Speedy Sight Word Practice

First of all, I had to share this picture.  Guess what shape we have been working on?  He did this all by himself during morning work, and it was kind of genius!

I wanted to share an easy and fun way to review sight words that I use a lot for lining up the class.  I have holiday themed sight word cards, and focus on about five words at a time.  I make four of each word- so I may use 4 "like" cards, 4 "was" cards, 4 "and" cards, 4 "see" cards, 4"can" cards.  A few minutes before we need to line up, I pass out a card to each child.  Then,  I say, "Anyone with 'like' may line up."  "Anyone with 'can' may line up." etc.   It is easy, takes really no extra time at all, and is a great little review.  Sometimes I have one card that says, "I am 1st."  or "You go up 1st."  They love this little extra.  When they line up, they just put the card in the little basket by the door.

It is also great for  number review.  I use LOTS of 12 and 20 cards... (Those are so tricky for my kids!)

For winter,  you can make "snowball" words.  Just write words on pieces of paper and wad them up- ta da- snowballs!  The children love to unwrinkled them and read their word.  Then, they just throw the snowball into the basket  by the door when they line up.  

I found this cute little Halloween Sight Word Spider Game FREEBIE by Klever Kiddos. (How did I miss that on my Spider Freebie post?! )  It looks like a fun little game- but the word cards would also be great for this line up review!  Just print out several copies of the words and use the ones you want.  The great part about these is that black and white ink is perfect for the spiders!  I have my cards on card stock and construction paper.  I should laminate them to last longer. 

 

Click on the picture below to go check out my spider post with lots of Spider FREEBIES I found at TPT!

 



When the children get to be better readers- and if you have a little more time, you can give each child a simple sentence to read- statements, questions, exclamatory sentences.  This is great practice for both reading the words and using expression with different punctuation.  Here are some SIMPLE  "FLASH SENTENCES" that I made using only our Kindergarten Sight Words. (Just click on the picture if you would like them.)  You could copy them and cut them apart, or do whatever you would like with them.  I made strips that I have my kids read sometimes at the end of our reading lesson for fluency. (Not yet this year... but my top group is almost there!)    I also laminated them, cut them into strips,  and have them on a ring with our classroom books for the children to read.

 

 

 

Have a great day!

 

SPIDERS & LOTS of FREEBIES!

**I've updated this post HERE with lots of new freebies!  Sometimes freebies go away and other great ones are posted, so this post has the most up to date freebies!  Enjoy!


 I will share some things I do with my class, then LOTS of FABULOUS spider freebies I found!

 I guess I should start with

It is a sweet book, and I could take a lesson from it...  I know. 

I also, of course, love The Very Busy Spider.

I use this book to remind my children that during center time I am a very busy teacher, working with a group, so non-emergency questions will have to wait until I am done with the group.  If my spider is on my board or table, I am very busy. My friend Betty sent me a precious little spider card that I am using now.  I found this little hexagon spider beanbag to make from Sewing and Beyond. How cute is he?

First Grade Blue Skies has a great Very Busy Spider Beginning, Middle, End Writing Prompt FREEBIE at her TPT store. 

 

One fun thing I have done, is to spray paint a spider web (without the spider in it- of course) and then bring black construction paper up behind the web.  The real web is captured on the paper.  The children love to study a real spider web this way with magnifying glasses! These are a couple webs I have gotten: (No wonder spiders are mad at me.)

We always marble paint with white paint, and add fingerprint spiders with eight legs.

I love to have the children learn to draw spider webs with chalk.  I draw a hexagon or an octagon on a paper with white chalk. (This sample is yellow. My real ones are in school now.  Forgive the yellow web!)  This year I am using hexagons, because we need to teach that shape. I sort of prefer octagons because it looks better and spiders have 8 legs, so it helps to reinforce that.  Either one is fine.

The children get a piece of chalk and draw a dot in the middle of the shape.  Next, I have them draw four circles, each one gradually getting bigger, around their dot.  Last, they connect the dot to one of the vertices.  Ta da !  A perfect web and a great little drawing activity. 

Here is the octagon web. I do like that better.



We use these as workmats with a spider ring.  I have the children practice their positional words with the spider ring.  We put him inside, outside, over, under, above, and below the web.  We put him beside, on top of, underneath, between, in front of, and behind other spiders. 

Cindy Conley made a Spider Position Words Student Reader FREEBIE that would go right along with this beautifully!

There are so many cute spider snacks.  I have always made spiders from a prune and six pretzel sticks.  How mean am I?  Most of the kids haven't even had a prune before. I describe it as a big raisin.  Sort of...   They actually like these.  Really.  

Almost Unschoolers has a tastier looking spider treat-

Sweet Treats and More shows how to make these darling webs on her blog ( and says they are easy... but I have made seen enough Pinterest fails to wonder about that. :)





and of course there are these bad boys that may beat out a prune...

There are lots of non-food spider activities, too, by the way! 

Here is a fun version of the Itsy Bitsy Spider, called the Isty Ditsy Spider (Bitsy's little brother... :)  by the Learning Station!  So much fun for the kids to try with a partner!

Laurie Rupp shared a wonderful Itsy Bitsy Spider Theme Set FREE at her TPT store!

Mom Endeavors shared  this precious spider craft:

Doodle Bugs Teaching shared this adorable Silly Spider Art Pattern.

  KidSparkz FREE Spider Theme Letters would go perfectly with them for a bulletin board.  LOVE those letters!

Guess what? KidSparkz also has Spider Numbers 0-20 and Ten Frames FREE!  So clever!

AND a free Spider Number Matching Game!  KidSparkz is AWESOME!



Look at Lisa Goodell's Spider Web Alphabet Clip Art FREE at her TPT store!  So cute!

Growing in PreK made a great Six Silly Spiders Dice Game FREEBIE! How fun is that?!

Jennifer Hier has a Counting Spiders Emergent Reader FREEBIE that would

be so much fun for this unit! 

Kindergarten Smorgasboard shared these adorable  Spider Web Counting Cards FREEBIES- perfect to use with those spider rings!



K is for Kinderrific has a cute Spider Cut and Match Numbers FREEBIE.

Katie Hess made this  wonderful Ten Frame book FREEBIE at her TPT store that is good for SO many things- dots, dabbers, stickers, fruit loops- even spiders! Thank you, Katie!

 

Jen Jones made a cute little Spider Book FREE that would be fun for the children to illustrate!





 Susan Moran Jones has a GREAT Spider Word Family FREEBIE at her TPT store.

Katie Broome shared a fabulous Spider Facts Booklet FREEBIE at her TPT store.  This is a wonderful non-fiction mini-unit for spiders.



The Kid Zone has lots of spider freebies and is a great site for some non-fiction spider study. You can check out the Kid Zone Spider Activities, the Online spider jigsaw puzzles. and the Itsy Bitsy Spider Book:

It really isn't an oxymoron! You can have fun with spiders.

Have a great week!