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New Products, Freebies, and Lots of Literacy Station Ideas!

Hope you are all having a great start to spring! I'm currently on spring break and thought I'd fill you in on some new products I've recently added, some freebies related to some topics we're learning about in my first grade classroom, and lots of literacy station ideas!

R-controlled vowels are and will be a big sound focus for the next several weeks in my first grade classroom. The week before spring break our focus was er, ir, & ur. When we return it will be or and the week after that ar. I created a little r-controlled vowel set with lots of goodies to help my first graders when recognizing these sounds. If you'd like to check it out you can go {HERE} or click any of the pictures below!

This set includes:

SMALL PICTURE/WORD CARDS : These cards can be used for sorting.

Small Sorting Cards

SORTING MATS & RECORDING SHEETS: These sorting mats can be used for sorting the small sorting cards above. After sorting, students can record words on recording sheets.

Sorting Mat

Recording Sheet

RHYME CARDS (MATCHING GAME): These cards can be used for a matching game. Players begin by placing face down. First player flips two cards over. If they rhyme, the player keeps both cards. If they do not rhyme, flip the player flips both cards over and it’s the next player’s turn. Winner is the player with the most cards.

Rhyme Cards (matching game)

I HAVE WHO HAS CARDS: 30 cards are included in this set. These cards contain pictures and words. If playing with less than 30 players, you could give players additional cards.

I Have Who Has Cards

30 LARGE PICTURE/WORD CARDS: These cards could be used in several different ways.

Here are two ideas:
*For matching, cut them apart so the words are separate and match the words with the pictures. These cards fit nicely in a pocket chart.
*To play a matching game, distribute word cards evenly between players. Place picture cards face down. First player flips over a picture card. If he/she has the matching word, he/she picks up the card. If not a match, flip card over and it’s the next player’s turn. First player with all of their matches complete is the winner.

Large Picture/Word Cards

Here's an r-controlled vowel word search and ABC order freebie that I have included during my intervention time. Just click the picture below for your copy!

Here's something new that I've also just added to the store! I LOVE including these cards at my pocket chart station and they truly help with my first graders vocabulary development. February, March & April are now available! To check out this April set you can go {HERE}!

Telling time to the hour and half hour was our math focus last week. I created these cards which I cut in half and my kiddos did a whole group matching activity using this and our large pocket chart. It was a great review! You can download this little freebie {HERE}!

If you're following my stations that I incorporate into my reading block, here's what we started last week, and will finish up a few days after we return from spring break!

*Listening Station: iPod shuffles- Not Your Typical Dragon, The Three Little Tamales, Motorcycles! & There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover!

*Syllable Sort: March Syllable Set that can be found {HERE}.

*Puzzle Place: Puzzle Place: 100 piece tiger puzzle, 60 piece Pinkalicious puzzle, and environmental print puzzles. {HERE} is an example of what the environmental print puzzles look like. I cut them up myself and place them in baggies.

*Word Way: Long i Secret Words worksheet that can be found in this pack {HERE} and Write it! with -ir & -er words. You can get this worksheet by clicking the picture below!

*Fine Motor: Dot Sight Words. I type up 5-6 sight words (usually longer sight words this time of the year like because, enough, thought, etc...) in a light gray colored font. My students dot paint them with cotton swabs. After they are dry, I staple them like a book and the student practices reading the set that he/she created.

*Pocket Place: March and April words that can be found {HERE} & {HERE}.

*Word Family: Rhyme match game that can be found {HERE} & Word Family Blackout that can be found {HERE}.

*Dice Drive: Roll a Sight Word that can be found in this set {HERE} and Sight Word Bingo. Just click the picture below to check out Sight Word Bingo!

*Artist's Alley: Bunny craft and poem. The cute bunny craft can be found {HERE}. My kiddos complete a writing activity to glue on the back of the bunny's face. My students make the oval face vertically, so the poem fits nicely on the back when glued. You can download the writing template and and see an example by clicking either picture below below!

Need more station ideas? Just click on the links below!

Click {HERE} if you'd like to see the first week and some info about my station work!

Click {HERE} for other station ideas!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hope you all have a wonderful rest of your week!

Hello March!

Yay for March! I always look forward to March because March means SPRING!!!! Although it rains a lot here in Oregon, I am hoping this March will bring more sun than we had in February. We've had a cold and wet winter and this teacher is ready for some SUNSHINE! It's been a while since my last post and I have several word sort freebies to share with you all :) I incorporate these into my small reading groups and create them based on our current sound focus in our reading program.

Thought I'd share a few freebies that I used with my first graders a few weeks ago!

This little long a freebie contains February themed clipart, but could really be used anytime!

Click on any of the pictures below to download!

