Zippin Down the Freebie Trail

I am so excited to be part of the FREEBIE trail!
I hope you have found some great activities to add to your toolbox!

I would like to share a fun game called
The Bunny Trail

This game can be used to reinforce so many different skills.  I use it to reinforce fluency with letters, sounds, and sight words.

To play, write whatever needs to be reinforced on the included flash cards and also in the empty boxes on The Bunny Trail game board.  Mix up the cards and have the child read through each card until they get to the first target on the trail.  You then continue the same routine until the bunny gets to the end of the trail!
Enjoy!!

Now, click on the egg below to zip on down to our next stop and see
Learn With Me in Grade Three

And if you are just starting with us, click on the egg below to head to beginning of the trail!

 

Bunnies and Chicks Early Literacy

I just put together a set of activities to practice some early literacy skills.  It has adorable bunnies and cute little chicks to help practice letter identification, letter-sound correspondences, letter writing, and isolating beginning and ending sounds!

Here is what I included:

Bunny Letter Finds and Bunny Letter Mix-Ups: to practice letter identification.

Write the Missing/All Bunny Letters (upper and lower):  to practice writing their upper and lower case letters in ABC order.

Chick Beginning/Ending Sounds:  to practice identifying the letter that makes the sound at the beginning of the word, then at the end of the word.  They will then write the letters heard at the beginning and end of the word.

These activities address the following Common Core Learning Standards:

~  RF.K.1d:  Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

~  RF.K.2d:  Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds(phonemes) in three phoneme (CVC) words. 

~  RF.K.3a:  Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant.
~ L.K.1a:  Print many upper- and lowercase letters.
~  L.k.2c:  Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).

Click on a link below to learn more:

Teachers Notebook or Teachers Pay Teachers 

Hoppy Easter Everyone!

Did everyone have a good Easter?  We had lots of fun here in our household.  Last night we planted our magical jellybean and left carrots for the Easter Bunny.

Overnight the magical jellybean grew into a pinwheel and the Easter Bunny ate his carrots and left some goodies.  My daughter was was amazed that a pinwheel grew from the jellybean she planted!

It was beautiful and warm outside, so after breakfast we hunted for eggs.

P had a hard time opening her eggs with her hands, so she improvised by sitting on them to crack them open.  It was hysterical!  Here is what she found inside her eggs.  Of course we took some time to practice naming her letters and producing their corresponding sounds!

Well that was only part of our morning.  I could go on and on, but I don't want to bore you any further  I just wanted to wish you all a Hippity Hoppity Easter!!  It was a wonderful day to sum up my break!

Also, I found the magical jellybean idea on a fabulous blog that you can find here.  This will definitely become Easter tradition in our household!  Do you have a fun Easter tradition that you do with your family?

~ Mrs. Mc

What's up...

Even though the weather has been less than desirable with the cold and rain, I am enjoying my week off!  I have been trying to soak up every ounce of my princess as possible!!

Because we have been stuck inside more than I would like, we have had the opportunity to do some crafts in preparation of Easter.

These crafts are from some of my favoirte blogs that you should check out if you haven't already.  You can find the links here:

Paper Easter Egg Hunt

Cardboard Bunnies and Lamb

Handprint Chick

She has also been practicing identifying her lower case letters in different ways, including the Barrel of Monkeys activity I posted about here.

Although I am trying to not think about school, it is pretty much impossible!  I have found some great activities on your blogs that I have printed and cannot wait to put to use.  I have also been busy creating a game to play with my 3rd graders to help prepare them for certain areas of the NYS ELA Assessment, which they will be taking one week after we return from break.

Off to go color some eggs!!

~ Mrs. Mc

SomeBUNNY Loves You Craft

My lil’ one came down with a cold over the weekend, so I tried to lift her spirits by keeping her busy with a little Easter bunny craft. We bought this kit at Target for $5 (it came with about 8 foam eggs, lots of pre-cut foam stickers, sequins, glitter glue, etc…).

We used her hand to make the bunny with paint.  I then added the face, words, and some ribbon to the ears.  She finished it up by adding the stickers and sequins around the egg. (Don’t mind the snowman shirt and the tutu, she insists on dressing herself nowadays and this was only her fourth outfit for the day.)

Now we just need to get them all in the mail to brighten the days of some of our family!

~ Mrs. Mc