I was running low on some of my crafts so I decided to hit up Michael’s the other day. I bought this huge bag of pom poms because there are so many things you can do with them. For my 5 year olds room time activity this morning I decided to have her do some patterning with [...]
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Sight Word Go Fish
April 5, 2009 – 11:07 pm
Here’s a fun way to reinforce sight word recognition by playing the game Go Fish. Make a deck of 21 pairs of sight words using index cards cut in half. Deal five cards to each player and make the rest the “fish pond”. Play the game just like Go Fish. As your child’s reading vocabulary [...]
Making Words Activity
March 26, 2009 – 2:39 pm
I’ve been posting a lot of activities to do with 2 year olds lately so I wanted to post one that I did with my 5 year old yesterday. When I taught 1st grade, I did a lot of making words activities with my class. They had fun doing them and had no idea just how much they [...]
Works For Me Wednesday- Discovery Tables
March 24, 2009 – 9:28 pm
I have always used Discovery Tables in my class but this week I decided to do them at home too. If you don’t know what I am talking about, Discovery Tables are tables that you put different things in such as water, soil, bird seed, sand, etc. and other items for kids to explore with. [...]
Teaching Grouping
December 6, 2008 – 10:32 pm
When I taught first grade, a part of our math curriculum was teaching kids to think in groups when solving math problems. I spent a lot of time using dice to get them to know how many were on the die without counting them. This is important for kids to grasp at a young age and will [...]