Game Boards for Spring Literacy Centers

admin April 4, 2022 No Comments

Yeah! Spring is almost here!  Living in the north, when the calendar says it’s spring it often doesn’t feel like spring at all. It is not uncommon to still have several inches of snow on the ground well into April. But when we flip that calendar to May- well, that’s when it feels like spring and that’s when I go grab those game boards for spring literacy centers. One of my favorite spring themed activities for teaching sight words are the spring-themed sight word and phonics game boards. There are 4 different designs and 9 game boards containing words from the Dolch 220 sight word list. Each game board contains 25 words from each of the 9 lists. The game

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Hard and Soft Sounds of C and G

admin March 1, 2022 No Comments

Hard and Soft Sounds of C and G Shortly after students learn the letters and sounds of the alphabet we teach them that the vowels and several consonants actually have two sounds. The consonants “c” and “g” are two of the letters that make different sounds depending on the letters that follow them in the word. Learning and teaching hard and soft sounds of c and g can be tricky, but these activities are sure to be a hit! Soft and Hard G The most common sound for the “g” is the “hard” sound as in the word “goat”.  However, if the “g” is followed by an i, e or y it makes the “soft” /j/ sound as in the

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Kindergarten Math Activities!

admin February 21, 2022 No Comments

Kindergarten Math Activities!   Your kindergarten students will love these spring themed kindergarten math activities! When teaching early math skills, hands-on activities are critical in helping our little learners understand number concepts. Adding a little seasonal twist into these activities certainly makes them engaging.  The Make, Take & Teach Spring Themed Math Bundle for Early Numeracy contains 12 hands-on activities for learning basic number concepts, counting, number order, writing numbers, and basic addition facts. Here are just a few of my favorites contained within this pack: Play-Doh Number Mats Play-Doh number mats are always a hit. When you download this activity you will receive number mats for numbers 1-10. Each mat contains an area for forming the number as well

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St. Patrick’s Day Games

admin February 18, 2022 No Comments

St. Patrick’s Day Games! Emmett and Eleanor absolutely love these St. Patrick’s Day games for learning and practicing sight words and targeted phonics skills! I just love these games too! They are fast paced and offer tons and tons of opportunities to read words. Not only do we have the Lucky You! activity for the Dolch sight words we have the activity for early phonics skills such as CVC Words, Magic e, and R Controlled Vowels. The Lucky You! games are ideal for either your small group instruction or as an activity in your literacy centers during the month of March. The games are super simple to assemble. Just print the cards single-sided to double-sided then cut along the dotted

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Games for Teaching Contractions

admin February 13, 2022 No Comments

Games for Teaching Contractions In our everyday speech, we use contractions.  Contractions are a kind of “short cut” in the way we use words to communicate.  Think about it for a bit.  If you were going to tell a friend that you aren’t going to lunch, are you likely to say, “I am not going to lunch” or “I’m not going to lunch”?  Because we use these words so often in our speech, it’s important that we teach students how to use the words in writing.  Teaching contractions can be fun and there are tons of great games for teaching contractions! Introducing Contractions When introducing the idea of contractions, it’s helpful to begin by defining the word “contract”.  “Contract” means

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Valentine’s Day Art Activity

admin February 11, 2022 No Comments

My little friend, Emmett, just loved creating a valentine collection bag for his preschool classroom. His mom, Kyle (aka the artist behind MT&T), created these cute templates for decorating the bags used for collecting his classmates’ valentines.  Aren’t they just adorable?  They are perfect for a Valentine’s Day art activity. So, we’re making them available for you too! Your students will have tons of fun creating their very own collection bags.  Simply copy the bear or rabbit for each child and have them color and glue the pieces on a paper bag.  Super simple! Be sure to have your students write their name on the heart.  To download the patterns for your own classroom set, just click the following links:

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Alphabet Activities for Valentine’s Day

admin February 10, 2022 No Comments

These alphabet activities for Valentine’s Day are perfect for your kindergarten literacy centers during the month of February! Actually, these alphabet activities can be used year round! Although all the activities can be used for small group instruction and independent centers, this Valentine Bear activity is particularly ideal for independent centers as it has a self checking feature. So here’s how that self checking feature works. First students place the beginning sound pictures on the corresponding alphabet bear template. Once all the pictures are placed on the template, the students turn the cards over and if the upper- and lowercase letters match, their responses were correct. Super easy! Great for teaching beginning sounds or upper- to lower-case letters!   The

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FLOSS Spelling Rule

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Teaching the FLOSS Spelling Rule Teaching the FLoSS spelling rule can be easy! Memory aids are often used to help students remember certain spelling rules. The FLoSS rule is one of the first spelling rules taught to our first and second grade students to help them understand when to double the final “f”, “l” and “s” consonants at the end of certain words.   The word “floss” actually follows the FLoSS rule.  When a /f/, /l/ /s/ (or /z/) is heard after a short vowel at the end of a one-syllable word, it is spelled with a double “ff”, “ll”, “ss” or “zz”.  Okay, you’re probably thinking how did that “z” sneak in there.  Well, there really aren’t too many words that end

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Valentine’s Day Math Activities

admin February 5, 2022 No Comments

Happy Valentine’s Day! These Valentine’s Day math activities are just a “sweet” addition to your Valentine’s Day math centers! We’ve developed three Valentine’s Day themed activities for our kindergarten and first grade friends. So first up, is the Valentine Match Base 10 activity. This activity has a built in self checking feature which makes it ideal for independent practice. Assembling this activity is super simple. Just print the bears and cut them out. You’ll have an activity that will last for years. For this activity, students match the base ten blocks to the bears and then turns the square containing the picture representation of the base ten blocks over. If the numbers match, the answer is correct! When you download

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Valentine’s Day Lotto Game!

admin January 24, 2022 No Comments

For my kindergarten and first grade friends just learning to read CVC words, I created this fun and engaging lotto game with a Valentine’s Day theme. The best part? You can download this activity for FREE. Yep, that’s right, it’s absolutely free! This Valentine’s Day Lotto game is perfect for your Valentine’s Day centers or for your small group instruction. This lotto game is super easy to assemble- just print the game boards on card stock, print the lotto cards and cut them out- that’s it! You’ll have a fun and engaging game that will last for years! Be sure to visit our Teachers Pay Teachers store to download this game. Check our other games and activities for Valentine’s Day

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Make Your Own Phonics Phones!

admin January 22, 2022 No Comments

Make Your Own Phonics Phones! Phonics phones and mirrors are two of the most important items in an early elementary small group instructional area. Phonics phones amplify the student’s voice helping the student to focus and pay attention to the individual sounds.  Although you can purchase them, you can certainly make your own phonics phones.  These phones are super easy to make.   Just follow the directions below: Purchase a 3/4″ PVC pipe and 3/4″ elbow joints (you will need 2 for each phone) Cut PVC pipe into 3 1/2 inch sections Put an elbow joint on each end of the pipe Colorful duct tape can be wrapped around the center of the pipe for fun. Use the phones… 1.

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Word Family Activities Just for Valentine’s Day

admin January 21, 2022 No Comments

We created these “sweet” little word family activities just for Valentine’s Day! Teaching word families is often one of the first steps in teaching students to decode words. Introducing word families helps students recognize “chunks” within a word. Working with word families also builds phonemic awareness.  When we teach these word chunks (aka as “phonograms”) we group words that have a similar pattern allowing students to read the words quickly by learning the pattern within the word. Because these words have a predictable pattern, often differing by only one sound, we say they all belong to a “word family”. The words within a word family rhyme as they have the same ending. Students just love word family activities! Once they

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