Lucky Letter Literacy Pack UPDATED!

In getting ready for St. Patrick's Day, I updated my Lucky Letters Literacy Pack! 

This pack includes upper and lower case versions of:

Lucky Letter Finds (alphabet charts)

Lucky Letter Mix-Ups (letters are mixed up)

Color the Lucky Letters ABC Paths

Write the Lucky Letters

It also includes worksheets for the students to circle the

beginning, ending, and now middle sounds of the words pictured.

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I realized that some of the original pictures did not align with the Common Core Learning Standards (a few pictures ended with "l" or "r"), so I went ahead and changed them.  

Here are some of the Kindergarten Common Core Learning Standards that can be addressed when using the Lucky Letters Literacy Pack:

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 (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.* (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
RF.K.3a- Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
RF.K.3b- Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major
vowels.
LS.K.1a- Print many upper- and lowercase letters.

Write the Missing Letter

Some of my students need some additional practice reciting the alphabet and writing their letters fluently.  So I just combined the two activities to have them practice doing both!

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We have vacation next week!  What about you? 

CVC Word Building with Pictures

My students have been working hard to isolate the beginning and ending sounds in words.  Although they are not quite yet in the stage of blending all of the sounds together to read the words, I created the following activity to help reinforce the beginning and ending sounds.  They will select a picture, use letter tiles to build the word, and then write the word.

~ To be a little festive, I gave it a little Valentine's Day spin by going to the good old Dollar Tree where I bought the little heart boxes below and then numbered them 1-8.  
~ I then placed one of the CVC picture cards in each box.
~ I will give the students the letter tiles, word building boxes, and a worksheet.
~ The students will select a box, use the letter tiles to build the word in thew Elkonin-like word building boxes, and then write the word in the corresponding numbered heart on the worksheet.
~ Once the words are written, together we will practice stretching out the sounds with our hands to read the words.

Because we are focusing mostly on  identifying building and identifying words by confirming the beginning and ending sounds, I have separated the vowels "a" and "i" into two separate activities.  If your students are ready, you could easily combine the materials for the two vowels.

Also, although I am doing this for Valentine's Day, this activity could be done at any point with any type of plastic box, small basket, bucket, etc...  I also included a worksheet that has a rectangular border around the three boxes for the students to write in (instead of the heart border).

Click on the shop of choice below!

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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.2b:  Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).

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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