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Secret Sight Word Game

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I’ve had a lot of new faces joining This Reading Mama lately.  Welcome!  I’m so glad you’re here! This is week three of the simple sight word games I’m posting each Monday for the summer.  (Click on the image above or here for weeks 1 and 2.) As a classroom teacher and now as a homeschooling mama, I am always…
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Saturday's Savorings: Happy Father's Day!

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My sweet hubby won’t be with us this Father’s Day.  He has a wonderful reason to be gone.  He goes with the high school kids at our church on a missions trip.  He’s done so for the last few years (with the exception of the year MBug was born).  So, we got to work early this year and cranked out…
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A Simple and Active Dice Game for Preschoolers

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I’ve been working with NJoy (age 3.5) for some time now, trying to help him understand that the dot patterns on a die don’t change. Although he’s had multiple and meaningful exposure with dice games, like our grid games, he still feels the need to count the dots on the dice each time he rolls. I was trying to think of a…
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Making Complete Sentences with Roll a Sentence (FREE Printable Included)

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Working on complete sentences? Try this fun Roll a Sentence activity with free printables included! *The free printable pack can be found towards the END of this post! ALuv {currently end of Kindergarten} and I have been working just a bit on making complete sentences {requiring only a subject and predicate}. We talked about making complete sentences; that they need…
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Charlotte’s Web Book Club: Second Meeting

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Last week, we met for our second Charlotte’s Web book club.  Before going, we were to have read Chapters 1-4. Our goal was not only to have the kids listen to the chapters, but to do some writing.  Some of us did copy work.  I chose to do writing prompts with ALuv.  Some of my prompts came from/were adapted from…
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