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!

 

Animal Classification/Notebooking pages

I made this printable pack for K because we have been reading a lot about animals lately.

 

 

He had a lot of fun with it!

It is available for download here:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ANIMAL-CLASSIFICATION-LAPBOOKNOTEBOOKING-PAGES-916995

 

Here are the boys working on it together :)

 

THE ULTIMATE HALLOWEEN THEME POST!

There are plenty of Halloween themed printables & activities available as we get ready for Halloween!  Add some Halloween fun to your homeschooling day!

  Here is a FREE HALLOWEEN PRINTABLE PACK  for you to download.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-HALLOWEEN-PRINTABLE-PACK-929969

with writing prompts, read & copy sheets and telling time activity.



Here is a cute Halloween craft! Great for kids of all ages:
http://anniesadventuresinhomeschooling.blogspot.ca/2013/10/halloween-playdoh-fun.html

This printable is a great circle time song to sing with you little one(s)
It is a cute little song about "4 little spiders" trying to catch some flies! Your children will giggle when you sing them this song and ask you to sing it over & OVER again!
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4-LITTLE-SPIDERS-CIRCLE-TIME-SONGACTIVITY-898922

Here is a great recipe for making some Halloween Playdoh!
http://anniesadventuresinhomeschooling.blogspot.ca/2013/10/halloween-playdoh-fun.html

 

Check out this cat & pumpkin themed colour coded sight word dabbing sheet! Another great sheet to practice sight words.
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-COLOUR-CODED-SIGHT-WORD-STAMPING-885918

For the tots here is a fun set of FIND A LETTER sheets. There is a really cute "P is for pumpkin" one!
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FIND-A-LETTER-SHEETS-874158

 

 

After Halloween your child is sure to have lots of Candy to use with this fun "Counting Candy" printable! Let them have some math fun counting while admiring their pile of candy ;)
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/COUNTING-CANDY-SHEET-873102

This candy corn file folder math game is great for practising beginner addition & it's so much fun!

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

This pack of  Halloween themed sight word stamping sheets have adorable graphics & are lots of fun for practicing over 30 different sight words!
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/HALLOWEEN-SIGHT-WORD-STAMPING-879989

Have a child like I do that that loves filling in calendars?! 
This  pack is a years worth of calendar printables for your child to fill in! They will be learning lots without even knowing it!

12 MONTH CALENDAR WORK PACK

www.supermommytotherescue.com hosted an awesome blog hop that features plenty of pumpkin themed printables for kids of all ages. Check it out here: 
http://supermommytotherescue.com/september-theme-pumpkin-printable-blog-hop-for-all-ages

 

www.frugalhomeschoolfamily.com has an awesome free printable pack on her site right now!

HALLOWEEN PRINTABLE FUN PACK!

I hope you have enjoyed these awesome Halloween themed activities!

"MY BABYSITTING KIT" PRINTABLE PACK

I am so happy to share the new printable pack that I just finished making!

I have so many fond memories of babysitting as a teen! I LOVED it!
I have put together a "babysitting kit" will all the things that would be helpful for being a great babysitter. This would be the perfect gift for that teen looking to start a new career in babysitting.
It contains lots of stuff to keep the kids busy as well as an emergency form, a form for learning more about the kids you care for, craft ideas, songs, business cards & lots more!

Please feel free to download it here:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/MY-BABYSITTING-KIT-PRINTABLE-PACK-907598

Here are some more detailed pictures of what the babysitting kit looks like. I hope you like it!

Our Daily Checklist

We have started using a Daily Checklist to help keep us on task & so far it has been working really well!

I know all kids are different...for K I have found that he really thrives on things being "the same".  This sometimes drives me a little crazy because I am not a very good planner...but I have been really making an effort to take every Sunday to plan ahead for my homeschooling & daycare week because things run a lot smoother when you have a plan!

K & I decided today that we would also incorporate an incentive to make the checklist fun! We are going to total his checks up at the end of the day & give him "mom bucks". This way when he collects enough "mom bucks" he can shop at the "mom store" (A Rubbermaid I have that will soon be stocked up with a few items like new markers, books, treats, small toys, puzzles etc.)

Here are some pictures of the prize bin & "mom bucks":
http://anniesadventuresinhomeschooling.blogspot.ca/2013/10/using-mom-bucks-with-our-daily.html

We also decided today that we will declare every Friday "Fun Friday".  We will still be homeschooling Fridays of course but we will try to incorporate as many games & fun activities as possible to make the day more fun (this is more for me because sometimes I tend to be way too serious ;)

This checklist is separate from our "chore list". Our chore list is a calendar with items listed for them to complete (2 chores) everyday. For these chores they collect .25 cents per chore they finish.

This list is meant as an extra incentive for school work completed.

Here is our checklist:

Feel free to download it here for FREE if you are interested:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/HOMESCHOOLING-DAILY-CHECKLIST-900452

ETA:  If you want to see our actual list filled in it is included in the download. I uploaded both a blank copy and a filled in copy in the download :)

Also, we now use this with my 12 yr. old step son as well!  We have been struggling lately with him helping out with his siblings & playing the "big brother" role...this list has been great encouragement & motivation for him.
His list has the following on it:

Brush teeth in the AM
Brush teeth before bed
Read with your sister
Read with your brother
Help your brother with homework
Play a game with your brother (board/learning game)
Finish homework
Feed the geckos

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 

 

 

 

FREE PUMPKIN THEMED PRINTABLES!

I am so excited this week to be linking up with other bloggers for the first time!  We are linking up with pumpkin themed printables & will be going live on September 23, 2013.

Please have a look at all the other awesome printables that are available for you to download here over at www.supermommytotherescue.com

http://supermommytotherescue.com/september-theme-pumpkin-printable-blog-hop-for-all-ages

 

The following are the FREE pumpkin themed printables I created:

 

 

and for the little ones:

 

 

There are a few of these & they are not all Halloween