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And Then There Were 4…

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I’ve taken the past couple of weeks off from homeschooling and other activities to get adjusted to having four little blessings.  It’s so funny…as a young married, I always looked at moms who had 3 or more children and thought they were crazy.  Certainly, I’d never do that.  Two children would be enough for me!  If life has taught me…
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FREE Comprehension Graphic Organizer

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Comprehension is a HUGE component of reading.  I would go so far as to say if your child is not comprehending what she is reading, she’s not really reading; just “barking” words. To say it simply: READING=THINKING. In order to get the students I tutored to think about what they had read, I put together this graphic organizer.  It’s called C is…
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FREE Shamrock Sorting with Digraphs SH and CH

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I just whipped up this SH & CH sorting printable this afternoon and thought I’d share. Directions and answers are on the download. It’s a St. Patrick’s Day themed sorting activity between the digraphs SH and CH. Students look at each picture, say the picture name aloud, and match it to either the SH or CH shamrocks.   More Digraph Resources: SH Digraph…
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Updating NJoy’s Picture Wall

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Since this summer, I have used the letters already up in our playroom to post pictures that go along with each letter that NJoy has studied.  You can read more about how I did this here. Around Christmas time, he began getting very curious about how certain letters spelled certain words.  Since then, he has begun spelling some words on…
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FREE & GREEN Printables

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St. Patty’s day will soon be here, so I thought I’d take a day to post some printables with a green theme! The first two printables are very similar to the My Yellow Book Njoy did in our letter Y post and the What is Yellow? emergent reader. My Green Book Designed even for the young “reader” (ages 2-3); child colors/paints the pictures and mama or teacher reads…
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