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...
Number Rings

Number Rings

Several teachers in my school have sets of these counting rings.  These are Mrs. Winters.  I love her wooden cube with the number written on it.  The loose leaf rings are large (perhaps 3 inches) with the corresponding number of wooden beads. What a powerful way to...
Patty’s Room: Writing Materials

Patty’s Room: Writing Materials

There is are so many meaningful opportunities for Patty's Pre-k children to write.  Here are a few: Color sorted markers and colored pencils. The writing center materials.  I love the two choices – fat pencil or golf pencil.  These are both developmentally...