28 FUN WAYS TO PRACTICE SPELLING WORDS! Our Spellling Activity Pack

I created a Spelling Activity Pack last week for K to start using with his spelling words. It is a really great pack and we have been having lots of fun with the activities!

Here is a picture of us playing a game of Spelling Tic Tac Toe!

If you want to see more about the pack it is here in my TPT shop:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spelling-Activity-Pack-925853

There are 18 different fun printable activities for kids to practice their spelling words. I have also included 10 extra hands-on activity ideas for kids to use! to practice.

I have made the activities with room for up to 6 spelling words.
For K I printed the pack out & put it into a duo-tang and then I have K pick out 1 activity at a time. The plan is to do a spelling activity 2-3 days per week and then try to fit a spelling test in at some point during the week as well.

This free printable is also in K's booklet and it is the 1st set of spelling words we used. K really loves using these dabbing sheets!

Here are some more pictures of K & I playing Spelling word Tic Tac Toe. We had so much fun with this game!

Here he is doing the word scramble sheet:

 

This is 1 of the 2 pages with extra "hands-on" activities that we often use to review our spelling words from the week.

I hope you will check out our Spelling Activity Pack. I know you won't be disappointed!

 

FREE CIRCLE TIME SONG PRINTABLES!

After making our "4 Little Spiders" circle time song printable here: http://anniesadventuresinhomeschooling.blogspot.ca/2013/09/4-little-spiders.html

 

I have been on the lookout for other fun circle time printables to add to our bin as well...the kids just love them!

 

I found these 2 adorable printable circle time song/activities from http://www.picklebums.com on Pinterest & thought I would share them. They are so cute!

5 green frogs:

http://picklebums.com/2011/03/29/five-green-frogs-printable/

 

 

 

 

5 little ducks:

http://picklebums.com/2011/06/14/five-little-ducks-puppet-printable/

I hope you enjoy them as much as we have!!

FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES

If you are looking for some fun FREE educational sites for the kids to use feel free to check back often as I will be adding to the list.
There are some great sites out there. Sometimes they can be hard to keep track of/find so I am making things easy for you & I both by listing them here :)


This site is great because you can choose the grade & subject level. It has a wide variety of fun games to play
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/

This site is the site that I have started both my kids on as toddlers because it is easy for them to use & they love it.
As toddlers they loved watching & listening to the songs. They also LOVE the games!
http://boowakwala.uptoten.com/kids/boowakwala-home.html

This site has some great games.
www.pbskids.org

This site is also great for little ones learning to use the computer. It teaches little ones the alphabet through song. It has some great games as well & stories for kids to read (or have read to them).
www.starfall.com

This site has some really neat games and it is divided by grade level & the games are lots of fun.
My sons favorite is sight word bingo playing against others online...pretty cool!
http://www.abcya.com/

This site is great for playing online math games. Lots of variety here & varied ages.
www.coolmath.com

This site is not a gaming site but it has been really great for practising math!
www.xtramath.com


This site is great for kids grade 4+.  It has games that promote critical thinking like engineering, performing surgery, simple machines etc.
http://www.edheads.org/

This site is a favourite of ours! My 12 year old step son still loves it & has been playing it since he was 9 yrs. old. My son who is 6 loves it as well.
The website has made a recent change that you no longer need to have a code (obtained when you buy a stuffed animal) so you are now able to play on the site for free!
The games are so much fun that even I enjoy them! I also love that they are taking care of pets & learning about $ with Kinzcash.
www.webkinz.com

This site is really cool!  We are still checking the site out as it is really new to us but so far we really like what we see. In addition to fun games there are also "live cams"  so you are able to watch animals. The kids think this is great!

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/

This site is fairly new to us as well. There are games, mad libs, online stories to read. This site seems really cool & we plan to do a lot more explore on it :)

http://www.funbrain.com/

This site is really cool! My son is very visual so this site is right up his alley! You are able to choose pictures on the site (great quality BTW) & create stories to share with friends & family via email or Facebook.
My son is thrilled by this!
 www.storybird.com


If you have any fun & educational free websites that you think should be added to the list please feel free to let me know in the comments section!

4 LITTLE SPIDERS PRINTABLE CIRCLE TIME ACTIVITY!

Yesterday K and I came up with a new fun circle time song!  It is called 4 Little Spiders. The daycare kids LOVE it and it has quickly become a part of our circle time routine. Hopefully others will print it out and enjoy it as much as we do!

