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Fishing for Letters

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I rotate out toys on a weekly basis in our playroom.  It’s an inexpensive way of keeping things fresh.  I got the idea here.  My original idea was that I would rotate things out as a surprise–do it while they were sleeping, but the boys found my “stash” that I thought I had hidden really well.  Now they help me…
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-at Family: 2nd day

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First part of lesson: Resort/rematch -at words and pictures (5-7 minutes) On the 2nd day of working on our -at family, ALuv matched the words and pictures with minimal support from me.  I asked him again how he knew when a word and picture matched, helping him to think again about his strategy.  His answer was usually, “Because this picture…
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Time to Start Word Families!

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Okay, so what do you do if your child knows his letters and most letter sounds?  Word families! A Word Family is a set of words that have the same ending chunk in them like the at family: cat, sat, rat, fat, etc.  Keep it simple at first and only add one letter to the front of –at, so words…
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Spin and Write Templates

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Below are the templates from my post yesterday. Feel free to print them off to use them at home with your child, if (s)he is in the same stage as ALuv.  By the way, ALuv is a beginner in the  “Now I Know My ABCs” Stage; which is Stage 2.  I will be looking through pictures and my “lesson plans”…
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Short a Word Family Review

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Here is a recent activity ALuv and I did to review the short a families we’ve studied (off and on) since September.  After recording all his answers, ALuv had to tally up how many real and silly words we made and compare the difference between the two (I love to integrate as much as possible). I will be posting some…
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