they will be advancing their number sense in a meaningful way.

To get a fancy little counter on the side of your blog/website, follow these steps:

1. Visit http://www.free-counters.co.uk/ and click on the counter of your dreams 😄

2. Choose your settings and fill in the info:

3. Copy and paste the embed code that is produced and paste it in a HTML widget on your dashboard (worked on both my Blogger and Word Press blogs!)

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