Sight Word Flip Book
Well the new school year is underway, and the homework is already starting to pile up. As well as all the normal things that YC and EC are sent home with, they will also have to work on their high frequency sig...
Montessori Letter Flash Cards
When YC and EC were little I tried to make them some Montessori letters. I tried making them with glue and sand but wasn’t happy with the way the first set of phonics turned out. In the end I binned them and ...
Name Sensory Tray
The new school year has started and little ones are heading out to nursery or school. When YC and EC were really little and going to nursery, they had to find their name and then post it as part of their arriva...
Word Boxes: To Help Learn Spellings
At the beginning of last school year we had a gentleman come over to help EC with his reading and spelling. He was absolutely brilliant and gave us some techniques to use with EC to help him learn his spellings...
Phonic Find Game
We have done a similar phonic find game before. Before I would give them a letter and they would have a minute to find as many things beginning with this letter and bring them back to me.
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Making Tape Letters
Learning how to form letters properly takes a long time and needs lots of practice. To break things up a bit, I use a variety of different techniques. Ones that generally uses more than one senses i.e. salt wr...
Secret Agents: Can You Decode the Message?
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EC's favourite thing to do is to play at being a policeman or spy, give him ...
Connect 4: Sight Word Edition
I'm guessing that you know of, or have heard of the game Connect 4...? Well, this is Connect 4: sight word edition of the game for your little ones to play.
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Rhyming Words Match Game
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An important part of learning to read is learning about rhyming words. Why? Well there are a number of reasons:
a) it helps them...
Digging For Sight Words
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YC's list of sight words grows weekly, and although she is very good at reading them off the key ring that is sent home from school, it is ...
