Have you had a chance to download and use any of the freebies from the 'Lessons From the Heart' eBook yet? I did...and I am excited to share with you what my kiddos did!
If you haven't downloaded the book yet, here it is:
I blogged about my freebie that is in the book, Who Will Win the Medal? Ordinal Number Game, back on February 1st, but am now going to share 2 great resources I 'snagged' from the eBook and used in my classroom this week!
First one comes to you from Mrs. Payton's Precious Kindergarteners!
It is a set of CVC puzzles for short a!
She has 6 sets of heart puzzles for -at, -am, -an, -ad, -ap and -ar.
I had my kids work with 3 puzzles at a time.
They really did great matching them up and had fun doing so!
Once they completed all 3 they had to them flip them over...
Where they checked to see if the same numbers were on the back of all 4 pieces (I numbered the puzzles 1-6 since there were 6 sets. You could also do all of a set has a similar shape or color marking on the back).
If they all matched they knew their puzzle was correct!
BAM! All correct!
The next morning I had those students complete the b&w printable she provided in the set for extra review and practice!
It is a great set...and although it has a heart shape that one would assume means it is a Valentine product, it really can be used all year long because...we HEART (LOVE) CVC/word family practice!
The other freebie we used this week came from Teaching With Nancy!
It is a set of clipping cards for upper to lowercase matching.
The cards come really big, so what I did was choose 'print 2 to a page' on my printer and it made the cards half the size. Then I put a hole punch in each card and attached with a binder ring. I made 4 sets and put them on my guided reading table. For one of my lower groups I passed them out and had them clip the letters as part of our word work. They were 'just the right size' for little letter learner hands!
I marked the back of the right answer with a dot. After they clipped, they flipped it to check if they were right. If so, they went on to the next letter, if not, they tried again!
I had printed one of the sets of cards at the regular size (that's when I realized how big they were) but didn't want to 'waste' the ink and paper, so I turned those into ABC ordering cards...
They too were on a binder ring. I took off a section at a time and gave it to a kid (about 5-6 letters) for them to put in order.
I also used the lowercase letters from the top that I had cut off for a upper/lowercase matching after the letters were put in ABC order!
And the extra letters that weren't needed for letter matching, I used with my higher groups for making CVC words (sorry- no picture- I ran out of memory card space!)
There are many other wonderful freebies in the eBook and I wish I had time to try them all out!
Be sure to download the book (link above) and try out some of the fab freebies yourself!
Until next post,
So glad your kids enjoyed the CVC puzzles! What a great idea to make them self checking with numbers on the back! :)
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Mrs. Payton's Precious Kindergarteners
we have been preparing for the anticipated snow as well this week and so we have "doubled up" on our centers. my co-teacher said to me, so if we actually do have school, then what? :) now i can let her know that we will be completing some of the activities from the "lessons from the heart" e-book! thank you for sharing and for the inspiration!!!
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of putting the clip cards on a binder ring!
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