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Need school supplies?

Back To School Bash

August 18th, 2012 

400+ back packs will be distributed for local students filled with school supplies. 

10 AM - 1 PM at Harvest Christian Center - 4231 Long St. 

 

Bounce Houses, Cotton Candy, Popcorn, Activities on site. First come first serve!

10 ways to become a better reader

Head to the Sweet Home Library 

for a book to read!!

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Fun with letters

There are several different sites I use when wanting to add a little fun to a worksheet.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Spell with Flickrr is one I've been using for years.  It's super simple- just type in the words you'd like and it's searches through Flickr's pictures to find letters for you.  If you don't like one of the letters, just click on it to get a different one.  Each of the letters must be saved individually by right clicking or you must take a screen shot of your word. 

GeoGreeting is a fun letter site.  On this site you simply type in a word and it finds buildings that when photographed from above, look like letters.  Such a neat idea! 

IconScrabble is a letter site that uses common icons for letters. 

You just type in your word and icons with those letters pop up! 

B, D, and P

Here is a fun fish bowl sorting game aimed at helping students who struggle with p, b, and d confusion.

Students sort the lettered fish into the correct bowls after hearing the sound spoken aloud. 

Some of the kids still struggled with these letters at the end of the year. This would be a fun game to play for a few afternoons to help your child learn these letters.

Beginning Sound Game

I wish I found this last year .... such a fun game. So a HUGE skill in the first months of kindergarten is hearing the beginning sound. This is actually a skill that we test throughout kindergarten. Please play this game with your incoming kindergarten student. If students have this skill it makes reading SOOOO much easier.

Nine Squares is an activity where students have a choice of nine pictures. They need to identify which one begins with the sound given. They can even roll the arrow over the picture to hear the beginning letter sound. Once all nine are identified, a picture is revealed. 

The Painting Game is a game where children match pictures with sounds. It focuses on initial sounds. Students listen to the word and chooses the word that begins with the same sound.  They can even roll the arrow over the picture to hear the beginning letter sound. 

Rubber Ducky is a matching game where students must match the sound to the letter on the rubber duck.  

Each of these games has oral directions that can be used or turned off.

Counting

So you can tell that Miss Thompson has found TONS of online resouces. These are all about counting. They would be great for a younger sibling. I know many of the kindergarten kids (now first graders) have younger siblings. Practice some counting skills!!!

There are so many great online activities for students who need practice counting.  

Here are just a few! 

 

Big Count is a great place for students to practice counting by 1's, 2's, 5's, or 10's. 

Teddy Numbers

Count your Chickens 

Count to 100 

Ladybugs Counting 

The Secret Monster Game 

Count the Ants

Count the....

Counting Goats

Five Little Ducks

Five Little Speckled Frogs

Counting Blocks

Counting Bingo

Writing Numbers

Identify 11-30

Counter

Counting Stick

How Many?

Spud's Counting Game

More Word Work

Walls of Words is another fabulous site for practicing sentence building with students. 

 

You can choose between a 5 word or 7 word sentence.   

You are then given a set of words and your job is to unscramble 

the words to make a complete sentence and add the

 correct punctuation before the timer runs out. 

If your sentence is correct the builders will come out and 

help you finish the wall and you'll get a new set of bricks.

Word Work

Below are some great sites for young students to work

 on building and creating complete sentences.  

Many have oral options and would be great to use

 whole class or with individual students. 

Let the sentence building begin! 

Puzzle Shapes- 

Students drag the puzzle pieces to make a sentence.

Who Am I?- 

Students fill in the blank to complete the sentences. 

This has an audio button where the sentences 

can be read to them for an independent activity.

Writing Runway-

 The teacher types in a sentence and the words are them mixed up. 

The student's must arrange the words

 correctly on the runway to complete the sentence. 

The Patchworker- 

Arrange the words in the correct order across the bottom of the 

screen to make a proper sentence and reveal the patchwork picture. 

Wacky Fridge- 

Click on a word or letter and while holding down your mouse button, 

drag it to a different place on the refrigerator. 

When you release your mouse button, the word will "stick" to

 the fridge right where you left it.  

If you need to duplicate a word, click on the word and hit the

 "d" key and another card for that word will appear. 

Monkey Business- 

Click the words/phrases to make complete sentences and earn bananas. 

Silly Sentences- 

This is a great site from Reading Rainbow.  Just click on a button 

from each row to make a silly sentence. 

Once you complete your sentence, it is read aloud to you! 

The following sites from TES iboard are all great sentence creators. 

Students position the characters on the backdrop 

and then create sentences to show their location. 

A Day at the Beach

 A Day at the Park

A Day in the Country

Silly Sentence Maker- 

Make silly sentence by dragging around nouns and verbs into the boxes. 

Click on the sound icons to hear the words. 

A correctly formed sentence will be rewarded with an image

 and sentences can be printed.