Easy Peasy Letter & Sight Word Jewels

Easy Peasy Letter & Sight Word Jewels

I love making special gems and jewels to help motivate my students to learn critical skills like letters, letter sounds and sight words (see method here).  But my original method was way too time consuming.  I needed easy peasy. I had a bag of those big sparkly...
Easy DIY Name Center

Easy DIY Name Center

I saw this idea in one of my colleague's rooms and loved it at first sight. It is so simple and super cheap to make.  It is a great letter matching game and the clothespins help build fine motor skills. What you will need: a couple packages of clothespins a sharpie...
Alphabet Play

Alphabet Play

This is a lovely idea I saw in my colleague Kati's classroom.  I had to make one for my class and share it with you. It is easy to set up.  Put the printed pages into page protectors and slip into a binder.  (I have included a cover for the binder.) You will need the...
FREE A-Z Graphs

FREE A-Z Graphs

During August and September – my kindergarten team reviews the alphabet.  I have developed several things for those days.  One is a sign in sheet with two animals that begin with that letter.  I am sharing these graphs with you today!  These are for personal use...
Daily Alphabet Activities with Names

Daily Alphabet Activities with Names

I am posting some of my first alphabet activities of the school year.  In my school, the kindergarten reviews the alphabet one letter a day (we started reviewing today).  Here are some of the things I do: Today we reviewed the letter Aa.   I asked each child,...
Hand Sewing Like the Pilgrims

Hand Sewing Like the Pilgrims

MATERIALS:  To sew with kindergarteners all you need are blunt tipped needles (found in the needlepoint section), burlap fabric, yarn and a marker to write the first initial of the student on the burlap. I used a paint pen to write the letter in white on the dark...