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Editable Sight Word Games with Star Wars Themes

May 1, 2018 By Deirdre

You could use these editable sight word games on May the 4th Be with You Day. Actually, your children could use them any day of the year. They would be fun explore while your class is learning about space, robots, or even transportation. Once you open the sight word games PDF, you could type in any sight words they are working on in class or at home.

Getting the Sight Word Games Ready to Use

The first thing you will need to do is to download the Editable Sight Word Games with Star Wars Theme PDF.

Then you will need to decide which game board you want your children to work on.

Next, you will need to type the words you want your children to work on onto the game spaces. Some of the game spaces can hold longer words and others shorter words. If you find a word not fitting in one space, you can try typing it in another space.

When you have all of your words typed in, you can print out your game board out on a color printer.

Gathering the Other Supplies You will Need

Each child or group of children will need to following supplies to play the game.

LEGO Star Wars Mini Figuresor Game Pieces

Numbered Dice

Playing the Sight Word Games

Your children can roll and read the words on their own game boards or with a friend. The benefit of playing with a friend is that they will let you know if you read each word correctly. Another alternative is that you sit with your child or children as they play the game. You can let them know if they have read each word correctly.

Here are some more editable worksheets your children will love:

Editable Counting to Ten Coding Worksheet

Community Helper Vehicle Number Puzzles

Editable Word Work Activities

We love Star Wars! Here are some more Star Wars activities we have done.

Star Wars Light Saber Shape Craft

Chewbacca Shape Craft

Yoda Paper Bag Puppet

Chewbacca Paper Bag Puppet

5 Days of Printable Pirate Activities for Kids

October 1, 2017 By Deirdre

Once a month I work with 3 Dinosaurs and Royal Baloo to share collections of free themed printables for preschool and elementary ages children. This month we will be sharing printable pirate activities and worksheets. Your children will have fun exploring these collections of printables with pirates, parrots and treasure chests.

Each day I will post the printable each of us has put up for the day.If you don’t find what you are looking for on one day, don’t despair! Just come back the next day and see what we have created for you. By the end of the week, I am sure you will find several learning pages and printable pirate activities you will want your children to explore.

While you are waiting for the week to start, here are some printable pirate printable you can use today!

Printable Pirate Activities

Pirate Color By Math- Fractions, Addition, and Place Value

Pirate Themed Writing Paper

5 Little Pirates Finger Puppets and Rhyme

Jake and the Pirates Early Learning Printables

Pirate Themed Math Printables

5 Days of Printable Pirate Activities

Each day I will add the printables shared on 3 Dinosaurs, Royal Baloo and JDaniel4’s Mom.

Monday

Roll a Silly Pirate Sentence

Pirate Themed Array Printables

R Controlled Vowel Printable Activities

Tuesday

What Can a Pirate Sail? Easy Reader

Pirate Skip Counting Printable for Beginning Multiplication

Arrr You Reading to Work on Long Vowel Sounds

If you like these learning printable and activities, you will find more on my Early Learning board on Pinterest.

Pumpkin Sight Word Worksheets for Preschoolers

September 6, 2017 By Deirdre

This is day three of five days of pumpkin printables. Day One featured a pumpkin graphing set for preschoolers. Day Two focused on two digit addition with and without regrouping. Today’s set features pumpkin themed sight word sentences.

Sight Word Worksheets

Getting Ready

Before you can use this set of sight word worksheets, you will need to download them. You can click on Reading Comprehension Worksheets – Let’s Read About Pumpkins to get your free set of sight word worksheets.

Getting Started

You can have your children work on all or just one of the pumpkin printables. Each sight word worksheet has the same number of sentences. They all have sight words from the pre-primer and primer Dolch sight words lists.

First Things First

The word pumpkin doesn’t appear on either of the sight word lists. Your children will notice that in place of the word pumpkin a picture of a pumpkin appears. Just in case they don’t notice a picture key is at the top of each of the sight word worksheets.

Reading the Sentences

You children will have fun reading each one of the sentences. They will find that only a few of them are long. The short sentences should be easiest for them to read.

Coloring the Pumpkins

After they have read each sentence, you can have your children color in the pumpkin that appears in it. It will be a reward for successfully reading each of the sentences.

If you like this reading printable, here are some more free printables you will want to check out.

Apple Themed Reading Comprehension Sheets

Reading Dolch Words with Crabby the Crab

Reading and Building Words Under the Sea Printable

Free Printable Books for Beginning Readers

Free Emergent Readers

Free Printable Word Family Books

You will find more reading activities and printables on my Learn to Read board on Pinterest.

