On dark winter mornings, bring a little zing to your day with this lemon scented sight words sensory tub. The tub smells so good! It’s energising and lovely to play with, and it’s also great for some sigh words practise. Here’s how to dye and scent the rice, and a fun idea for sight words play. Lemon . . . → Read More: Wake up your brain! sight ...

Learning sight words can be a very B.O.R.I.N.G task.  Boring doesn't work for me so I thought I would try to make learning sight words a bit more interesting with our Sight Word Watches.  Don't get me wrong...kids can't learn by sight words alone...but they are very important to any successful reading program.  Kids get to color their watches, ...

I remember as a child getting sand art kits to make pictures with different colored sand.  It kept me busy for quite awhile.  During my first year of teaching I came up with another creative way to use colored sand.  My sand center was probably the most popular learning center that I had when I taught Kindergarten. We used the sand to make our ...

Another kinesthetic learning activity I enjoy using with students is working with play dough.  Sometimes I buy the premade commercial version. (I admit it.  I like the smell!  It takes me back to my own childhood.)  Other times, I make my own.  Here are a some great recipes from a blog called Pre Kinders.  I've taught students to roll the dough ...

Sight words are such an important component to the reading journey!  When both phonics and sight words are coupled together in a reading program, students have the skills necessary to succeed. I also love to make printables that make the learning FUN!  Here is a Roll, Read and Color FREEBIE to help your students practice and review ALL of ...

I am always looking for fun and innovative ways to teach and reinforce sight words since they play such an important roll in early reading success.  I thought I would share a few sight word statistics with you: *12 Sight Words make up 25% of those we read and write *100 Sight Words make up 50% of those we read and write *About 300 ...

Helping a child learn how to read can be one of the greatest experiences for teachers and/or parents!  When children begin the reading journey, it should be both FUN and EXCITING!  Our Ready2Read program does just that!  We have combined both phonics (through word families) and sight words to make learning enjoyable!  It is amazing how quickly ...

It took me awhile to come up with a nice way of storing the sight word flashcards (you can print them off in this FREE eBook!).  In the end, I decided to use Command Hooks on a cabinet door.  I think they look quite cheery, how about you?  The Command Hooks work great.  I did have one that kept falling off, which is weird because they are all ...

In case you missed my post, I updated my  Let it Snow! Sight Word Find!  The download now includes both a K and a 1st grade version! ~ Mrs. McKown

Unit 7 of our Ready2Read program is now available!  If you are looking for a Reading Program that works, then this is it!  By the end of Level 1 and Level 2, we will have mastered 38 word families and 88 pre-primer and primer sight words!!  Hop on over to The Moffatt Girls blog to learn more! Some of the activities included in this unit ...