Spring Break is OVER!!

As I prepare myself to get back into 5am wake up calls, I am working VERY hard on a new activity that I CANNOT wait to share!! Stay tuned...hope to have it up on TpT tomorrow!

In the meantime, I have a one page FREEBIE homework sheet to go along with any Spring themed simile lessons you have.  

You can find it here on TpT.

Please if you snag it, leave some feedback so I can grow like the daffodils:)

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Reasoning With Rain- Facts Vs. Opinion Writing!

Here is a great freebie to get you through the rest of April!  Reasoning With Rain is an activity to discriminate between facts and opinions.  It includes a cute umbrella and rain theme.  
Check it out on TpT here.

Enjoy and please leave feedback if you like this freebie!

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Believe me, Golidlocks Rocks!

Who doesn't love fairytales? Not me!  Here is a great addition to any fairytale unit.  This activity is a companion for the book "Believe me, Goldilocks Rocks!" by Nancy Loewen.  It is a wonderful, modern day version of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".  The comparing and contrasting opportunities are endless in this unit!

Check out the companion I created for this story.  You can find it here.

The pack includes:

•Vocabulary Cards- 12 cards with 2 pages to record words and meanings
•Compare & Contrast- Compare characters from Goldilocks and the Three Bears to Goldilocks Rocks!•Same & Different- Writing activity to state similarities and differences from Goldilocks and the Three Bears to Goldilocks Rocks!•Higher-order comprehension questions- 12 “wh” comprehension questions•Cause & Effect- Match the Effect to the Cause & Writing Activity•Problems & Solution- 2 problems are given.  Students must write the solution from the book and a second solution that they would do.
•Sequencing Cards- Sequence and retell events from the book with these 12 cards (Level One & Level Two)

Happy fairytales!

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Nouns/ Verbs/ Adjectives Visual Enforcer Freebie

I have spent the morning planning for the month of May.  I have several spring activities that focus on the parts of speech and sorting nouns/verbs/adjectives.  I realized that I don't have a visual enforcer to go along with them.  Soooo, today's gift is a one page sheet that describes the parts of speech to use as a reference or a visual enforcer.

You can find it here on TPT.  Pretty please if you grab it and enjoy it, leave feedback.

Happy Friday:)

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Minimal Pairs Phonemic Awareness

I have several kiddos who have difficulty with minimal pairs.  These tricky sounds that only differ by voicing, give us a run for our money!  I created a matching activity to target discrimination between /p, b/ and /t, d/ using pictures of common objects.  I used this activity last week and began by having the student produce the target sound in isolation and "feeling" for voicing.  They are always amazed when they can feel their neck vibrate with /b/ and /d/!  

Once students have a handle on which sound is voiced, they can match objects to the initial sound from a field of 2-4.  I always use a train as a visual enforcer and to ensure my kiddos remember where beginning sounds are. (this is included in the download)  Or you can create a pawprint puzzle with all four sounds!  To create a puzzle, print 4 copies of the blank pawprint and adhere to poster board.  Then attach velcro (or I like to use sticky putty) to paw print pieces.  Students can draw cards, match objects by initial sounds and use in a sentence!

I also laminated the paw prints with blank toes for extra practice.  Once laminated, students can use dry erase markers to write words or draw pictures of items beginning with the target sound.

You can find this activity on tPt here.

I also have been using a cute youtube video from TLC's Lively letters for /b and p/.  You can find that here on youtube.

Common Core Standards Aligned:
RF 2d. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant- vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.
RF 2c. Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single- syllable words.

Happy minimal pairing!

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Gnaw On My Paw Rhyming Activity Freebie

Since I am on spring break and spent the past few days with my favorite four-legged friend, it's paw print theme time!

Here is a cute FREE phonological awareness activity to help students identify rhyming words.  Of course, this is aligned to Common Core State Standards -RF 2a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.

Use the “rhyme train” as a great visual enforcer to help identify ending sounds in words.

•Cut out all parts of paw prints.

•Have students match paw parts together by finding rhyming words.

•Print multiple pages of page 14 as a “board” for students to place rhyming paws on.

•This activity is great as a puzzle!  Print 4 blank boards and arrange on a poster board.  Print and cut all paw pieces with words on them.  Give students all pieces and have them work together to fill all the paw pieces on the puzzle to create 4 rhyming paws.

•Use pages 9-13 for homework or as a branching strategy for students to create their own rhyming words. 

You can find this activity here on tPt.

Enjoy!

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Spring Category Freebie!

Finally Spring!!
I have been so excited for the warmer weather and so are my kiddos.  We have been talking a lot about seasons lately.  I created this cute category activity to target spring themed vocabulary and work on categorization.

I have used this matchup activity with my kindergarteners to target phonemic awareness skills.  They tap out the sounds in target words and then use process of elimination if they don't know which category the target word belongs to.

My older students are using this activity to expand expressive language by using the target words in a sentence.  All student can use the provided blank worksheets to fill out by recalling members of the categories, or by adding their own.

I hope you enjoy this freebie.  You can find it here on tPt.

Happy Spring:)

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