Reading Dolch Words with Crabby the Crab Printables

July 13, 2017 By Deirdre

The summertime is a great time to explore sight words. This printable crab names Crabby and his lists of the first 100 sight words will give your children at home or students at school the opportunity to work on reading Dolch words.

Exploring Dolch Words with Crabby

Preparing the Activity

Before you can start exploring Dolch words with Crabby, you will need to print out the Reading Dolch Words with Crabby Crab. Both the Crabby word slides and the Dolch words on slides will need to be printed out on card stock. You may want to laminate them. They will be more durable if they have been covered. They Dolch words will also slip more easily through the slot in the Crabby’s slide if they are covered.

Ready to Start Exploring the Dolch Words

Once you have your slides covered and cut out, your children can slip the first slide with Dolch words into place. Your children will need to slip the words up so that they can see the first word just above Crabby’s claws.

As they read each of the words, they can pull up the slide until the next word is showing. Your children will continue this process until they have read all the words on that slide.

If they miss any words, you can have them move those words back to just above Crabby’s claws one at a time and try them again.

Making Reading Dolch Words Fun

Some children may think that just reading Dolch words for a list is boring. After reading through each of the word lists once or twice, you can offer your children the opportunity to say them in fun ways.

You could ask your children to try to come up with a voice that a crab might use to read words. If they have trouble coming up with a voice, you could suggest that they read them like one of the voices listed below.

Fun Voices

A crab might talk like a pirate.
It might have a very grouchy voice.
The crab might talk in a soft whisper so predator might not find him.
A loud voice might be used because he loves words.

Working with More Words

Once your children have mastered the first 100 Dolch words, you can easily create more word slides on tagboard that are the same size and shape as the slides in the set. You could even place vocabulary words from ocean themed books on words slides for your children to explore.

Crab Themed Books

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A House for Hermit Crab

Crab Moon

Clumsy Crab

If you like this ocean themed printable, here are some more you will love:

Reading and Building Words Under the Sea

Find, Count and Graph Ocean Objects

Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets with LEGO

What Time is it Mr. Hermit Crab?

Teaching Feelings with Jellyfish

100 Fun and Easy Learning Games for Kids

May 30, 2016 By Deirdre

I try to activities I plan for my son to do that tie into things he is interested in. Right now he is into LEGO! (They are currently LEGO all over our living room floor. ) When I came across an amazing sight word sensory bottle activity in a terrific book called 100 Fun & Easy Learning Games for Kids: Teach Reading, Writing, Math and More With Fun Activities, I decided I needed to make a LEGO sight word sensory bottle. It would give JDaniel the opportunity to work on breaking down and sounding out high interest words. A number of them have the r sound we are working on.

You are going to love Kim and Amanda of The Educator’s Spin on It’s terrific book called 100 Fun & Easy Learning Games for Kids: Teach Reading, Writing, Math and More With Fun Activities. The sight word sensory bottle activity I adapted is totally based on theirs. We will be doing a number of their activities this summer. This book shares activities that young children can do along with rising third graders like JDaniel. I just love that we can used them review and learn new concepts this summer in fun ways.

Here are the Directions for the Sight Word Sensory Bottle:

Materials

Empty, clean 2-liter soda bottle
Tiny filler items such as rice, beads, sequins or bells
Small foam rectangles
Black permanent marker
One-minute sand timer

Directions to Make

Fill the bottle halfway with tiny fillers of your choosing.

Write five chosen sight words on the foam rectangles. Sample sight words: I, the, and, see, it.

Add the words to the bottle.

Close the lid tightly and shake until the words and fillers mix.

Directions to Play

Set the timer for 1 minute.

Roll the bottle and read.

See if you can find all five words before the time ends.

You can find more information about 100 Fun & Easy Learning games over at The Educators’s Spin On It.

LEGO Sight Word Sensory Bottle

Supplies

Plastic Bottle
LEGO
LEGO Sight Words* (I typed them into a table on the computer and printed them out.)

Sight Words We Used:

bricks, hub, axle, studs, tiles, diorama, vignette, inventory, tube, slope, curve

*I found these words on several online LEGO glossaries and dictionaries.

Directions for Creation and Play

We followed the creation directions from the book. We also followed their directions for how to play the game.

You are going to love seeking and finding fantastic activities for your kids in 100 Fun & Easy Learning Games for Kids: Teach Reading, Writing, Math and More With Fun Activities by Kim Vij and Amanda Boyarshinov.

You find more LEGO learning activities on right here on JDaniel4’s Mom and on my LEGO Learning Activities board on Pinterest.