 

If you are interested in downloading this fun FREE printable please visit my TPT store to download it and don't forget to leave me some feedback!
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4-LITTLE-SPIDERS-898922

After making this one I ended up finding a couple of cute free printable songs on Pinterest from www.picklebums.com.
The kids love them as well!
Here is my review of them & you can download them as well if you are interested:

 

Thanks for stopping by!

CANDY CORN FILE FOLDER MATH GAME

I made K a file folder math game this weekend because we have been practicing our addition facts. He LOVES it!!

It is so simple.....all you need is the download, a file folder,  glue, a die and anything you wish to use as player pieces (we used a gem & a squinky!)

Here is the look on his face when he got 8+8 :)  He got stumped on this one!!

  

Here he is excited he got the answer right. This game is a real confidence booster and tons of fun!

 



 

His job was also to "check" my answers to make sure I was answering them correctly. He caught me once making a mistake! :)

 

Here is what our game looked like at the end. He totally beat me! 

The duration of the whole game was about 15- 20 mins.  Perfect amount of time for my sons attention span.

 

 



 

I taped a plastic sandwich bag to the back of the file folder to put the cards & pieces in.

 

If you are interested in downloading this game it is here:
 

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CANDY-CORN-FILE-FOLDER-MATH-GAME-886548 

 

 

 

Rhyming Go-Fish Game

I found this game yesterday on Pinterest and knew instantly that K would love it. He LOVES go-fish and is always wanting to play it!

I got the game here:
http://teachmama.com/time-to-rhyme-go-fish/

I took about 10 words from this list:
http://www.education.com/magazine/article/firstgradesightwords/ 

& then added another 10 that I knew he has been getting stuck on lately.

At first he kept saying "mom, what does this say?" I answered him the first 3 times and then I made him start reading them... He was being totally lazy ;)

He did not complain at all though & once he started beating my butt at the game we were both laughing and joking around.
I kept saying things like "I bet I can stump you with this word!" & "You are so not going to get this one right!!"  It was lots of fun!! We ended up playing 2 rounds.

I loved this game & love that I can keep adding new words to it.....so simple!

Nature Scavenger Hunt

Last week K was into being a "spy" & these days that is ALL he talks about...LOL

It sparked an idea for me to make up an outdoor scavenger hunt....and of course I needed to sneak in some learning opportunities as well.

 

I thought I took a picture of the list but I can't find it so I will write out what I remember:

 

O  Find something red

O Find something that rhymes with "sock"

O Find a blue car

O Find something that starts with an "D"

O Find something that rhymes with "free"

O Find something that starts with a "G"

O Find something that starts with a "C"

O Find a robin

O Find an insect

 

I had him check everything off as he found them. I also had him write out the items he found that started with a certain letter & that rhymed.  I got a little sigh when I asked him to do this (He HATES writing!) but he did it with no argument ;)

 

For the letter D- this one took him a while but he finally found "door"

Letter G- garage

Letter C- cat

For the word that rhymes with sock he found "rock"...this one was super easy for him.

 



Little K had a lot of fun with this!   There was so much learning here with him reading the list (repeatedly) & thinking of rhyming words, as well as the items that started with a certain letter.  Even Baby M had lots of fun helping her brother (she loves insects!)  & we will definitely be doing it again! :)

Geocaching!

We have recently discovered  Geocaching & the  whole family has fallen in love!

 

The boys finding a cool cache container!

Babygirl checking out the loot while Big H writes in the log book :)

 

Found another one!

 Mommy & Babygirl

The kids definitely give Geocaching the thumbs up!  

 

We will be doing lots more because it is fun & free.

What I did was purged a bunch of small toy items/odd items from around the house & place them in a plastic container & we keep it in the truck. When we are out & decided to stop & look for a cache we can grab an item anytime from the container (to replace any items the kids may take from the cache).

 

Here is a link to the site:

www.geocaching.com

Picture Word Bingo

 

All the kids got into this game!  I picked it up from "Winner's"  for $5 & it`s called ``picture word bingo``. 

  I compromised with K & told him of he played it once with the word only side that he could then play it with the picture side.  He was fine with that & did a great job recognizing every word.  Even Little M had a great time with it and recognized all of the pictures she had on her card (although she didn't want to keep the stones on the card ;)

 

 

I wish I could share the pics. with Little M in them but there are daycare kiddos in them.