Students can create their own no-prep sight word books to reinforce reading and writing the words they are learning. Teaching Sight Words This past year, I learned about the Heart Word method for teaching sight words. For students to automatically start reading them, I explicitly teach my students how to read them. This way, they …
Sight Word Activities: Find some play-based sight word activities for your kindergarten classroom. These literacy center ideas are perfect for hands-on learning, and reinforcing sight word recognition and spelling. My kindergarten class uses a play-based model of learning. This means that my students are playing and engaged while they work. I am always looking for …
Spring does not seem to want to come this year. The warm weather teased us last month, but now it has been cold and grey for the past few weeks. You wouldn’t know it by looking at our classroom though! We have had some really fun spring-themed activities and centers. Take a peek at what …
Sight Word Activities: reinforce sight word recognition and spelling with these low-prep activities. Practice sight words in kindergarten with these hands-on centers. Working on sight words is so important for kindergarten. Students need to be able to recognize and write them to become good readers and writers. Since it so important to work on them, …
St-Patrick’s Day Activity: Literacy center to reinforce sight word recognition and spelling. A hands-on activity for st-patrick’s day fun! I am constantly trying to reinforce and practice sight words with my students. It can get boring doing the same activities, so I came up with a series of building with sight words activity packs. Students …
This past week we have been learning about community helpers, and our students were very excited with anything to do with construction workers. We also started with some Saint-Patrick’s Day activities. Here is a look back on some of the things we did: What Can You Build? Literacy Center We wanted to get our students …
This week was a short one- Monday was a holiday! So I am feeling refreshed and loving the 4 day work week! Family Frames These cute house frames were made for our families for Family Day. I pre-made the popsicle stick houses by hot gluing them together. Each student painted their house, then drew a …
What a bananas week this has been. We ended off last week on the 100th day of school, there was Valentine’s Day this week, and Chinese New Year, and we had our Elective Day today (students picked a fun activity to do inside or outside the school). It was exhausting but so fun, we had …
There have been so many fun things happening in our classroom lately. Our students have been so creative and we have been having a great time learning and playing in kindergarten! Here are a few things that we have been up to: Arctic Small World Play Center Our students have loved playing in our small …
As we continued to learn about snowflakes and winter in general (check our last week’s post for more ideas), we did some fun activities this week around the same theme. Scroll all the way to the end to find a free printable for a class book based on The Mitten! Snowflake Invitation to Create After …
