Sight Word Freebie

Since our class is off to the farm, here is a fun game that my students like to play. We play with 2-4 students. Each students needs their own playing board (farm board) and make the same number of word card copies. Laminate and place all of your word cards in a bag. Students then reach in the bag, pull out a card and read the word. If they can read it, they keep it, and they place a marker (block, unifix cube, whatever you have) on their game board. If they are unable to read it,their friends help them out and read it for them and they must put the word back in the bag and it's the next person's turn. If they pull a word that they already have marked on their game board, they still read it, but place the word back in the bag, and lose a turn. The first one to cover all of their words is the winner. My students almost fight over this game, and it's a fun way for them to review sight words. Enjoy!

Sight Word Game

Community Helpers

Here are the community helpers pics that I took in the class. The kids have really enjoyed pretending to be community helpers. There's lots of good vocabulary and oral language development going on in the dramatic play areas.

This year we had a hospital operating room, a doctor's office, a veterinarian clinic,firetruck, and a beauty shop. I think they enjoyed the operating room the most. It's so much fun to sit back, watch, and listen as the children incorporate all the great information they are learning from books that we've read into the dramatic play areas.

We also had a fireman, doctor, and police officer come to the classroom to talk to the children about their careers. Lot's of fun.

As a culminating activity the children all dressed as a favorite community helper and we had a cute parade down the hallway. FUN!!!

Got to Get Back On It!!!

Well, I've been so very busy and haven't posted since October. Shame on me! I've really missed blogstalking, posting, and grabbing great ideas from all you bloggers. But I'm back now!. Thank you to all the new followers that have come by since I've been gone.

My class is getting ready to start our Community Helpers theme. It's one of my favorites. I really get into creating a real community in the classroom. Look for pictures soon.

Alphabet Song

Here's a cool alphabet song that I found. It's from www.havefunteaching.com, but you can YouTube it.. My kids love it!!! It has a great beat and I love the way that it shows the capital and lower case letters. There's only one glitch. When the video shows gives the sounds and shows the letters phonetically, the letter "Q" is /kw/ and the letter "X" is /ks/. Not a big problem. My kids ask for this song every day. Enjoy!

Math Freebie

Here's a little math freebie that I made. I use this for one to one correspondence and number order. Sometimes we use pom poms, cotton, or playdough on top of the dots and we pick them up using tweezers, tongs, or chopsticks for fine motor practice. Click here to download.

Enjoy!


Fall Number Cards

Great Website

I may be a little late, but I just came across this great website (via pinterest)with all kinds of themed ideas to use in your classroom. I especially like the geoboard letters. Check it out it's www.makinglearningfun.com

It's Been a Long Time

Wow!!! It's been a while since I've posted anything. I've been very busy at work with the new group of Pre-K's. I like this little group, they are so eager to learn and excited about everything that happens in the classroom.

Cheers to a great start!