Look and see!

This week we will add the words "look" and "see" to the word wall. I made this activity...based on so many of those "butter it" ideas on Pinterest.

I added the counting component...the children have to count how many times they "buttered" each word and write the number. I used clip art from  Month by Month Clip Art published by Scholastic. I ordered it with bonus points last year and love it!

Word Family and Sight Word Books

Hello! I thought I'd share our finished word family and sight word book with you today.  We do a page in our word family book as we complete each short vowel study. I assemble the book ahead of time and the students just open to the correct page to add the word families.

I also use the sight word pages from this book by Scholastic...

 I save the pages and the students assemble them into a sight word book at the end of the year.

I like putting these pages in a book when we are done because it seems to give them more meaning...rather than sending them home one at a time as we finish them. This way, the children can read through the poems and practice all of the sight words. Thanks for checking in on my little corner of the kindergarten world!

Egg sight word activity

Hi there! We are still on spring break this week, but I did go into my classroom to set up a few things for April. It's always fun to get out new activities and change things over to the new month. We are down to 7 weeks once we get back! Unbelievable! Anyway...there are a BUNCH of cute and wonderful plastic egg ideas floating around out there right now. I'd like to share my version...I've done this one a few years.

I printed out several word wall words and have them "scrambled" up inside the egg. There is a word box on the response sheet to help children try to figure out the word, if they need it. This set is just word wall words. I am also working on a set using CVC words.

Click on the picture if you'd like a copy of the recording sheet. Thanks for checking in on my little corner of the kindergarten world! Have a great day!

Sign Language Sight Words

Are you familiar with this font?

It's called Gallaudet and it is the letters of the alphabet in sign language. I printed out sight word cards with this font and had the children use a large sign language poster to help them figure out the word. Just another fun way to practice words! I let them do this with a partner.

They could also use the process of elimination...if the first two letters of the word were "th" they would know the word was "the" because that's the only word wall word that starts with those two letters. : )
Thanks for checking in and have a great day!

Mitten Glyph

Hello! As promised, I have a picture of the mitten glyph we did this past week. I had a parent volunteer come in and she did this with the children. It's pretty simple; I photocopied  a mitten on green and blue paper.

Here are the questions they answered for the glyph:

We practiced sight words with a roll and color game. I printed a snowman with sight words in each space (not my original idea!!) and the children had to read the word they rolled and color in the correct space. They did this with partners.

Did you know Kohls has these???

Have a great day! Thanks for checking today!

Thank You and Snowflake Writing...

Hello! I hope everyone who is back at school this week is having a good one! It can always be a little challenging to get back into the swing of things after Christmas break! Before I tell you about our SNOWFLAKE writing center, I want to say a big thank you to everyone who started following my blog! I realize there are so many great teaching blogs out there...I am grateful to everyone who checks in just to see what's happening in my little corner of the kindergarten world. : ) My goal has been to post and share ideas that work for me, or share other great ideas/links I see online. I do not have a TpT store or sell items, but hopefully you still can find something here you can use!! We are all in this together and I believe the more we share and learn from each other, the more we can help our kids. Anyway...thanks again!

Onto our writing center...I die cut the word SNOWFLAKE and made an activity sheet for the children to write all of the words they could make out of the letters. When I introduced this activity, some of them immediately said, "I see 'no!' They also came up with "we, so, snow, and of."  Here's a picture of the center:

I like the big letters because they can move them around and manipulate them to come up with words. I also set up a sight word play dough center. There are quite a few pics of centers like this on Pinterest. Here is my version:

I put letter cookie cutters in the basket with the activity sheet and a set of colored pencils for them to record the words they made. I also hung up two word lists for them to use. They are not limited to these words, but it is helpful for those who need it.

They can use the cookie cutters to cut out the words, or just stamp them into the play dough.  Thanks for checking in and have a great evening!