Disclaimer: This activity has been shared with permission from the publisher of the book 100 FUN & EASY LEARNING GAMES FOR KIDS. I received a free copy of the book from the publisher so we could share it with you! All opinions are mine!

Kid’s Science Activity – Planting and Growing Grass Words

April 20, 2016 By Deirdre

Kid’s science experiments that tie into other learning areas are twice as fun. This planting and growing grass words activity weaves science and words study together. Children are given the opportunity to grow words or letters using grass seed. We grew the word grow. You could have your children grow other plant related words like grass, seed, or plant. Younger children could focus on arranging the grass seed into the first letter of their first or last name. No matter what words or letters you decide to focus on your children will love creating, growing and even trimming during the process of conducting this kid’s science activity.

Kid’s Science Activity with Words

Gathering Supplies

Metal tray or container wide enough to contain the word or letter your children will plant
Card displaying the word or letter your children will be creating
Potting soil
Grass seed
Chopstick or pencil
Water

Creating the Words in Seeds

Kid's Science - Planting and Growing Grass Words

The grass has been thinned out some so the letters can more easily be seen.

It is really important that your children know what the word or letter looks like. They will be trying to replicate it in the potting soil. Seeing the word in print will help them as they draw the letter or letters. A simple index card displaying the the letter or letters will do. Your children can create the card or you can create it for them.

The next step is to fill the container with potting soil. The deeper your soil the deeper your children can draw the letter. Our container has about 4 inches of dirt.

Then your children will need to draw the letters of the selected word or the letter of their name in the soil with a chopstick or pencil. We created the word on the surface of the dirt and then carved each of the letters deeper into the soil after we knew it looked the way we wanted it to.

The grass seed was then added to this kid’s science activity space. They will want to add enough seed to clearly define each letter. (We could have used more seed on our letter “R”.)

Finally a thin layer of dirt was added to cover the grass seed and the soil was lightly watered. (We watered the grass a little everyday.)

It took a number of days for the seed to sprout. It was so exciting to see the letters of the word grow sprout out of the soil. Once it started to grow, we then had to trim the letters. When the grass got too tall, we couldn’t see the word. That was an added benefit. Trimming the grass was actually a lot of fun. (It is also a great fine motor activity.)

Here are some more science activity ideas with plants I think you will like:

Coding a Plant Growth Algorithm

Planting a Pumpkin in a Pumpkin

Recycled Planter on a String

STEM Gardening- Paper Plate Greenhouse

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets

August 10, 2015 By Deirdre

Over the last few years I have created a number for language arts worksheets and printables for my son to work on. They have been gathered together in the post so that you can used them with your children. I hope you have as much fun with them as we have.

Language Arts Worksheets

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Build The Alphabet with LEGO Light Sabers

These LEGO themed light sabers can be used to build the letters of the alphabet. The free printable has light sabers for various sizes that can be used for letter building.

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Sight Word Scarecrow Game

A printable scarecrow themed game board can be used to work on sight words or really any skills that your children to need focus on.

How-to-Use-LEGO-and-Reading-Worksheets-To-Explore-Colors

Fill in the Color Word Sentences for LEGO

I composed to language art worksheets that have blanks where color words should be. Your children can use various colored LEGO to fill in the blanks. These are a little like Mad Libs!

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

This Mouse Needs a House Reading Comprehension Sheets

I was given the opportunity to review the wonderful children’s book This Mouse Needs a House. I created to language arts worksheets that give children the opportunity work on reading comprehension skills. Children can read the book on their own with as a class and then share what they remember from the book.

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Spelling Trace and Write

This spelling practice printable was placed in a picture frame. My son was able to write each spelling word I called out to him on the frame’s glass. When we were done, it was super easy to clean off the glass.

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Summer Writing Journal Prompts

Some children have trouble knowing what to write in their journals. They need something to inspire them. I made this list of summer writing prompts for my son. He is just the kind of child the needs a little inspiration before writing.

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Printable Sight Word Spiders for Floor Webs

This set of printable spiders has a blank area for you or your children to write in sight words they need to work on. We explored the sight word spiders on a tape web in our garage.

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Chicken Themed Letter Recognition

This is one of those language arts worksheets that you complete by rolling dice. I made lowercase letter dice for my son to roll. My son had to color in the uppercase letter that matched the letter he rolled.

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All you need to make your own wooden letter dice are small wood cubes and colored dot stickers.

Awesome Language Arts Worksheets and Learning Printables

Writing Sight Words on a Rainbow Printable

The goal of this worksheet is to write each of the sight words on the cloud on a one of the band of the rainbow. They can write each word as many times as they can on its band of the rainbow.

