Hello, Friends! While I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of my sweet baby (did I mention I was pregnant and due any day?) I put together this fun packet all about teaching contractions: Contraction Magic! I am literally enduring pregnancy contractions and we are learning about contractions in first grade.
Teaching CVCe word patterns to your kindergarteners and first graders can be tricky! Let’s start with first things first. What does CVCe stand for? CVCe = Consonant Vowel Consonant e In CVCe words the vowel says it’s name (the long vowel sound) and the ‘e’ on the end is silent.
Raise your hand if you love Fly Guy!! My students are nuts about this little character and these books don’t stay on our book shelves for long. Fly Guy books are great for teaching about the long /i/ sound spelled ‘Y’ (For example: fly, sky, my). Last week we learned
My first graders have been working hard in their word family books! I originally posted about them HERE, but I wanted to update you on how it’s going. Each student has their own word family book that they keep in their desk. We pull it out about two times a week and
I am so excited to share these Word Family Workbooks with you! This workbook includes 100+ long and short vowel word families that come at the end of a word (and common digraphs). It is a FANTASTIC year-long tool that will help your students learn about different word families and
This Digraph Packet is full of fun (I believe that fun in the classroom means you are tricking your students into learning… and I love being tricky)! In this packet you will find posters for each consonant digraph (SH, WH, PH, CH, & TH) and flash cards for each digraph.
Raise your hand if you love Fly Guy!! My students are nuts about this little character and these books don’t stay on our book shelves for long. Fly Guy books are great for teaching about the long /i/ sound spelled ‘Y’ (For example: fly, sky, my). Last week we learned
Last week we learned about the vowel pairs “ou” and ow” (example: found, clown). My students had a lot of fun with these clown activities and they loved the silly clown posters! You can check out this packet in my TpT Shop by clicking HERE. I work at a really great school
Last week we learned about the double /oo/ sound… (example: good, book, cook). This is such a hard one to remember, because it isn’t an actual vowel sound. Instead, it sounds like a muscle man flexing his huge muscles. That’s why I called in the big guns. My big/younger brother, Mr. Cody,
Give your students the number sense practice they need with this FREE worksheet that can be used daily and with any number 0-999!
This FREE activity takes regular, boring flashcards and turns them into a fun, competitive game. Your students won’t even realize they are learning!
