Happy December, Friends! I have two free Christmas printables for you today. I know how crazy the last few days of school can be leading up to the winter holidays, so hopefully these will help out a bit. FREE CHRISTMAS PRINTABLES The first one is a colouring page with Santa standing beside a fireplace (you can download it at the … Read more
Inside: Free template for Snakes ‘n Ladders and a link to Sight Word Chatterboxes, fun games for learning sight words. Teaching your kids sight words doesn’t have to be a chore. There are lots of super fun games out there, including the one I’m going to share with you today: Snakes ‘n Ladders. Snakes ‘n Ladders Sight Words You probably … Read more
Inside: Free sight word chatterboxes for first grade. Did you know that chatterboxes are also called fortune tellers and cootie catchers? Whatever you call them, they’re a form of origami and are also known as “salt cellars”, “whirybirds” and “taku-taku”. If you check out this Wikipedia link you can read all sorts of cool facts! I’m going to assume that … Read more
Inside: I explain how I teach printing throughout the Grade 1 year. Includes a free printing sheet. This is a repost of how I like to teach printing. Over the last 26 years or so of teaching Kindergarten to Grade 2, this is usually the time of year when I really start focusing on printing with my first graders. I … Read more
Inside: Two fun and simple Halloween spelling games Hello! It’s getting closer to Halloween which means it’s time to pull out a few fun Halloween inspired activities. I have two very simple Halloween spelling games for you today. The first one involves sidewalk chalk! Everyone likes learning outside, right? And the weather has been so amazing in my neck of … Read more
Hi Everyone! One of the lessons I teach every single day is spelling. Although I don’t call it spelling; I call it Word Work. There are lots of different things we do involving our word wall, but whatever it is, I like to keep it as fun and engaging as I can. Here’s a small sampling from last year. Rainbow … Read more
Hello! I have a little surprise for you today. I’m supposed to be writing report cards … but I got sidetracked and I’ve made some short vowel posters. These all fit 8 1/2 x 11 paper. My logo isn’t on the downloadable copy. Clip art is from clker.com and mycuteclipart.com. DOWNLOAD: FREE “SHORT VOWEL” POSTERS Enjoy!
I play a spelling game with my class every Friday called “Sparkle”. They LOVE this game and literally beg me to play it. Everyone stands in a circle. I let the special helper start first. I hold up one of six spelling words we’ve been practicing. Everyone has a quick look at it then I hide the word. The kids … Read more
First up, I’d like to thank Lory at Fun for First. She posted the coolest idea for spelling a couple of days ago and I stole it right from under her. It was a HUGE success with my kids. You really need to try it. We actually did this for the last two days in a row. I don’t know … Read more