The Magic e Game Boards activity is available through my online Teachers Pay Teachers store. Many of my first grade teacher friends are looking for fun and interactive center activities. Here's a fun little freebie for practicing the magic e rule. When you download this … [Read more...]
Halloween 4-In-A-Row FREEBIE for Math
The Halloween Themed 4-In-A-Row activity for Addition and Subtraction Facts is available through my Teachers Pay Teachers store. Here's a fun little freebie for practicing addition and subtraction facts. It's great for either your small group instruction or as an activity for … [Read more...]
Teaching Phonemic Awareness Skills
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in spoken words and the understanding that spoken words are made up of sequences of speech sounds. The child's level of phonemic awareness upon entering school is one of the strongest indicators of how well … [Read more...]
Are You Ready For Some Football?
Are you ready for some football? I absolutely love football! From our friday night high school games, to traveling to Michigan State University to watch the Spartans to weekend pro games. Love it all! Your little football fans just might get a kick out these … [Read more...]
D.I.Y. Letter Tiles and a Freebie!
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 … [Read more...]
Fun Little Alphabet Games
Kyle created this cute little ladybug for another activity and I thought he would be ideal for a fun little springtime and summer themed alphabet activity. When you download the ABC Ladybug game you'll receive 4 free ladybug game boards and letter circles. To play the game, … [Read more...]
Dolch 220 Sight Word Assessment
The Dolch 220 sight words make up between 50-70% of the words we encounter in text. Most of these words cannot be sounded out and students need to be taught to instantly recognize these words in order to be fluent readers. Because recognizing these words is so important during … [Read more...]
Springtime Vowel Sorting Freebie!
I was out shopping the other day and stopped in at the Dollar Tree. It's so much fun when they change their seasonal items. The spring items are especially fun to use in some sort of activity. These cute little watering cans are ideal for a sorting activity. We have a few … [Read more...]
More St. Patrick’s Day Activities!
I was in my teacher friend, Deb's, classroom this week and her students were working with common vowel teams. We checked her inventory of activities and decided we needed to make some fun activities for use in her literacy centers to work on this phonics skill. For a quick and … [Read more...]