This next freebie focuses on the long e sound.

Last week we finished up our dental health unit. I purchased these two resources and they were wonderful!

Thematic Dental Health Unit

Dental Health Unit: Activities to Teach about Teeth and the Dentist

And if you have Netflix there is a fantastic Sid the Science Kid episode that my kids loved! It's season 1 episode 16: A Brush with Teeth. We watched a little bit each day after we were packed up and waiting for the busses.

This week's sound focus in my classroom is long i (ie, i_e, y, igh) and I found this

Long I fabulous freebie ! I'll be incorporating some of the activities in my small groups and during my intervention block.

Here's a March themed worksheet that I will also use during my intervention block. Just click the picture below if you'd like a copy!

If you're following my stations that I incorporate into my reading block,

here's what we just finished up with at the beginning of last week:

*Listening Station: iPod shuffles- You Think It's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy & There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose!

*Sequencing Corner: The Very Hungry Caterpillar book, sequencing cards, and printable emergent reader. There are several sets of sequencing cards that you can find on TpT and Pinterest. The ones I use are came from Abby's store {HERE}. I just cut the numbers off. She has several other options like {THESE} which could also work. The emergent reader can be found {HERE}.

*Puzzle Place: Puzzle Place: 100 piece puzzles and environmental print puzzles. {HERE} is an example of what the environmental print puzzles look like. I cut them up myself and place them in baggies.

*White Boards: My kiddos write their weekly word list first, then write their own words or sentences.

*Rhyming Road: Rhyme concentration, rhyme book, rhyme match. These items can be found {HERE} and {HERE}.

*Digraph Dilemma: Make & Take Phonics Mini Books: Consonant Digraphs that can be found {HERE}.

*Word Wall Wizard: Hidden Words worksheet that can be found {HERE}. This is ALWAYS a favorite with my first graders!

*Word Way: Sight Word Pop. Printable popcorn can be found on our blog {HERE}. I bought popcorn containers from the dollar spot at Target. They are similar to the ones {HERE}. I also put Word Whiz out at this station. You can check them out {HERE}.

*Artist's Alley: Abraham Lincoln craft that can be found in {THIS} Evan-Moor book.

Click {HERE} if you'd like to see the first week and some info about my station work!

Click {HERE} for other station ideas!
Click {HERE} for other station ideas!
Click {HERE} for other station ideas!
Click {HERE} for other station ideas!

Click {HERE} for other station ideas!

Have a wonderful week!

Lots and Lots of Literacy Freebies!

Happy Monday! Hope your week is off to a great start! A few weeks ago my reading theme was pets. We read several books about pets, made lists of how to care for a pet and our favorite pets. We also did a pet picture/name sort and a writing piece about our favorite pets. I made a pet word search that was incorporated into our second reading block. My kiddos need to work independently during this time and this word search along with a pet mini book were two of the five paper activities that they could choose from.

You can grab this {HERE} or click below!

If you'd like to check out some of the other pet activities my first graders completed,

you can check out this set HERE, or click below!

Weekly word sorts are completed during my small reading groups and also during literacy stations (see below). Last week we focused on the short i sound. If you'd like this freebie, just click one of the pictures below!

If you're following my stations that I incorporate into my reading block,
here's what we finished up with last week:

*Listening Station: iPod shuffles- Llama Llama and the Bully Goat, The Biggest Pumpkin Ever, Spooky Hour & Skeletons

*Sorting Street: Short i word sort can be found {HERE} or click on the pics above

*Publishing Place: Transportation Book from our transportation set that can be found {HERE}

*Artist's Alley: Learn to draw a cat, dog, fish, and a rat (we had a pet theme last week in our reading program). {HERE} is where I got my step by step instructions. They were pretty easy for my first graders to follow. {HERE} is the entire Learn to Draw section.

*Fine Motor: Letter pick up. My kiddos use tweezers that I bought from Lakeshore Learning, they can be found {HERE}. I found this letter mat somewhere, but can't find it anywhere to add a link! If you know where it came from I would be glad to add the link :) My kiddos simply look for the letter in a container filled with Lace-A-Word Beads, pick it up with tweezers, and match it.

I also created a few Make-a-Word worksheets that relate to familiar sounds we've worked on during reading. You can grab these {HERE}, or click the picture below!

*Word Way: Spin a Word Bingo. I'll have the link up tomorrow :)

*Beginning Sound Boogie: I found out about this fun activity while searching on Pinterest. Pre-write consonants on spoons. Students choose a spoon and try and make a word. If it makes sense (it's a word and not a nonsense word) they write it down. I made two worksheets that focus on the sounds that we have previously learned in reading. If you'd like them just click {HERE} or the picture below!

