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LEGO Handwriting Mats – Read, Build, and Write

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Does your child think that the lines on the handwriting paper are just suggestions, like my Kindergartner? Then, these DUPLO and LEGO brick Handwriting Mats {FREE download at the end of this post} might just do the trick! We’ve played around with our LEGO letters a bit this year to understand that some letters are tall while other letters are short;…
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DUPLO Rhyming Word Matching

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Rhyming is one of the first pre-reading skills we can model with young children. And it’s fun to do. Songs and rhyming books are a must with young kids. So are rhyming games, like you can find in our Roll-a-Rhyme Activity. NSis {3 years old} loves to rhyme. So, we played a little rhyming word matching this week that I just…
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Learning the Alphabet: FREE Letter Q Printable Pack

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Today, we’re sharing our FREE Letter Q Printable Pack from Learning the Alphabet. If you’re new to Learning the Alphabet, you can read more about it plus see many of the activities in action in our introductory post. You can also find all our FREE printable packs from Learning the Alphabet here as well as see all our Letter of…
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Word Family Matching Game

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This year, MBug {4 years old} and I are moving slowly through Reading the Alphabet. Some new family dynamics have made it difficult for me to go any faster and that’s okay. We just work it in when we can. She still loves to “do school” and had so much fun with this word family matching game that we played…
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Color the Short Vowel Sound

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MBug {age 4} has taken an interest in listening for the middle sound in words, thanks to our Short Vowel Clip Cards. And seeing that the girl is quite addicted to coloring {the reason for our color by letter packs and our Color & Read emergent readers}, I decided to make her some Color the Short Vowel Sound coloring pages. *This post…
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