Segmenting words is an important skill that we work on throughout the year. Kids need a variety of hands on ways to work on this skill in order to make it more concrete. We use a variety of manipulatives to work on phoneme segmentation. Building words with unifix cubes as we say each sound, stretching the words with a slinky, sliding a pony bead for each sound and using our stretchy the word stretcher (as seen above). To make the word stretchers you need the template (below) ... continue reading...
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Sight Words Making them Stick!
Sticky Sight Words! A year-long sight word program. Sticky Sight Words pack includes 9 Dolch lists for your kids to practice and learn. Each one is a separate bubblegum color so as they master a list they can color in that gumball on their gumball recording sheet. This unit is packed! It includes: 9 lists to send home Flashcards for sight word rings Practice sheets for all of the words Assessment sheets and reward certificates to send home. Progress sheets for tracking ... continue reading...
Five For Friday: A Few of my Favorite Things
I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday so I thought I'd share five of my favorite things. This is my Erin Condren Planner. It keeps me organized and helps me remember where I'm supposed to be and what I'm supposed to be doing. I know we live in the technology age but I still like to have a paper planner rather than a phone or computer version. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my Frixion pens. They are a little expensive but they last a LONG time and the ... continue reading...
Book Talk Tuesday: The Day the Crayons Quit and a FREEBIE
The following content was provided by the publisher about The Day the Crayons Quit. "Crayons have feelings, too, in this funny back-to-school story illustrated by the creator of Stuck and This Moose Belongs to Me -- now a #1 New York Times bestseller " The Day the Crayons Quit is a book about Poor Duncan who just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough They quit Beige Crayon is tired of playing ... continue reading...
Literacy Centers Part Three Big Book Station and ABC center FREEBIES
Kids love Shared Reading time. There's just something about being actively involved in reading a story that you love. Each week I introduce a new big book. We spend a week reading the book, closely analyzing the text and getting to know the characters. Joy Cowley is one of our favorite authors. After we've spent a week on a big book I don't just put it away and forget about it. The big book joins all of the other big books in the big book center so that the Littles can ... continue reading...
Stretchy the Word Snake mat: Stretching Sounds in words
One of the kids favorite Guided Reading activities is using the magnetic wand and Stretchy the Word Snake mat to segment and blend the sounds in words. First, we push a chip in each box as we say the sound. Then, we wave the wand over the boxes as we say the word. There is a short video on my Facebook page that shows this in action. You can read more about elkonin boxes HERE You can order magnetic wands on Amazon by clicking on the picture below. To differentiate ... continue reading...
Organization Station!
I've had a lot of requests for my bin labels so here they are. You can click on the pictures to download them. The ones pictured above are for my smaller math storage bins and containers there are about three pages of them. I cut them out and laminate them on my Scotch Laminator (another one of my favorite things that I forgot to mention in my post). Wal-mart sells them for about $25 and then I buy the thick laminating sheets from Sams really cheap. Sams is about half the price of ... continue reading...
The Best Digital Student Center Activities
Digital Student Center Activities for kindergarten and first-grade classrooms. These paper saving math and literacy skills centers, with response worksheets, will be a classroom favorite. Teachers prep a TON when it comes to student centers in the classroom. We like activities that allow students to work independently(well as independently as our sweet babies are capable of). We LOVE having no prep activities so we can run to the bathroom just once during our day! I've got just the thing ... continue reading...
The Best Phonological Awareness Lessons for Your Primary Students
Improve phonemic and phonological awareness skills with lesson plans for kindergarten and first grade. These daily, 10-minute lessons will lead to reading and writing success! Lesson Plans for Teaching Phonological Awareness Skills Phonological awareness skills are the foundation for reading and writing success. Students with phonological awareness understand that language is made up of words, rhymes, syllables, and sounds. Comparatively, phonemic awareness focuses on identifying, ... continue reading...
Printable & Digital Guided Reading Books for Kindergarten & First Grade
Guided Reading Books available in printable and digital format for K/1. Leveled readers with lesson plans, running records, word work activities, and more! Guided Reading Books Small-group guided reading is our time to truly work closely with students in the hopes of creating fluent readers. Students work on high-frequency words, establish reading strategies, and write sentences, all while becoming confident readers. However, sometimes our resources are limited. The biggest problem we seem ... continue reading...
PreK Curriculum
Do you always feel rushed over teaching everything needed during preschool or transitional kindergarten? I’m sure you do! We often only have our students for a few hours each day. While we need to set time aside for snacks, bathroom breaks, and some play time, we also have so much material we want to teach students. Thankfully, there are amazing PreK curriculum offerings that combine all subjects with hands-on, engaging activities! Importance of Senses Our adorable 4 and 5-year-olds ... continue reading...