Education resources for parents and teachers
Looking for a game to help your child learn the sounds of beginning and ending digraphs? Today I'm sharing five of them! About a month ago I shared a giant set of Roll a Short Vowel games. Today I'm sharing five Roll a Digraph games! How to play 1. Grab a playing piece for each player and a die. Print the board you'd like to use. 2. Put all playing pieces on Start, and take turns rolling the die. 3. When you ... Read More
It's time for more alphabet fun! This week we're sharing letter J activities for preschool. We kept our activities light this week, for a few reasons. The main reason is that spring has arrived! My little guy spent lots of time outdoors, and I spent hours cleaning out closets and swapping clothes for our five kids. I'm always glad to have that job done! Another reason we kept it light is because he's got letter J ... Read More
Looking for reading games you can make yourself? These are perfect if you're short on time! Recently I shared a printable list of CVC words that you can use when planning activity for your child or students. Today I'm sharing ten simple games and activities you can make yourself. Just plug in the words! Kids Activities Blog made a simple phonics flip book with a wirebound index card book. Kathy Griffin's ... Read More
Do you ever find yourself stuck when you're trying to think of short vowel words for your beginning reader? I'm sharing a free printable CVC word list! Lately my Four's reading ability has taken a big leap. No more slooow sounding out of CVC words... he's got them down! At bedtime when we're waiting for my husband to finish our youngest son's Bible story, he likes to bring me his magnetic drawing board and have me ... Read More
Is your child having trouble hearing the middle sound in CVC short vowel words? Try these free clip cards! My four-year-old is working on reading CVC words. Recently, it clicked! I created these CVC vowel clip cards to help him listen for the sound in the middle of the words. I figured the cards would be no problem at all, and was creating them more for your use than ours. I was surprised that these were a bit of a ... Read More
One thing all writers love is words. So I created a printable spelling dictionary so my children would have a special place to keep them. So... do you consider yourself a natural speller? How about your kids? It's true that the ability to spell comes easily to some kids and not so easily to others. I remember a first grade student who was a natural speller. At her parent ... Read More
Today I'm excited to share my newest project: 15 easy-prep games to help your child or students master CVC words! Games for teaching CVC words How to play 1. Print the game you'd like to play. You can choose a game that features short short a, e, o, i, or u words. Or you can print a game that features a combination of short vowels. So many possibilities in this pack of 15 games! 2. ... Read More
This letters and sounds game is a fun and effective way to practice identifying the beginning sounds in words. Today I'm thrilled to welcome Danielle from Mom Inspired Life! She's sharing a guest post today while I catch up on some behind-the-scenes blog work. I encourage you to sign up for her newsletter so you don't miss any of her creative learning activities and printables! Here's Danielle... Lately, we have ... Read More
If you're on the lookout for letter I activities, you'll love this round up of playful learning! (Update: I published this post years ago when my children were young. Now that I have more time, I've created a done-for-you alphabet curriculum perfect for preschool! I drew the shape of an igloo and spread some glue. My Three placed the white squares in a surprisingly neat pattern with just a little help from me at the ... Read More
Today I'm sharing an updated version of one of my first printables! It's a free file folder game for preschoolers. To give my youngest son (age three) some practice with one-to-one correspondence and number recognition, I created an updated version of my ice cream game. It's nice to be able to keep an activity in a file folder for easy storage and reference! When you click the link, you will find two ... Read More
