This is a fun center I just created. Just print off the jellybean cards, laminate them and fold them into a plastic Easter egg. I have a cute pail I keep mine in. The students pick and egg, open it and read it. Then they write the word in an egg on the recording sheet. Simple yet fun! You could play this as a whole class and have one student come up at a time and pick and egg and everyone write the same word. A great way to review sight words. Click on the link to get it Free from my TPT store. Please consider following me if you download it. I'm so close to getting my first 100 followers. YAY! What's in my egg?
I finally got my word work unit done for Unit 5. We will be starting this soon and I have been working to find clip art that I love to complete it! I focus this unit on these words: make, play, she, all, no, he, said, good. Many activities are included that help kids focus on learning these words. The pick and write students pick a word card and write it in blank spot on the page. I also include pick and color to just color the words you pick. Here is the Read the Room page. This is in my work on writing center all year.
Clip, trace, write
Students use the word card and clip the word on them with clothespins. I write the letters on the clothespins and put one alphabet set in the box. Students clip the word on the card, trace it in the middle box and then write in the last box.
Here is the sight word color by word assessment sheet.
My kids love the scavenger hunts that I have created! They have to walk around the room and find the word and write the words on the recording sheet.
This unit I made something a little harder. I created a word building sheet. I focused on four words at a time. I have students cut up the letter to build the words.
The word cards for this unit. I use these to flip through everyday at the beginning of guided reading groups. I also make a set for the clip, trace, write. I also make two sets for memory with each unit.
Here are the cute word cards for pick and write!
Here is the link to my TPT store to grab your copy! If you would like any of the activities with your words you study let me know.
Well, this week was a little different. I was asked last Friday after school to fill in for the PRINCIPAL!! I got my administration endorsement a couple years ago so I was excited for this opportunity. It was fun to see kids in a different way and visit classrooms. I visited 1st grade writing celebrations and 4th grade plays and helped my Kinders with their turkey snacks! I got to hand out excellence tickets, it always makes my day when I can put a smile on a kids face. :) But next week my Principal is back in the office and I'm back in my classroom.
I did make some fun little centers this week. I finished up my Word Building Centers. This has 3 different centers in one packet. The first one I took all the word wall words and created beginning sound cards. Students write or put a letter tile on the box under the picture. Here is a sample of the cards.
I also created a Mystery code game. I made a code of students to follow. Each letter has a different symbol. The students use the code sheet to decode the words. I made a code card for all 50 sight words that we teach using the Journey curriculum. I will be adding this to a word work box.
The students love to be detectives and complete these word cards. It's a favorite second semester.
Linking Letters---I pinned this last month and had just used cards I have had for years. I decided to remake them and make them for every unit. You could also just put magnets on the back of these and students could build words on magnet boards.
This packet also has letter cards to build the words. These are the cards that I use for linking words together. I color coded my units so it put 8 words in each group. This way its not too overwhelming and students work on the words that are learning at that time. I always tell them they can go back and do the other colors we have already learned after they finish our color we are working on. This unit is only $3 on TPT. And everything is on SALE UNTIL SATURDAY in my TPT store! Click here to link to my TPT store. Word Building Activties-Click here
I also created a new packet to help students review and work on these sight words. I often make a stamping center for my kids. But they often get done with this so fast. I created a page where students need to Read, Write, Stamp, and Glue. Students need to take those extra steps to write the words. Then they have to find the correct word and glue it in the box. This is just $1 on TPT. Click Read-Write-Stamp-Glue to go to my TPT store.
And a FREEBIE for you!! Next week our words are come and me. Two words that I didn't have in my sight word packet. I use Fran Kramer from Kindergarten Crayons-Sight Words to Rock Your Room To packet for our sight work pages. But she didn't have any pages for come or me. I created my own.
Here they are for in. In case you teach these two words. Click on the words to get these pages.
I created this word work center. I used unifix cubes and wrote a letter on each one with a black sharpie. I write it on all sides of the cube. Then students link them together to build words. I have them color the words to match after they build them. I created these pages to match our units. If you would like different words to match your curriculum let me know I can make them for you. :) Enjoy!
I decided to share some of my literacy center/ word work ideas. In the beginning of the year we do some of these as literacy centers, then once we introduce Daily 5 these become word work. It works nice because students understand expectations already and make a smooth transition.
Playdoh words
This a playdoh word building center. This one that I made uses seasonal words but I also have one with all the word wall words we teach. All you do it take your cookie cutter that you use and dip them in paint. I used sentence strips but you could just use cardstock/ construction paper. Students use playdoh and cookie cutters to make the words and put them on top of the word strip.
Clip, color, and write
This center is featured in all of my Journeys word work units on TPT. I make letter clothespins. I put uppercase on one side and lowercase on the other. For students who need word cards, I let them clip to the word cards. Students who are more advanced you can just give them a ruler or paint stick to clip their word on. Then they color the word in the middle and write it in the last box.
Hammering letters
I just got this foam letter mat at Wal-mart or the dollar store. I can't remember now. I hot glued the pieces together. Students take the letters out and hammer them in one at a time. They LOVE it!! It's a favorite and gets used everyday.
Bean words
I used little glasses. They were actually tiny plastic shot glasses I bought at Dollar Tree. :) I made labels of all the words on the outside of the cup. Then I wrote the letters on beans and students pour out the letters from the cups and build the word. I keep the beans in the cup that they need to make the word to make it simpler and easier but you could just put a bunch of beans in a container with letters on them and have students find the letters to spell the words. We often play in it small groups and use it as a race to see who can spell their word first. I have them turn their cup over when they are done. They can only win if they can read the word!! It's a fun way to practice sight words.
Magnetic words
Aren't these so cute!! I love them! They are tiny magnets that I found once at Dollar General. I not sure if you can find them anymore but any magnets would work. Students build them in an Altoids container. I have a recording sheet that students then have to color the word to match their magnets. Again, these pages are in my Journeys Word Work Units on TPT.
Linking words
I used letter cards and learning links. I used the learning links from a teacher supply catalog. I then just laminated my letter cards and put hole punches on the side of them so students can link them together. I color code each of my units in our reading series so that I just put the words that they been introduced to. I put all the words from that unit on a card so they can refer to it when they are building their words. It's another favorite of my students!
Here are some of our favorite videos that we are singing and dancing to right now!!!
This is a fun center I just created. Just print off the jellybean cards, laminate them and fold them into a plastic Easter egg. I have a cute pail I keep mine in. The students pick and egg, open it and read it. Then they write the word in an egg on the recording sheet. Simple yet fun! You could play this as a whole class and have one student come up at a time and pick and egg and everyone write the same word. A great way to review sight words. Click on the link to get it Free from my TPT store. Please consider following me if you download it. I'm so close to getting my first 100 followers. YAY! What's in my egg?
