My "students" are not yet in Kindergarten, as they missed the cutoff in NC by five days, but either way.. some kindergarten teacher's loss is my gain. (This is what I think most days.. some days, I do not think this at all!) For the Pre-K twins I have been doing one of my favorite elementary literacy activities, called Making Words! Is was designed and invented by Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall who were my professor's at Wake, and is part of the balanced literacy model. C and H just love this one and I am using the 1st grade lessons because you don't usually do making words in Kindergarten, but it does seem to be developmentally appropriate for these two. By far their favorite part of the lesson is when they get to write other words they can spell using the words they made. In this picture they have written crab, grab, flat, cat, fast, mast (don't worry we are working on handwriting.) For added fun, I have used these word slides from Cherry Carl (A generous genius who has all her literacy products online, and downloadable for FREE!!)
I also get some scissor work in by writing the letters on a piece of sentence strip purchased at the dollar store and having them cut it apart. This little easel was sent to me by The Mr.'s aunt, and came with some matching cards the kids still get a kick out of. I love using it for Making words because the two kids can stay seated at the table, but still get to "lead the class".
I used this book a lot when I was in my teaching credential program. It's awesome. I still have all the letters I laminated too, and the little letter trays I made out of file folders.
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