If you’re a teacher or a home-schooler I think you’ll really like this new set of clip art I made. It’s beginning sounds for the letters of the alphabet, in both colour and black/white. I had a black and white set that I made a year ago and finally got around to updating it with colour images. I also improved … 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
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
Do your kids love to get up and boogie around the classroom? Yes? Then you’re going to LOVE this fun activity for practicing sight words. I found this on The Reading Corner and instantly knew I HAD to try it. Thank you, Renee! (I would link to her blog if I could but sadly it no longer exists.) We did … Read more
Inside: A quick review of Spelling Through Phonics and some ideas for using the book. I absolutely love the McCracken books and probably have all of them. I think they have one of the best spelling programs around. Mind you, I supplement it with Cunningham’s word wall work, spelling centres and sight word poems, but honestly, I couldn’t live without … 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