Sight Word Musical Chair Game!

 End the boredom of your kids by playing the musical chair sight word game. Its a low prep game and all you need is few chairs, some paper to write the words on and music. The kinesthetic learners will have a blast with this game as they will get an opportunity to move around while learning. And the best part is that nobody loses as children will get to sit on different chairs with different words, every time the music plays. 

Just play the music and let children move around the chairs. Once the music stops they have to sit on the nearest chair and read the word. Continue till the game holds children's interest.

You can replace sight words with any concept that you want to focus on- numbers, alphabet, blends etc.

 

A quick indoor game for the hot summer days. Play it and make learning fun!

Dinosaur Activities

I didn't expect the dinosaur unit to be such a hit with kids though I knew that it would definitively hit the right cord!

We have been reading a lot of fun books on dinosaurs but our favorite turned out to be "Stomp, Dinosaur, Stomp" by Margaret Mayo.

The book has a lot of cute dinosaur pictures which exposes the children to various dinosaurs.

We used a page from the book to match toy dinosaurs.

We made huge dinosaur feet. I got the template from HERE.

Since the kids are learning sight words, I decided to add a sight word activity to the dinosaur theme.

I cut few colored pipe cleaners(pretend dinosaur bones) and put them in dough. The kids had to search for dinosaur bones and match the colored bones to the correct sight word(the sight words were of the same colors as the pipe cleaners).

And math couldn't be left behind, so I found a fun addition activity from 3 dinosaurs.com to add to our unit.

We also did a lot of craft and writing activities, which I would be sharing soon.

Literacy Center- Teaching Sght Words

Centers are such an effective way to get students to learn independently and in small groups. I love making resources to use in the literacy centers. It empowers my kids and gives them a sense of accomplishment and they tend to take ownership of their own learning.

So this activity was born keeping in mind the above points. You may have seen versions of this game online but it took me a while to give it a try. But the moment I made it and put it out for the kids to try, they kinda went ballistic with it. Sight word learning has never been so much fun.

So don't wait and give it a try in your class now, because its completely worth it.

I simply made some fish cuts with sight words written on  them . I use the Dolch word list, so the words are from there. 

I attached a magnet strip at the back of each fish. You can even attach metal paper clips.

Give children a fishing rod and a recording sheet. Let them catch the fish and tick off the sight words on their sheet.

Simple, easy and pure fun!

Grab this game from my TPT STORE.

Happy fishing for sight words!

Board Games

Who loves board games? I do ! and it sure brings back childhood memories. Monopoly, scrabble, snakes and ladders were just a few games that added fun to our evenings and gave us time to bond as a family. But now a days, thanks to all the technical devices, kids don't really understand the meaning of playing with others, taking turns and waiting for their turn. 

So i decided to whip up a quick board game for one of my kids, not only to teach him an academic concept but also some other important skills. And boy oh boy, it did turn out great!

We practiced numbers with this board game but you can work with any concept you like:Alphabets, CVC word families, sight words etc. 

Just print, fill and use.

Grab your copy HERE

CVC Words

Its that time of the school year where my little angels have started to read . They have understood the concept of blending sounds and are making an attempt to read simple sentences using their phonetic and sight word knowledge. As a teacher it is such an incredible feeling to see children read and make sense of what they are reading. To elevate children's interest in reading, i have been doing a lot of fun activities in small groups with them. The most favorite activity is with magnetic letters. Children select a picture and then make words.

I have also made CVC word family tins for them. They use a strip with the word family written on it and  place individual letters to read words.

I also found interesting word family strips from blog.maketaketeach.com

I use a context while reading CVC Words in a large group. I tell children that all the letters are playing on a slide and some are scared to go down alone. So they need to take the help of another letter friend. For instance if it is word family 'it' that we are focusing on, the letter 'i' would need help. So his friend 't' would hold his hand and they would go down the slide together. I prompt children to take out the "it" sound. These letters wait at the bottom of the slide to catch other letter friends. Children instantly say  'kit' when letter 'k' comes down the slide.

It is a super fun way to teach them blending. Even the ones who need help while blending are able to read with this strategy.

After we finish reading on the flannel board, we sing a song to reinforce all the words .

The lyrics are as follows:

The letters /i/ /t/, they always says /it/

just like in the words 'kit' and 'sit'

and 'hit' and 'pit'

and 'lit' and 'bit'

k says/k/, put /k/ before /it/

/kit/ always says  kit

s says/s/ put /s/ before /it/

/sit/ always says sit 

h says/h/ put /h/ before /it/

/hit/ always says hit 

p says/p/ put /p/ before /it/

/pit/ always says pit 

l says/l/ put /l/ before /it/

/lit/ always says lit 

b says/b/ put /b/ before /it/

/bit/ always says bit 

The letters /i/ /t/, they always says /it/

just like in the words 'kit' and 'sit'

and 'hit' and 'pit'

and 'lit' and 'bit'

I have also created a CVC Word pack for my little kiddos 

 

I am using the sheets from my pack to send for home practice. If you would like to purchase it, you can download it from my TPT Store.

CVC-Words

The school year is about to end in India and i want to gear up for the next session. We start the year with introducing alphabets to our little kids and end by reading simple sentences, so i am working on an alphabet pack which would soon be available on my TPT store. I would like to end the post with some free downloadable sheets for CVC words. 

Click on the link below to download them.

CVC-Word-Worksheets