Snowman Letter Finds and Mix-Ups

I created a set of snowman Letter Find and Letter Mix-Up activities to help our littlest literacy learners match and identify their upper and lower case letters.  The download includes snowmen with upper or lower case letters listed in alphabetical order on the Letter Find pages.  The letters are all mixed-up on the Letter Mix-Up pages.

These are just like the turkey and fall versions!

Click on the pic for the shop of your choice!

Thank you!

Word Ladders-Blending Practice

Back in June and July, I created some Word Ladders.  Word Ladders are a fun way for your students to blend sounds to read words as the initial, final, or medial letter is changed.  If did not follow my blog back then or are not sure what how they work, feel free to click here to see what I mean.

Since then, I have had a few requests to create more.  So I did!!

I created two additional sets and uploaded them to both of my shops (click on the picture of your choice):

Word Ladders-2

Word Ladders-Digraphs:

Thank you!

Snowman Letter Identification

I had a wonderful follower contact me to see if I would continue to make letter identification activities for each season.  Like her students, my students will also need practice and reinforcement with their letters and sounds throughout the year, so I am more than happy to!

So to celebrate the upcoming winter months, I created a snowman version of my letter identification-matching activities to help our littlest learners match and identify their upper and lower case letters.  (This is very similar to my Pumpkin Letter Matching-Identification and Monster Match activities.)  The download includes upper case and lower case letter cards with cute little snowmen on them.  There are also two student worksheets which list the entire alphabet (either in upper or lower case form) for students to match and color.  I also provided some suggestions for use.

You can find this set of activities in both of my shops.  Please click on the pictures below to access the download:

~ Enjoy!

Fry Sight Word and Letter Tickets-FREEBIE

Back in June I posted about a fabulous blog 

authored by Laura Starnes called, 

Since she was creating a movie/Hollywood theme in her classroom she created Admit One tickets by writing letters and sight words on them.  How genius is that?

Because my district follows the Fry Instant Sight Words I created my own tickets just like hers listing the 1st 100 Fry Words.  I also created tickets listing upper and lower case letters of the alphabet separately.  As the year progresses and someday when I am not still sick (although I am beginning to think that day will never come) I hope to add the next 200 Fry Words.  Would anyone else find them useful?

Both myself and the incredible reading teacher next door to me  thank Laura for this idea because we have been using these tickets as we bring our small groups to our rooms.  

My creative colleague came up with a clever way for the students to select their tickets each day of the week:

Monday, Mondays (one ticket)

Two for Tuesday

Wacky Wednesday (they take as many as they want.)

Three for Thursday

Four for Friday

(Aren't I lucky to work with such a creative woman?)

If you would like to download the tickets listing both the upper and lower case letters together, you can go to Kinder Kraziness. You can also access her sight word tickets through this same click.  Her sight word tickets are great because they also list the color words.

If you would like to download the tickets I created with the upper and lower case letters listed separately on each ticket, click on the picture below:

If you would like to download the tickets I created with the 1st 100 Fry words, click on the picture below:

BTW...just in case you are wondering, I contacted Laura to make sure she was okay with me creating and sharing materials so similar to hers and she was all for it!  In the spirit of what I think blogging is all about (to share ideas and materials with teachers around the world), she replied with, "I'm sure others might be looking for additional words as well!"  So if you are interested in downloading and using any of these tickets, show us both some love by leaving a comment here and also popping over to her blog to thank her for sharing such a creative way to practice these necessary early literacy skills!


Enjoy!

Favorite Thanksgiving Books With FREEBIES

I am linking up with two linky parties, sharing my Favorite Thanksgiving Book over with Tamara on TBA and also with Learning With Mrs. Parker.

I actually have two favorite Thanksgiving books with FREE printables to go along with them.  

Both of the books I love have a turkey who is scared to death of being eaten for Thanksgiving.  They both have great humor and the kids love them.


The first one is Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano

After reading this book, I will have my kinders and first graders identify their favorite part. They will draw a picture and then write about it.  There are two documents, one with the words "I like when" and one without words.  Both have the Handwriting Without Tears Lines.

The second one is A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting

I wrote the main story events on little sentence strips.  After reading this book, I would have my second graders read through the sentence strips and place them in the correct sequence to practice retelling the story.  Once done, they would read the "story" back to me.

Enjoy!!

Gobble, Gobble! FREE Gameboard

Hi everyone!

I just uploaded a Thanksgiving themed gameboard.  

I couldn't decide if I liked the orange background or not, so I went ahead and saved (and also uploaded) both of them.  

Click on either picture below to access both

This gameboard can be used to practice any type of skill you are working on!  My students will use this to practice their letter identification and various phonemic awareness skills!

What will you use the gameboard for?

Thank you!

Turkey Letter Finds and Mix-Ups

Gobble, Gobble!

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I created a set of turkey Letter Find and Letter Mix-Up activities to help our littlest learners match and identify their upper and lower case letters.  The download includes turkeys with either upper or lower case letters listed in alphabetical order on the Letter Find Pages and also with the letters mixed-up on the Letter Mix-Up pages.

These are just like my Fall Letter Finds and Mix-Ups!

Because my students know just a few letters, I have yet to use the Letter Mix-Up pages with them.  Instead, we have been using the Letter Find pages as an alphabet chart to learn how to sing/recite the alphabet, pausing at the end of each row.  This is helping them match the letter name to the letter along with developing one-to-one correspondence.  When finding certain letters I name, if they do not know it, they are learning to start at the beginning and recite the alphabet until they find it.  This is a strategy they can use in small-group with me and also in their classroom when they look at the alphabet displayed.

Monster Match Winners

Did everyone have a good time hunting for my little monsters?  I hope so!!  Thank you for all of your kind comments.  I had a great time reading through them and look forward to some new blogs to check out!!

Here is the post you were hunting for:

But, if you left a comment elsewhere (on another post, through email, Facebook, etc...), I am still sending you my Monster Match activity.  Please check your inbox!

If you missed the fun, you can purchase my Monster Match activity by clicking on the picture below!!

Also, I am missing one address for Amy from The Resource(ful) Room, once I get it I will send you the activity.

Thanks so much and enjoy your monsters and slime everyone!!

Want to have some fun for a free Letter ID Activity?

(I am reposting this with some HINTS on the bottom!!)


Early last week I created a "secret" post for my Facebook friends, sharing a FREE letter identification activity shown below, called Monster Match (very similar to my Pumpkin Letter Identification).

I changed the post a little, but if you can find that post on my blog and leave me a comment there with your email address,  I will send you the Monster Match activity for FREE!

You have until midnight tomorrow EST (Monday, October 17th) to find that post and leave me your comment!


Have fun and Happy SPOOKY MONSTER Hunting!!


Hints:  It is NOT a post in October or September and does NOT already provide an activity for free (Mr. Munch).   
You will know when you find it!


=  Have fun!  =

Beginning Sound Sort-M, B, H FREEBIE

Hi there!

Just wanted to share a simple beginning sound sort I created to provide my little ones some independent practice with the consonants "M", "B", and "H".

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

I love hearing from all of you, but feel like my comments have really decreased lately.  I miss you!  Please let me know how things are going with and that you are still with me =

Enjoy!