"I Heart You!" Valentine Sight Word Game!

"I heart you!" Valentine Sight word game!  This game is based on a lot of games that I have seen with sight words.  I don't know about all of you, but my kids can NEVER get enough sight word practice.  This improves their fluency so much!  This game includes not all, but most of the Frye's 100 sight word list.  The directions are in the download.  Enjoy!

 

Click the heart for the download!

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It's Been a While, and THANK YOU with MAGIC E!

There have been so many nice comments and some new followers!  Thank you so much for the support!  I have not posted in a while, wow!  I am back with a new activity and some hopes for future posts.  First, here is a fun Magic E activity that we worked on!  There is a poem and a wand included in the free download below!  Just click on either picture.

Now for future hopes.  I received a Smartboard in December and I have been creating so much for it!  I would love to share it on my blog, and this is my new goal for the month.  I hope to have some posts soon that include downloads for your Smartboard so be on the lookout!  For now, I am creating some fun Valentine Games.  Thanks for following and look this week for Valentine Games!

Thank you!

Barbara from Grade ONEderful has awarded me the award! The Liebster is awarded to up and coming blogs with less than 200 followers. I'm going to pass it on to:

1.  http://cardigansandcurriculum.blogspot.com/
2.  http://our-cool-school.blogspot.com/
3.  http://mrsreynoldsfirstgradeadventures.blogspot.com/

Thank you also to Deb at Oh My Little Classity Class! (Number 3 above :-)  for awarding me the Versatile Blogger Award!  I have given her the Liebster Blog in return. 

I am working on some wonderful Magic "E" activities for this week, so look for those coming soon!

Gingerbread Pirates

This week is "Gingerbread Pirate Week" in our first grade community!  We just finished a fun unit where we created a gingerbread village with our students.  Now we are continuing this gingerbread theme by having a gingerbread pirate week.  Our spelling pattern this week is "ar".  I have seen many units on "ar" with pirates.  I borrowed some ideas and adapted them for our gingerbread pirate unit. 

On Monday, when the students came in, I introduced the theme of the Gingerbread Pirate week by having some fun Scrappin' Doodles clip art up in our morning message.  We then brainstormed some "arrrrrrrrr" words in pirate voices.   Next we read the book: The Gingerbread Pirates by Kristin Kladstrup.

This was fun because we have read SO MANY different gingerbread stories in the past months.  While reading we listened for more "ar" words.  Then we read a poem, did a word sort, and played some "ar" games!  You can find everything we did by clicking on the pictures below.  There is also a template to put together a gingerbread pirate and write "ar" words on his stomach! 

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