Sunday, October 21, 2018

Halloween Compound Words, Activities and Introduction Video

Compounds word are words that consist of two words that have meaning and can stand alone. Some compound words (thirty-one) have a hyphen separating the words  and are considered hyphenated compound words. 











Video
 

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

4 In A Row Open Ended Game Inspired by 4 in a Row

My students love playing 4 In a Row so I decided to replace the black and red chips with words.
This post consists of  several templates to use in your classroom.  The first is a fill in template. You chose the category and the  two words you want students to practice.  The remaining templates are templates I filled in and used in the classroom.  They are ready to print and use. In the example below  the category was initial consonant digraphs specifically /th/.  The two words chosen were the and this
In this example the category was - verbs and the two words words chosen were: likes and can 
The Object of the Game  
The first player to get 4 words in a row (across, down or diagonally wins)
                                                                        This is a fill in template
For the fill in template you can assign words, have kids pick flash cards or spin for words that you determined 


Ready to use templates











Sunday, September 30, 2018

Number Recognition, Number Identification, Number Words and Making Cubes
Making a cube using graph paper
 Student Cubes
Practice Pages
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You can also buy cube patterns
Fold and Decorate
Video

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Picture Problems, Number Bonds annd Word Problems

Picture Problems, Number Bonds and Word Problems
Seven Panda Bears and Five Koala Bears
 
Seven Butterflies and Three Bees
Templates for the above practice pages and additional templates




 
 
 
 


Monday, September 10, 2018

Writing Toolbox - There is a story to tell!

Our Writing Toolbox!  It consists of Various Pictures that students select to write about.  It is also full of fun pencils, highlighters, erasers and sticky notes!
Class Writing.  We selected a picture and decided on two sentences to write. Next, we underlined each word with red crayon and highlighted every vowel.  Then we counted the words, vowels, letters and sentences.
Student example
It was a hot day!
We wrote three sentences about the picture.  We underlined 15 words, highlighted 18 vowels, drew circles around the word - was, triangles around the word - the, rectangles around the word -hot  We also put a happy face above every three letter word.
Student example
Brainstormed Adjectives
Brainstormed Verbs
Modeled example using an adjective and a verb voted on by the students
Student example
More fun with adjectives!