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Making inferences is on of the hardest skills for my students. Having to hear something or looking at something and read between the lines is not easy for a child who is a "typical" learner, let alone for one who has various challenges. Recently I was
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Every month we practice a different skill using shapes. I have shown this before in one of my sight word posts . This month we have community signs on shamrocks. We also have a few coins thrown in there with an American symbol or two. Just trying to keep
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I love making various versions of the game Oh No!, but I always wonder how they go in other classrooms. So to find out I asked a few of my fellow teacher bloggers to help me out. The first one who used it was Patty over at Second in Line . If you have
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My favorite place to get graphics for my classroom materials, My Cute Graphics , just added some new President's Day clipart to her webpage. I just had to find a way to use it! I made these cards to use with my students as a vocabulary and matching game.
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As I have mentioned in previous post, we practice sight words all the time. During our science lesson is another great way I can add in a little practice. Since my students LOVE music and they seemed to hang onto information better if I put it to a tune
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We have two word walls in our room. We have one that is up all year and we add words to it throughout the year. (Although this year, I have been really bad with this). It is on the back of a shelf that runs along our carpet. I thought this would be a
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Something new I started doing with our sight words is color by code. I originally posted about this in this blog post . Students color their sight words by the code to reveal the answer to the question. Everyone seemed to really like the color by code
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In addition to the games we play with sight words we also sing some A LOT of songs that often include our sight words. One we sing everyday during our morning circle is our sight word for the week song. This is sung to the tune of bingo and I often see
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We spent all of last week working on the book The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything. I love to use this book because of the interaction you can have with it. We have movements for each part of the book. Shoes (stomp with our feet) Pair of
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I have gained a lot of new followers since I posted this last year. I thought we should revisit Oh Turkey! so all of the new comers to check it out also (and those of you who missed it or forgot you had it can get it also!). Here is the description from
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I have been attending Tech Trek this week and learning all kinds of new educational things to use in the classroom. One that I have been very excited to share is wordle . It is such a neat way to display a bunch of words and I have thought of so many
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Hello Everyone!! I wanted to share a freebie with you. I made this for the young lady I tutor(she is going into 1st grade) and she loved it. I added a pre-made die template this time and also the words to add to your own die. You can click here to check
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I have gone gingerbread man crazy in my classroom! I read every gingerbread book I could get my hands on to the kids for the past two weeks. We also made our own gingerbread boys/girls out of foam to put on our classroom Christmas tree. Then last week
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I guess I have Thanksgiving fever these past few days. Today I made a Thanksgiving board game that I wanted to share with everyone. I plan on using it in my math group, but I left it blank so that you can add anything you want to the blocks or make task
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My students have jumped head first into the month of October and are already super excited about Halloween. I decided to make them a Find a word with a monster.(If you look carefully you can see the words hiding on the monster to the left.) I originally
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