Mitten Match Math FREEBIE

admin December 9, 2013 No Comments

Looking for a fun winter-themed activity for your math centers?  The Make, Take & Teach Mitten Match activity for addition may just do the trick.  Simply print, laminate and cut out the mittens and your center activity is ready to go.  Put a few clothespins in the storage container and have your students clip the problem and the answer.  They absolutely love it! The Mitten Match Addition FREEBIE is available in the online TpT store. If you like this activity, you may also enjoy Mitten Match for Rhyme and Mitten Match for Beginning Sounds.  These activities are available through the Make, Take & Teach website or through my online Teachers Pay Teachers store.

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7 Syllable Types Classroom Posters

admin December 6, 2013 No Comments

It’s always so much fun listening and watching our  young readers figure out those “longer” words.  Many of our little ones are pretty solid decoding one-syllabe words and are now ready to learn strategies for decoding multisyllabic words.  So, really, what is a syllable?  Simply put, a syllable is a unit of pronunciation containing a single vowel sound.  “Syllabication” is the process of analyzing the pattern of vowels and consonants in a word to determine where a word is broken into its syllables. The ability to break a word into syllables helps students decode those longer words as well as helps the student remember spelling patterns.  Understanding the 7 syllable types helps students to become better readers and writers. There

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Santa’s Reindeer

admin December 5, 2013 No Comments

Kyle (fabulous artist) made this adorable reindeer clip art just so I can create a few Christmas-themed activities.   Many of our kindergarteners, first graders and second graders are working on various list of the Dolch 220 sight words, so I thought it’d be fun to make an activity just for sight word practice.  You can easily differentiate this activity by choosing which and how many sight word reindeer to use.  Playing the game is quite simple and that’s why it’s ideal for an independent center.  Students take turns choosing a reindeer and reading the word.  The first student to choose a reindeer with “coal” must put all their reindeer back in the pile and play resumes.  The student with

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Winter Themed Activities for Teaching R-Controlled Vowels

admin November 30, 2013 No Comments

Many of my first grade friends are now moving onto more advanced phonics concepts.  They can blend CVC words, know blend and digraphs, and are now ready to move onto working with r-controlled vowels.  How exciting! I just love first grade.  Most enter first grade knowing their letters and sounds and then 9 short months later, leave with chapter books in their hands.  It’s really quite amazing.  To address r-controlled vowels, I made a few little activities which can be used in your centers or for small group instruction.  The first activity is the sorting penguins activity.  Students read the word on the penguins and then place the penguin on the correct corresponding arctic scene.  There are 60 colorful penguins!

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Build A Snowman

admin November 27, 2013 No Comments

My fabulous artist created these adorable snowmen last year.  I quickly used them to create the Build A Snowman activities for beginning sounds and word families. They were such a hit with our kindergarteners and first graders!  If you live in the great white north, winter can literally last for months making these activities ideal for use from November (yes, there’s snow on the ground right now) through the end of March. The Build A Snowman Beginning Sounds activity is available through the Make, Take & Teach website or through my online Teachers Pay Teachers store. When you download the Build A Snowman for Word Families, you’ll receive 15 different word family snowmen each with 3 word family pictures.  This

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Word Building Mat- A Quick and Easy DIY Project

admin November 24, 2013 No Comments

As soon as students learn a few sound-symbol correspondences, it’s important that they begin putting those letters/sounds together to form words.  Nearly all reading programs begin phonics instruction by introducing a few common consonants with a vowel so that students can quickly begin reading and writing simple words (e.g. m, a, s, d, t…).  How exciting is that for our young readers!  By learning only a few letters and sounds, they can actually read!  For example, just by learning the sounds of m, a, s, d and t, students can read and write words such as:  mad, mat, Sam, and dad.  Word building activities with known letters and sounds is a crucial component of our phonics instruction.  During a word

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Bouncy Bands- Great Tool for Your Students Who Need to Move!

admin November 21, 2013 No Comments

I love it when we can find a super cheap and efficient way to meet the needs of our students.  For students with ADHD we often recommend tools such as sissel seats, therapy balls and fidgets for use in the classroom to allow students to move and, hopefully, maintain attention to instruction.   These items are often so expensive, and with our ever dwindling school budgets, well, need I say more?  A few weeks back, Scott Ertl contacted me and asked if I would try out his new Bouncy Bands.  Scott is an elementary school counselor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and works with students and teachers in developing plans for helping students succeed in the classroom.  When I first received

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Mitten Match Activities for Rhyme, Beginning Sounds and Vocabulary

admin November 15, 2013 No Comments

Here in Northern Michigan winter can last for months (and I mean months and months).  We often have snow from late November through mid-April.  Although I love winter, I’m more than ready for the warmer weather by the end of March.  Well, up in the north, putting on your boots, mittens, hats, coats, and snow pants is an everyday event.  It can take up to 10 minutes to get our little kindergarteners ready to go outside–and then another 10 minutes to get undressed!  Multiply that routine  by at three times a day–craziness!  Whether you live in a winter wonderland or in warmer parts of the world, the Mitten Match activity is sure to be a hit with your kiddos during

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Fun with Beginning Sounds

admin November 10, 2013 No Comments

I created the Beginning Sounds activity specifically for independent practice in literacy centers.  There are three different ways that you can use the templates.  The first way (I’ll admit, it’s my favorite) is to laminate the templates and place velcro dots on the circles and letters.  The students match the letters to the beginning sound of the word.  I placed a long strip of velcro on the back of each board and placed the letters specifically for that template on the back.  This makes it easy to quickly grab the template you wish the student to use and the letters are readily available. The second way that you can use the templates is by laminating them and having your student

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Compound Word Cupcakes

admin November 3, 2013 No Comments

I’ve been wanting to make this activity for quite some time.  Kyle (fabulous artist) created these super cute cupcakes just for this activity designed for learning compound words.   This activity contains 48 compound word cupcakes which are ideal for use either within your literacy centers or for small group instruction.  Your students simply match the cupcake halves to create words.  A recording sheet is included so that they can write their words. This activity is easily differentiated as you can choose which and how many cupcakes to use.   The Cupcake Matching Compound Words is available through my Teachers Pay Teachers online store or through the Make, Take & Teach website.

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