Upper Case Letter Identification Freebie

Here is a fun activity for your students to independently practice their upper case letter identification and alphabetical order.

The students color a path, one square at a time, from A to Z.  As they color, the following box must be touching the last colored box.  I remind my students that if they get stuck, to head back to the beginning of the alphabet and recite the ABC's as they point to each letter.

This download includes two different versions.  In the first version, the students start at the snowflake and create a path to the snowman.  This path moves from top to bottom.  In the second version, students begin at the the bottom with a penguin and creates a path moving toward the top, to reach an igloo.

Hope you and your students enjoy!

Snowman Letters and Sounds

At school, we just completed our AIMSweb Benchmarking.  
Most of the kiddos had a great deal of difficulty with Letter Sound Fluency (LSF).  If you are unfamiliar with AIMSweb, this is where the student is presented with a random series of upper and lower case letters and they need to produce as many sounds as they can in 1 minute.  

When I assessed them with my Letter-Sound Assessment to see exactly what letters and sounds they knew, I found that many of them simply didn't know many letter-sound correspondences.  So they really need a boost in this area.

One game that I like to play with my kiddos is the, 
"Hide/Find the ____" game.  
This game has been around for years and years, but I just love how you can make simple changes and the kids continue to love it each and every time they play it.

I didn't have any fun alphabet cards to use for the winter season (well, none that wasn't currently part of an activity I would be using), so I made these Snowman Alphabet cards to place into a pocket chart and play, "Hide the Penguin" to reinforce letters and sounds.

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How do I play, Hide the Penguin?

Well, do you see that little penguin above?

He is the little guy who I hide behind the cards.

I simply place the letters I want to reinforce  into my pocket chart, as seen below (I play this game with sight words too).

  I then hide the little penguin behind one of the cards.

The kiddos take turns naming a letter and/or producing a sound trying to find the penguin!

Have you played this game before?  Do your kids like it as much as mine?

If you are interested in my Letter-Sound Assessment, you can find it in both of my shops!

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Updated Snowman Letter Identification-LiPS

Hello there!

Completely unrelated to teaching, I wanted to share some of my favorite pictures from the past few weeks of my little ladies.  

Paige was an angel in her school Christmas play and she lost her first tooth (she pulled it out all by herself).  She has been loving the snow that has been falling for the last few days and is excited to celebrate her birthday just next week.  Saydie is also enjoying the snow and the Christmas season!  
She LOVES to open presents, too!

Do any of you have to complete an Evidence Binder?  In case you have no idea what I am talking about, it is now part of New York State's new teacher evaluation plan.  Since the beginning of the school year I have been shoving my "evidence" into the front of my binder.  I really need to sit down to sort through and organize what has been collected so far.  

I added some fun game cards to my Snowman Letter Identification!

Now in addition to using the letter cards with the alphabet charts, you can also use the letter cards with the new game cards to play a fun card game to reinforce letters and sounds.

You can find my Snowman Letter Identification in both of my shops, just click on one of the links below:

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Last, but not least, before break I was able to attend a one-day training for the Lindamood-Bell Phoneme Sequencing program called LiPS.  Do any of you currently use the program?  I would like to start incorporating it into my instruction with some of my kinderkids who are REALLY struggling with letter identification, but would love some feedback from real teachers who are using it!  What are your thoughts?

Sight Word Find (Search) Update

Just wanted to let everyone know that I updated my 

Let it Snow Sight Word Find 

to include a kindergarten version as well as the first grade.

I kept the pictures the same and just changed the words.

I also changed the name from 

Sight Word Search 

to

Sight Word Find. 

I thought Sight Word Search sounded too much like a word search...you know where they circle the words?  It was bugging me and I needed to change it!  LOL!

Click on the picture below!

This Sight Word Find addresses the following Common Core Learning Standard:

K.RS.FS.3c:  Read common high-frequency words by sight.

~ Enjoy!

