CVC Sound Boxes

CVC Sound Boxes

This is a great tool for building phonemic awareness.  You use this just like the chips and Elkonin sound boxes where each box represents one phoneme.  In this method, you have the child touch the green for the first sound, the yellow for the middle sound and the red...
A Handwriting Helper

A Handwriting Helper

This is an idea that comes from one of my interns this year, Tracy.  She saw it in another classroom.   I could not find anything about it online so I just had to make my own poster.  When you begin teaching handwriting on the “lines” this is such a...
FREE Three Bears Sight Word Download

FREE Three Bears Sight Word Download

This is a sight word recognition set I created for the classic fairy tale, “The Three Bears.”  I have a set for each of the major kindergarten fairy tales.  I like this format because it honors the various levels the children are at:   For the pre-emergent...
Free Number Posters Download!

Free Number Posters Download!

I absolutely loved this number frieze I saw in a first grade classroom in Switzerland.  I have made a version for myself.  I wanted to share it with you!  What I love about this number line is how it relates the number to something concrete that occurs naturally.   I...