It just hit me one day! I was cleaning the basement and came across a whole stack of old Disney movies. I just couldn't throw them away- oh, the memories. What could I do with all those movies? Okay, maybe it's not the best solution for the movies themselves, but the CASES! … [Read more...]
Winter Themed Activities for Teaching R-Controlled Vowels
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 … [Read more...]
Making Your Own Activities with Hot Dots
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 … [Read more...]
Free R-Controlled Vowels Posters
Creating these R-Controlled Vowels posters has been on my to-do list for quite sometime. Today is my official first day of summer vacation and there's no better way to begin vacation than to get going on that never-ending list. Of course, there's a few household chores, but … [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...]
Four In A Row Winter Themed Freebie
These cute little 4-In-A-Row templates have just been sitting in my computer files just waiting to be made into an activity. Last month I used the templates to create activities for sight words, but I know many of our kinders are now working on decoding CVC words and I wanted to … [Read more...]
R Controlled Vowels
When a vowel is followed by an r, the r changes the sound that the vowel makes. The vowel is called an r-controlled vowel. Sometimes teachers refer to the "r" as the "bossy r" because the r "bosses" the vowel to make a new sound. When the "a" is followed by r, it makes the … [Read more...]