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Posted on January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

Snowflake Decoding Practice for Short Vowel Word Activities

These letter cards are used daily for the first few minutes of reading instruction in January and February. Then, I print, laminate, and cut each card out for prep. I have used similar cards since August so that children will understand the activity by January. This month, we added blends to build CVC words and …

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Posted on June 6, 2022

Word Family Activities and Games

We have been working on learning CVC and word families this week. I tried coming up with some simple, fun games my kids can play independently to practice and feel more confident. I'll be expanding the list of resources we have been using, but here are the word family activities and games we loved this …

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Posted on May 16, 2022May 16, 2022

Read Aloud with What If You Had Animal Ears!? 

Today's book is called What If You Had Animal Ears!? Written by Sandra Markle and illustrated by Howard McWilliam.  I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but my kids were hooked on the image of a girl with koala ears and knew it would be a good book choice for today.  We …

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Posted on January 28, 2022January 28, 2022

Ravi’s Roar Book Activities

We loved reading Ravi’s Roar by Tom Percival! My daughter told me she wants to grab this book the next time she gets upset to re-read it. And the next day, my son started screaming and crying, and she looked at me, threw up her arms, and said, “Ok, I’m getting the book.” She explained …

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Posted on January 27, 2022February 7, 2022

CVC Word Building Activity- Science of Reading Center

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My child is ready to start learning CVC words. So I put this word-building activity together to keep reading engaging, fun, and hopefully effective.I started learning about the Science of Reading recently, and I love how it has shifted my own "best practices" that I used to use in the classroom and gave me ideas …

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Posted on January 25, 2022January 25, 2022

Polar Bear Arctic Sensory Activities 

Learning through play was my goal when my children and I put together these polar bear Arctic sensory activities. Last year I used pillowcases and blue play dough and let the kids have fun building the arctic on top of the craft table. This year they wanted to expand the idea using old bedsheets, gems, …

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