Education resources for parents and teachers
Looking to help your beginning reader practice reading and spelling short i words? Check these out! Need a creative approach to spelling practice? Simply print the free spelling mats and pull out some milk cap letters. The download includes the following words: When you print the download front to back, you child can slide off the caps and flip the mat over to check ... Read More
Have you seen my sets of free phonics books? Today I'm sharing set 9! Do you have a beginning reader who is just starting to sound out words? Or maybe you have a reader who struggles with sounding it out. Each word is laborious and painful. Reading just isn't fun. I'm here to help! Enter my phonics readers. What are they? Short little books that you can download for free. Books that give focus to a particular ... Read More
Today I'm sharing a simple math facts game using flashcards. Just grab a set of addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division flash cards... and you're good to go! Are you looking for a simple game to review math facts? My daughter is in second grade, and she is supposed to be practicing her addition facts a few times a week. So I created 15-in-a-row. How to Play 1. Get a set of flash ... Read More
Have you seen my word slider cards? These are great for helping children see how sounds blend together to make words. Today I'm sharing a set for short i. Word slider cards are simple to make and use. Simply write words on long pieces of card stock (or index cards) with a space between each new sound. Then seal a business envelope and cut off the end. Slide the paper into ... Read More
Today I'm sharing a free letter S printable... the last of our dot sticker pages! Free Letter S Printable Hurray! Our dot sticker pages are finally complete. Since we're doing the alphabet out of order (see why here), S was our last letter. My preschooler did this simple "S is for submarine" printable to reinforce the shape and sound of the letter S. We love dot stickers, but the challenge with using ... Read More
Today I'm sharing a giant set of free picture cards for developing vocabulary, promoting critical thinking, and learning alphabet sounds! Today I'm excited to share a project I've spent many hours on... alphabet picture cards. If you print the whole download, you get 192 bright photo cards for all kinds of early learning! I printed the pages on cardstock, laminated them, and cut them apart. ... Read More
We learned how to make slime! Have you tried it? We've been sharing sensory fun for every letter of the alphabet, and it's time for letter S. I figured it was time I learned how to make slime. And it actually worked! Slime is a very simple play recipe. We just needed two bottles of school glue, some liquid starch, and some food coloring. My Four and Six each dumped a ... Read More
It's time for another set of of phonics readers! Today's set features silent e. (This post contains affiliate links.) I'm sharing another set of phonics readers today - this time featuring the simple silent e words. I say "simple" because silent e has many roles. Today, however, we're keeping it simple. That's because this is the first time I've worked with my early reader on reading long vowel words. My Four ... Read More
Today you can download a mini-book of nursery songs and rhymes for letter S. Rhymes for letter S (free letter book) It's been almost two years since I started sharing my little letter books, and guess what? Today I'm sharing the final one! Hurray! You can now download a printable book of songs and rhymes for every letter of the alphabet. I choose nursery rhymes and popular songs and rhymes when creating these ... Read More
Today you can download a free game of Go Fish to practice those tricky r-controlled vowel words. I created this set of r-controlled vowel Go Fish cards to help my son with those tricky letter combinations: er, ur, ar, or, and ir. Rules for Play Feel free to make up your own rules! This is how we played: 1. Pass out five cards to each player. Put the rest of the cards face down ... Read More
