Fun Hands-On Activity for Learning Letters and Sounds!

admin November 15, 2016 No Comments

The self-checking feature of these clip-it cards for beginning sounds makes it a perfect activity for your literacy centers. Assembling the activity is super simple. Simply print the cards and place a sticker behind the pictures which begin with the same sound as the key word picture and letter and then laminate your cards. I like to jazz-up my clothespins by gluing a star and that’s it. Your students then clip the clothespins on the same beginning sound. When done, they just turn the card over and if the clothespins are covering the sticker their answers are correct. This activity add a little fine motor practice as well. When you download this activity you will receive 24 beginning sound cards!

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Fun Hands-on Activity for Learning Sight Words!

admin November 8, 2016 No Comments

Learning and practicing sight words can be super fun when you integrate hands-on activities.  The Flipping Eggs activity is easy to assemble- simply print the eggs, laminate and then cut out each egg.  You’ll have an activity that will last for years!  Just for fun, the Flipping Eggs activity is also available with green colored eggs. The Flipping Eggs activity for the Dolch Sight Words contains the Dolch 220 sight words printed on the eggs. The Flipping Eggs Dolch Sight Words activity is available in my online Teachers Pay Teachers store. When you download the activity for the Fry Sight Words you’ll receive the first 225 words printed on the eggs. The Flipping Eggs Fry Sight Words activity is also

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Hands-On Activities for Teaching or/oar/ore!

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When teaching a phonics skill it’s often helpful to use a key word and picture to help the students remember the sound to the letter combinations. For the or/ore/oar phonics bundle, my fabulous artist created “corn” themed borders and game boards and they turned out absolutely adorable! This phonics bundle contains 11 hands-on activities for teaching and practicing the or/ore/oar spellings for the /or/ sound. The activities are great for either small group instruction or for activities within your independent literacy centers. Here’s a quick peek at several of the activities in this bundle. Of course, when teaching a skill, it’s always helpful to have a word list on hand.  Providing your students with a white board and then giving them

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Soccer Themed Sight Word Activities

admin November 2, 2016 No Comments

Soccer is my game! I have so many fond memories of standing on the sidelines and watching my own children play. Having three children involved in the sport, it seems like we were always at the soccer field. My kids are all now in college and I sure miss those days.  Maybe not so much the grass-stained laundry, but certainly being outside watching my kids and their friends play a sport that they enjoy. Out of all the sports-themed activities, the soccer bundle is my favorite. Since many of my little friends play the sport, it’s certainly popular in center activities. Just for a storage idea, I used these file folder containers purchased at Office Max. All the file folder

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Scarecrow Rhyme Activity

admin October 31, 2016 No Comments

These scarecrow activities have certainly been a hit for fall themed centers! They are simply perfect for centers as they have a built-in self-checking feature. Creating the activity is super simple. Just print the activity on card stock and then cut the scarecrows and pictures along the dotted line. Differentiating the activity is a snap as you choose how many and which rhyming scarecrows to use. Students name the picture on the scarecrow and then find the rhyming matches. Once the scarecrow is filled, have your students turn over the cards and if the pictures match the answer is correct. When you download this activity you will receive 13 rhyming scarecrows and 46 colorful rhyming pictures! The Scarecrow Rhyme activity

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File Folder Activities for Learning the Alphabet!

admin October 24, 2016 No Comments

I absolutely love activities that are super easy to set up and can be used over and over again.  Sure, it takes a little bit of cutting and laminating on the front end, but when they are all assembled you’ll have activities that will last for years!  Last year I created file folder activities for my second grade teacher friends to address higher level phonics concepts.  They were such a hit and the students absolutely loved them.  I just couldn’t wait to create a series for kindergarten and first grade.  The File Folder Phonics for learning the Alphabet is just one in a series that I have in the works.  When you download this file you’ll receive 26 file folder

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Fun Fall Themed Math Center Activity!

admin October 22, 2016 No Comments

The candy corn activities for rhyme, letters/sounds and vocabulary have been such a hit that I’ve had numerous requests to create the activity for math. Assembling the activity is super simple. Just print, laminate and cut the candy corns along the dotted line. You can easily differentiate this activity by choosing which and how many candy corn pieces to use. Some of my clever teacher friends added a self-checking feature. Before they placed the activity through the laminating machine, they put three matching stickers on each of the candy corn pieces for each number. After the students have created a candy corn with the numeral, 10-frame and word, they  they just turn the pieces over to see if the stickers match.

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11 Hands-On Activities for Teaching ir/er/ur!

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When teaching a phonics skill it’s often helpful to use a key word and picture to help the students remember the sound to the letter combinations. For the ir/er/ur phonics bundle, my fabulous artist created “bird” themed borders and game boards and they turned out absolutely adorable! This phonics bundle contains 11 hands-on activities for teaching and practicing the ir/er/ur r-controlled vowels. The activities are great for either small group instruction or for activities within your independent literacy centers. Here’s a quick peek at several of the activities in this bundle. Of course, when teaching a skill, it’s always helpful to have a word list on hand.  Providing your students with a white board and then giving them words to spell

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Spider Web Addition FREEBIE!

admin October 13, 2016 No Comments

I was out shopping last week and popped into JoAnn Fabrics. I found these super adorable spider buttons. LOVE THEM! Just for my first grade friends I thought I’d make a spider addition activity for practicing addition. First you’ll need to laminate the template or place it in a dry erase pocket. You’ll then need dice and a dry erase marker. If you could find the plastic spiders, that’d be great, but if not there are other Halloween themed manipulatives that would work just as well. Have the student roll the die and then write the number in the square and count that number of spiders placing them on the web. After rolling a second time, writing the number and

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Halloween Themed Game Boards!

admin October 10, 2016 No Comments

Need a super simple and easy-to-assemble activity for your Halloween themed centers? These Halloween game boards might just do the trick. When you download the Halloween Themed Sight Word Game Boards you will receive 9 game boards containing words from the Dolch 220 sight word list. There are four colorful game board designs. Simply print and laminate. The Halloween Themed Sight Word Game Boards are available through my online Teachers Pay Teachers store or through the Make, Take & Teach website. Game boards are also available for learning and practicing CVC words and words containing consonant blends and digraphs. The Halloween Themed Game Boards for CVC Words contains six game boards. Five game boards contain a single vowel sound and

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