Valentine's Day ABC Path FREEBIE

Here is a fun way to practice upper and lower case letter identification with a Valentine's Day twist!

Students must color a path in ABC order from heart to heart.

I included both an upper and lower case version!

If you missed my Winter ABC Path, you can find it here:

Love Bug Letter Identification

I just LOVE my newest product!  Not only because it is geared toward Valentine's Day, the day to celebrate love, but because it is a LOVE BUG theme.  Do you have a love bug of your own?  My daughter loves to cuddle and snuggle, so I have always called her my little love bug!!

Here is what is included in this letter identification pack:

-  Upper and lower case letter cards with cute little love bugs!  (I made these smaller than I have in previous packs.  I thought I would try to fit more on one page to save paper and possibly some ink.)

-  Upper  and lower case letter matching worksheets with hearts.
-  Upper and lower case Letter Mix-Ups.  This is where all of the letters in the alphabet are listed in random order all over the page on other cute love bugs.  (This is a new inclusion to the pack, previously I have separated them.)

Click on the picture blow for the shop of your choice!

Oh!  I almost forgot to mention that I used my own graphics in the pack too!  No, I didn't create all of the cute little love bugs.  Those were all created by the My Cute Graphics.  Instead, I created the hearts shown on the worksheets for the students to color in.  

~ Enjoy!

Reindeer Food, Santa Letter FREEBIE links!

I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Pinterest!  Don't you?  

After doing a quick and simple search, I found the cutest little FREE printables on a blog called, Crafty Carnival.  

(I can't wait to have some time to look through her posts!)

My little one and I made 30 servings of reindeer food (for my other little ones at school) using this cute little bag topper she has posted!

 

Within the same post there is also a "Dear Santa" letter for the kids to write their "short" list.  I plan on using this with my kindies tomorrow.  They are just bubbling over with excitement!

Picture courtesy of Crafty Carnival

Well, it is already Wednesday evening!  This week seems to be going by slow, but at least I am surviving!  Two more FULL days!  I think I can...I think I can...  

(Right?)

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On the 15th Day SANTA FREEBIE

Ho, Ho, Ho!


Well, it is Thursday and the week is almost over!  How many of you have a full week of school next week?  I do!  The kiddos are quite anxious and are ready for a break.  I don't know about you, but I sure am too!  

And please don't get me wrong, I love my job and all of my little ones, but I am really looking forward to a magical Christmas with my 3 year-old and spending time with family and friends! 
(I still can't believe Christmas is less than 2 weeks away!)

Today I am excited to celebrate the 15th day of Christmas with you for 

My gift to you today is an upper and lower case alphabet board with Santa himself!

I hope you enjoy!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Tree Letter Identification

O' Christmas Tree, O' Christmas Tree
How lovely are your letters...

For those of you who are enjoying the letter identification activities I have been creating, I just uploaded another one using Christmas trees and Christmas lights!

~ Enjoy!!

Gingerbread Letter Identification

I just created a new letter matching, recognition, and/or identification activity for you with a gingerbread theme! 

There are both colored and black and white sets of upper and lower case letter cards with a little gingerbread men.  Along with the cards you will find two separate worksheets with the alphabet written in either upper or lower case form on gingerbread houses.  You can use these worksheets along with the cards for students to match and identify their letters.  Since the entire alphabet is written on one page, these worksheets could also be used as alphabet boards.  Some suggestions for use are also included.

Enjoy!

Christmas Letter Identification

As requested, I just created a new letter matching, recognition, and/or identification activity for you with a Christmas theme!  

This download includes sets of upper and lower case letter cards with a cute little bear, penguin, reindeer and Santa, each holding a present.  Along with the cards you will find two separate worksheets, with suggestions for use.

Don't forget, I also have Snowman, Pumpkin, and Monster versions of this activity!

By the way, I love receiving your requests!  Keep them coming!

Thank you!!

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!

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!