We had fun exploring, reviewing and learning using each of these language arts worksheets. I hope you will too. Please let me know which ones you decide to try with your children in a comment below or on my Facebook page.

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Sight Word Eye Charts Featuring Dolch Sight Words

July 22, 2015 By Deirdre

Just before my son started kindergarten we read the book The Kindergarten Pirate. After reading the book, I created some Dolch sight word word eye charts. I thought it would be fun to try to read words with one eye like the pirate in the book. The Dolch sight word charts were shared as just one activity that we did to extend the themes from the book. Recently I reworked the Preschool Sight Word Eye Charts. (You will find the link for updated charts in this post and the Kindergarten Pirate post.) They are such fun! You may want to try using them with your kids.

My son placed a plastic spoon over one eye and tried to read down the eye chart to the sight words in the smallest font. Then I had him switch eyes and try to read from the bottom of the chart back up to the top. Each line of dolch sight words is numbered. You could easily have your children read just the words on a particular line. Anyway you choose to have children read the words will be fine. I like the idea of mixing up the order of the words they are reading.

We kept a chart up for a few days at a time before putting up the next one. If you have strong readers or are doing this activity to review words, you may want to change the chart more often. You could also set the charts and a spoon up in a center for your children to work on.

Other Ways to Use the Dolch Sight Words on Eye Charts

You really don’t have to have your children cover one eye while they are reading the words. They could just read the words line by line with both eyes.
If you are working on a table and have pointer, you can have them read the words one line at a time pointing to each word as they read it.

If you try these Dolch sight word eye charts, leave a comment below or leave me a comment on my Facebook page telling me how it went.

Reading Games- Sight Word Stackers

September 8, 2014 By Deirdre

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 cups is fun. Decoding words isn’t always viewed as fun, but it
can be made to be fun.

Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

It can be fun to race a friend to read the words on the cup. The first person to
read the word at the top of the stack gets to have the cup build a wall or tower
with. If it looks like one person maybe a stronger reader than the other, you
can have the children take turns reading the words on the cups. When a word is
not read correctly, it goes to the bottom of the pile or stack. (It can make someone
feel awful to have a friend quickly read a word they have struggled with.)

Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

It can be fun to have the full stack of cups to read on your own or without
a friend too. The same rules apply to this version of the game. When you read a
word, you get to build with it. If you miss the word, it goes to the bottom of
the stack. That way you will be able to try to sound out a word a second time.
Another fun sight word game to play with the sight word stackers is to build
towers that contain the same vowel sound. You could even create cups that focus
on long or short vowel sounds. I just placed the words on a first grade sight word
list on the cups. We are able to stack by vowel sounds, but our stacks for
particular sounds weren’t very tall.

Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

This same set of reading games could be done with spelling words. You could spell
and read the words on each cup to earn the opportunity to stack with it.

If you have child who seems reluctant to read the words in these reading games, you
might let them explore the cups first. Once they are hooked on stacking them, I
bet they will be willing to read the words on them.

Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

Here are some more Learning to Read Activities I have pinned on Pintererst.

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Sight Word Game – Apple Tree Words

October 8, 2013 By Deirdre

When JDaniel came home from school last week, he found an Apple Tree Words sight word game hanging from a tree beside our driveway. “What is that? ” he asked me. “It is a fun way to work on sight or popcorn words,” I told him.
He gave me a look like more sight words. Yes, we have been working on sight words a lot this fall. JDaniel is learning some of them at school and we have been working on some at home. We have worked with them several different ways. There has been sight word snacks and sight word eye charts to name a few. Apple Tree Words gave him a chance to play a game that required him to get up and move.

Sight Word Game – Apple Tree Words

Create
I found some apple cutouts in my fall folder of ideas. ( I love when I find treasures like that.) On each of the apples, I placed a sight word. The apples were then mounted onto a blank index card. The cards had holes punched into them and ribbon placed through the hole.

When the cards are completed, I hung them up on a tree with low hanging branches.

Play

JDaniel was given a plastic basket to collect the apples from the tree. Each apple could not be picked until the word on the apple had been read. If I had to help me sound out the word, the apple had a remain hanging until he had read one other apple word correctly.

JDaniel’s favorites are the one and two letter words. He went for those first.Word after word came down from the tree. There were only a few words that gave him any trouble. He actually ended up having to capture each word between his fingers and reading it.

After the Activity Idea
The one thing that I didn’t plan for in this sight word game was that JDaniel might try to pull the apple tree words down instead of trying to slip the ribbons off the branches. Thankfully the tree we used for the apple tree word sight word game has flexible limbs. When he pulled the words down the limp bowed down and let the word’s ribbon slip right off.Have you picked apples this year?