*Pocket Place: Large pocket chart with short vowel pictures and words can be found {HERE}. Also at this station are student photos and name cards, frog life cycle cards (reading theme this week), and transportation sorting cards that can be found {HERE}

*Word Family: I used this freebie: Word Builders {-at family freebie} from Miss Kindergarten Love. I LOVED it so much that I bought both her long and short vowel set!

Click {HERE} if you'd like to see the first week and some info about my station work!

Click {HERE} if you'd like to see the second week

Have a fabulous week!

Long and Short Vowel Review

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday. We sure did!

We enjoyed spending lots of time with family and friends and not having to set our alarms at night!

I go back next week and our sound focus for the week in our first grade Treasures reading program is long i. We will be focusing on long i words with a silent e. A few weeks before our winter break our focus was long a words with a silent e. So this week I plan on doing A LOT of review with silent e! I also plan on reviewing short vowel sounds as well, mostly focusing on a & i.

We are currently working on a few new silent e products for our store and they should be up by next weekend!

Below we've got a few bingo freebies, as well as some great links to other sites for vowel practice ideas/activities.

I plan on using these bingo freebies below during my reading stations next week and the following week.

My first graders just love bingo!

Here's how we play this partner game!

1. Each pair of kids needs one spinner (place a clear spinner over the top, or use a pencil and a paperclip).

2. Each pair will need one or two worksheets (your pair could could share a worksheet each using a different color, or have their own).

3. Player one spins first. If the spinner lands on a long or short section, player one finds, reads, and colors in a long or short vowel word word on the bingo worksheet.

4. If the spinner lands on the "free choice" section, the player gets to choose a word of his/her choice to read and color.

5. This continues until one of the players gets five in a row!

If you'd like a copy of these bingo games, just click the picture below, or {HERE}!

If you have a SMART Board, this is a fun activity that I have used.

It includes both long and short vowel practice.

SMART Exchange Vowel Sort

We found this AWESOME anchor chart on Pinterest! I'll definitely be creating this with my first graders next week! It's from Teaching With Style and you can find this anchor chart and several others {HERE} on her site!

Love this cute video! Great for long/short vowel practice!

Here's a little freebie from Mrs. Pollard! My first graders used this last year at a literacy station and they LOVED it! I plan on using it again after we learn all of the long vowel sounds. You can find this freebie on our Pinterest board HERE or in her TPT store HERE

Have other ideas/activities to help your kiddos with long vowel practice?

Comment below!

We'd love to here your ideas!

We hope you all have a wonderful week!

Vowels & Word Work

Well it’s been a while, but we’re back with some activiteis and a freebie that we thought we’d share with you all!

Recently we’ve been working on understanding long and short vowels. Our kiddos have really been doing a great job of using strategies when decoding words containing vowels. We created this vowel book to work on in our small reading groups. To find out more about how we do small groups and literacy centers you can go {HERE}.

The vowel book can be copied full page and stapeld into a booklet, or cut and stapled in half sheets. We added two cover page options so you can choose what works best for you. When new sounds and words are introduced in our reading program we add them in our vowel books. Our kids are very familiar with short vowels, and now that long vowels are being introduced, this is a great way to practice writing and reading words with long vowels.
Just click the {Here} or pic below for a copy!

We’ve also been listening to a few vowel videos.

Here’s one about two vowels walking side by side.
Our kids just love it!

Here’s another favorite about silent e:

Word work is one of our centers during our small group/literacy center time. We’re always looking for fun and engaging word work ideas. We like to change them up a bit from week to week to keep our kiddos engaged. Here’s a fun guessing game we found and changed up a bit for our first graders. We can’t seem to remember where we found it, so if you know the original source please let us know and we’ll add a link!

Here’s how our kiddos play it:

First a student chooses a partener who is also at the word work center. If they are there alone, they can ask a child from another center if they’d like to play with them. Then they grab a plastic baggie that contains 10 counting bears (you can use anything small) and 3-4 cups, which each have the current week's sight words written on them. One player is in charge of placing the bears under the cups and the other player guesses where the bear is. The players sit side by side. The game begins by player 2 turning around while player one places a bear under a cup. Player 2 turns back around and says the sight word on the cup that he/she thinks the bear is under. If player 2 is correct he/she gets to keep the bear. If player 2 is not correct, player 1 gets to keep the bear. This continues until all 10 bears have been used. The player with the most bear wins. Then they can play again, but switch roles. They just LOVE this game, and we LOVE that they’re practicing their sight words!

We’re always in need of new word work ideas, so if you’ve got any please comment below! We’re sure there’s others that would also like to hear about some new ideas too!

Hope you all have a wonderful week!