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1st Grade Sight Words- Building Leaf Words

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1st Grade Sight Words Building Leaf Words

Not everybody has  abundance of fall leaves that descend into their backyard the way we do here in South Carolina and some people long to have autumn leaves. I remember several years agp reading about a lady who wanted fall leaves sent to her so her children could learn and explore with them. When I came across a package for crepe paper colored Continue Reading

{Free Printable} Word Games- Sight Word Scarecrow Game

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I am going to use the  Scarecrow Word Sight Word Game in this post to play words games that focus on sight words with my son. I thought you might like a copy of it to use with your children. You actually may decide that you want to play different word games with it or work on other reading concepts instead. It has been purposely left open ended. Continue Reading

Reading Games- Sight Word Stackers

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Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

There is just something wonderful about stacking cups. As soon as I took out these sight word stackers or cups with sight words on their bottoms, I was asked what we were going to do with them. “We are going to play a sight word reading games,” I announced. I confess that there was a slight sigh that slipped out of someone’s mouth. Stacking Continue Reading

Apple Learning Activities- Sunday Showcase

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Apple Learning Activities

  I looked through the treasure trove of posts shared on the Sunday Showcase over the past few years hunting for apple themed learning activities. Boy, there have been a lot of wonderful posts shared through out the years during the months of August and September. I selected eight of them to share with you.  It was really hard to narrow down the Continue Reading

Spelling Games With Mixed Up Words and Apples

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Spelling Games with Mixed Up Words

  We recently purchased a huge container of red plastic cups to use at a family reunion. We must have over bought because there were tons of red cups left over. We can save some for the next family gathering, but I just knew we could use some of them now for spelling games. I just needed to think about how for  a little while. What I came Continue Reading

Spelling Activities- Trace and Write

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Spelling Activities- Trace and Write

As I mentioned in yesterday's post (Practicing Spelling Words with a Place Mat), I am featuring activities you can do in your classroom or a home that work on spelling words this week. Today's spelling activity is called Trace and Write.  I decided to make it after looking at an amazing glass message board on the Better Homes and Gardens For Home Continue Reading

Practicing Spelling Words with a Place Mat

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Practicing Spelling Words with a Place Mat

We have just started our first year of practicing spelling words and taking a weekly spelling test. Every night we do an activity in JDaniel's homework notebook using his spelling words. Along with doing those activities I thought it would be fun to come up with some other ways to work with his words. This week I will be sharing an activity each Continue Reading

Shop Your Way – In Vehicle Pick Up #MORETOYOU

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By the time I had finished second grade my mom had become a single parent. She had three young girls to raise along with teaching 24 kindergartners. To say that her days were busy would be an understatement. Once a season she would head to Sears to get us each a few new clothes to wear.  She knew she could count the clothes she got for us at there Continue Reading

Preschool Activities- Five Little Apples Rhymes and Craft

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Preschool Activities- Five Little Apples

Preschool activities that involve reciting rhymes like Five Little Apples and creating props to go with them are fun. This post shares several apple rhymes.  There are really dozens of Five Little Apple Rhymes. I have selected just a few to share with you that I thought would go well with the apple tree craft I created. While I created this apple Continue Reading

Cool Math Games for Kids- Apple Seed Counting

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Cool Math Games for Kids- Appleseed Couting

  Some of the really cool games for kids can be played various ways. They also have various levels of difficulty. This homemade apple seeds game is called Apple Seed Counting, but it could be used for working on a variety of types of adding. There are also a number of ways to work with the sums created by adding the two sides of each Continue Reading

Building Word Families – Worms and Apples

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Building Word Families- Worms and Apples

  Becoming familiar with building words and getting to know word families is  foundational to  learning to read in my opinion. I know that not all children learn by using phonics skills and word families, but  a lot of them do. My son happens to be someone who liked to break a word down and stretch out its sounds. This worm and apple word Continue Reading

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