Cookie Sheet Activities First Grade Bundle!

admin July 23, 2013 No Comments

  Phew!  What a summer project.  It took about a month, but I was able to combine several of the cookie sheet activities into bundles.  Volumes 1 (ABC Order, Rhyme, and Making Words), 2 (Early Numeracy) and 4 (Beginning Sounds) comprise the Pre K- Kindergarten Cookie Sheet Bundle.  Those volumes are ideal for preschool and kindergarten literacy centers (and even beginning first). Now just for my first grade friends.  The First Grade Cookie Sheet Activities Bundle includes Volume 3 (sight words), 5 (Blends and Digraphs) and 6 (Word Families).  Below are the activities contained within the First Grade bundle.  Volume 3 Cookie Sheet Activities Volume 3 contains 3 sight word activities designed to be used during small group instruction or

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D.I.Y. Tactile Letters

admin July 19, 2013 No Comments

It’s somewhat of a mixed blessing living in a small town.  I love where I live, but outside of Walmart and Meijer, there really isn’t much terms of shopping.  It’s always a treat, though, when I get to travel to a “big city” about an hour from my home and visit the Michael’s Craft Store.  I’m afraid if we had a Michael’s I’d be in that store everyday!  Well on a recent shopping trip, I picked up these felt letters.  I though they’d be perfect for making tactile letters. I found a version of this idea on Pinterest a few weeks ago.  I’d love to give the blogger credit, but when I clicked the link, the blog was no longer

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Cookie Sheet Activities Pre K- Kindergarten Bundle!

admin July 16, 2013 No Comments

Well, over the past year and a half I’ve been adding to the cookie sheet activities series.  Right now there are 6 volumes and I have several more in process.  I’ve received numerous requests to bundle the activities, so I’m taking advantage of the summer months to do just that.  All the volumes contain a large amount of graphics so bundling all 6 was just not possible.  What I decided to do was to create a bundle of three volumes specifically for Pre K- kindergarten and then one for first grade.  Of course, all the volumes are available individually, but if you’d like to purchase the Cookie Sheet Activities Pre K- Kindergarten Bundle, you’ll receive the following activities.  Cookie Sheet

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Teaching Phoneme Segmentation

admin July 14, 2013 No Comments

Phonemic awareness is one of my favorite topics relating to literacy instruction.  Studies of reading development have demonstrated that the acquisition of phonemic awareness is highly predictive of success in learning to read.  It’s so important that our beginning readers have an understanding that spoken words are made of up individual speech sounds so that phonics instruction makes sense.  Teaching phonemic awareness skills can be actually quite fun.  There are tons of activities that you can use during your whole and small group instruction.  Here are a few: There are several skills which fall under the category of phonemic awareness and phonemic awareness awareness falls under a broader category known as phonological awareness.   I’ve created this little video to

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D.I.Y. Letter Tiles and a Freebie!

admin July 10, 2013 No Comments

I just love it when you can find a way cheaper way of creating educational items.  Sometimes ordering from a catalog can be so expensive.  Word building activities are very important for our kindergarten and first grade kiddos as they learn that letters can be put together to make words.  It’s so much more effective when each student can have their own set.  Creating your own letter tiles is quite easy.  All you need is a fine point black Sharpie marker and plastic tiles.  I like to buy the plastic tiles in bulk as I use them for several other activities. It’s super easy to make your letter tiles.  Simply write the letters on the tiles with your Sharpie marker.

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Acorn Matching Activities

admin July 8, 2013 No Comments

Last week Kyle created these cute little acorns and I just couldn’t resist getting started on making a few fall-themed activities.   We created 3 sets using the acorns- one for rhyming, one for beginning sounds and the other for vocabulary.  When you download the rhyme activity you’ll receive 34 colorful acorns with rhyming matches. Click  HERE to download the activity from my TpT store. I’m lovin’ the Acorn Beginning Sounds activity for working with learning letters and sounds.  Of course, when you download this activity, you’ll receive 26 acorns with the letters of the alphabet and a corresponding picture. You can download this activity directly though the TPT store. One of my goals this school year is to create more

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Making Your Own Activities with Hot Dots

admin July 3, 2013 No Comments

I love Hot Dots!  You can purchase pre-made activities or just make your own with a pen and the Hot Dot stickers.  Watch the video and I’ll show you how.   If you’d like to create an activity using the Make, Take & Teach cards, you can download the Tee It Up for Sounds activity either from the Make, Take & Teach website or from my Teachers Pay Teachers online store.  When you download this activity  you’ll receive 52 cards targeting the identification of beginning and ending sounds in words. We also have the Tee It Up for Digraphs version!  There are 52 colorful cards with sh, th, ch and the th sounds.  You can also find this activity in the

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Sight Word Games for our Little Baseball Fans

admin June 24, 2013 No Comments

Oh…it’s summertime!  It’s pretty important to keep our little ones engaged and there’s no better way to do that than to use games and activities.  Here’s a fun little baseball-themed activity for practicing the Dolch 220 sight words.  I love this game because it’s fast-paced and offers tons of opportunities for practice.  To assemble this game, simply print the baseballs single-sided to double-sided and cut them out.  Players take turns choosing baseballs and reading the words.  Pick a “Home Run!” ball and the player can pick a few more balls, but choose the “You’re Out!” ball, and all the balls must be put back into the pile.   Super easy to assemble and the kids absoulutely love it. The Home Run! for the Dolch 220 sight words can be downloaded from my TpT

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Strategies for Working with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

admin June 24, 2013 No Comments

Will you be welcoming a student with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) into your classroom this fall?  If this is your first experience having a child with ASD in your classroom you may be a tad nervous (well, likely more that just a tad).  You may be wondering how in the world are you going to meet the needs of this one child while balancing the needs of the other children in your classroom.  How will you handle the behaviors?  What do the parents expect?  Children with ASD often come with them a barrage of service providers such as Speech/Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Behavioral Consultants and sometimes a 1:1 para-professional– how are we all going to be working together?  You may

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Magic e Activity Pack and Intervention Kit

admin June 15, 2013 No Comments

Thanks for stopping by the Make, Take & Teach blog to check out the Magie e Activity Pack and Intervention Kit.  The 15 activities contained within this activity pack and kit are ideal for use within your targeted small group instruction to teach the magic e rule.  We know that children learn best through a hands-on approach to teaching and learning.  The activities in the pack/kit are hands-on activities which means that you will need to gather some materials to assemble several of the activities.  If you choose to order the kit, all the materials and printables are provided for you.  The following activities are contained within the pack/kit: A 17 page teaching manual provides step-by-step directions for each activity. 

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