Halloween!

Well this school year has made an interesting twist. I have been put on bed rest, at least for this week. I am 31 weeks along and I have been having contractions for a week. I was planning on getting started on all of my sub plans for while I am out, however now a match has been lit under me to do lessons from now until the end of my planned maternity leave. (My leave is scheduled to start mid Dec. and end in Feb.) Halloween is in a couple of weeks however my kids are learning about pumpkins this week. I made a group activity of matching shapes on pumpkins. I just made up some simple cards. I play this during group time and I give each child a card and tell them to find their partner with the matching card. Once everyone has found their partner/match I have each group tell me what shape they have. This helps to not put one child in the spotlight but they can work together.
Maybe in the next few days I will be putting up different activities. They maybe all sorts of different themes with the time frame I am writing for.

You can download the jpg here or go to my tpt store to get it for free :)

Its mail time!

I went to work with a kiddo in their home recently and the parents asked me to work on the skill of learning her address that day. I did some activities that day with what I had and then went home and made this for the next time that I went to their house. It is just an address packet with a place for their information and blank envelopes for them to use. One of the pages also has a list of addresses for the children to practice sending pretend letter to... however some of the addresses will get you a response. (Mickey's, Cinderella's, Kermit's Judy Blume's, and Sesame Street's) I laminated the address page and the envelopes and they are at the writing center for the children to practice with.

This packet is available on my tpt site for free.

Baking Word Families

I made this activity for a great little kiddo that I get the privilege to work with one on one. We are working on word families as an aspect of learning words. She loves pretending to cook so I thought the theme of baking cookies fit with that. I figured I would share with the internet words because sharing is a nice things to do ans who wouldn't want to share a cookie. They are $1 on tpt (because I used clipart I purchased). If you want any other word families let me know and I can add it to the pack I am selling on tpt. The current word families are:
at,  ail, am, an, eat, eep, ell, ice, ay, ing, in, ip, it, oat, og, oil, ool, op, ot, uck, ug, unk

Each word family has a cookie tray page and four cookies to be matched to the correct tray.



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clip-art from: scapindoodles.com

Compound words

I loved teaching compound words to my 2nd graders when I was student teaching. The school that I was at followed the Comprehensive Literacy Model, so we would a mini lesson with the class and then have the children do a guided assignment that worked on the skill. This was one of the guided assessments that the kiddos did for compound words. Before the lesson I cut out the hexagons on page 2 and attached 1 to the center of the hexagon on the first page. (I used small scrap-booking brads to attach them)  The children then spun the center hexagon to make compound words. The kids thought it was a lot of fun and it was nice to do something a little different then a typical worksheet.

I have complied the two pages on tpt for free. teacherspayteachers.com


*I did see an idea like this online someplace one time and that is were the concept came from*