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Learning to Spell Using Patterns Within Words {FREE Printable Included!}

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I’m sure meltdowns never happen at your house or in your classroom because they never happen here {roll eyes}. Earlier this week, we had a pretty big one over the spelling of the word rain. Yes, rain. My dear, sweet ALuv {2nd grade} kept trying to spell rain like RANE. I assured him that while he had indeed spelled the…
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FREE Thanksgiving PreK/K Pack {Updated and Expanded}

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Over the last week, I’ve been working to update and expand my Thanksgiving Pack. And today, it’s finished! 🙂 You will find the link to the FREE downloads at the end of this post. I have updated a few of the activities/clip art and expanded this pack by adding another emergent reader {now, there are two included} and some more…
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FREE Cutting Practice Pack {Thanksgiving Cut it Out!}

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I’m so excited to share something new with you…Cut it Out! Packs. This was our first pack, but we have more! Check out all our FREE Cutting Practice Packs HERE. *This post contains affiliate links. MBug {currently 3 years old} LOVES to cut. She’s been especially excited about cutting since I bought her some spring scissors of her very own last…
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FREE Thanksgiving Word Bump: Works With Any Spelling List!

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You may be familiar with the math game called Bump! You may have even seen The Measured Mom’s very cool adaptation for sight words. Well, it was the combination of those two activities that gave me the idea for Word Bump, the writing game that works with any spelling list! (View more seasonal Word Bump! game links at the end…
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Flip a Word: A Short Vowel Game to Help Readers Blend Words {FREE}

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Letter Sound Pronunciation Can Make it Difficult to Blend Words Some beginning readers struggle to blends words together as they read. There are many reasons for this. Just one reason is that letter sounds can be distorted when we say them. Take for instance the sound of b. Many of us make it sound like this: /buh/. When we ask…
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