"Funk"-y Sight Word Game

What do you get when you mix a favorite childhood game and Mrs. Leeby's Fonts!?!  Our new "Funk"-y Sight Word Game!!!

I just ADORE Mrs. Leeby's fonts and her new one called, Leeby's Funk, is my new fav!  You can get the font for free right now on her facebook fan freebie tab.

Our unit includes....
Sight Word Powepoint Game

The students will be given a couple of minutes to look (learn by heart) all the words on the screen trying to remember each one. 

The students will close their eyes!

The students will open their eyes and say or write on a wipe-off board what word is missing.

Use this slide to reveal the answer!  They will LOVE it!!!

Powerpoint with 100 Fry Sight Words

Why do we use this in our classrooms?  We believe MEMORIZING sight words increases our young learners fluency and MOTIVATION to read.  In return, the kiddos have more time to decode words they do not know, which increases their comprehension of the story.

Reading is tough work....purchase this "Funk"-y Sight Word Unit to help inspire your students' love of reading.  Check it out in our TeachersPayTeachers and TeachersNotebook shop!

For a chance to win this "Funk"-y Sight Word Unit....all you have to do is like us on facebook!  We will pick 10 winners this Sunday night.
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We will be adding numbers, shapes, & letters "Funk"-y Powerpoint Units in our TpT & TN shop soon!

Keep on Dancin'
Amber & LuAnn

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We have over 100 educators registered for our session, T-H-E-M-E-S Rock, at the UW~Whitewater Early Childhood Conference.   It is a PASSION of ours to SHARE what we do in our classroom with others.  If you are attending the conference, please stop by and see us.  We LOVE to make new connections with WONDERFUL teachers!    

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 Here is a little TREAT for our Pre-K friends in the blogging world.  You will find this FREEBIE in our TpT and TN Shops.  See pictures below of the "Egg-cellent Number Fun"!      

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Amber & LuAnn

Warm Fuzzies

During the month of February we focus on FRIENDSHIP.  One activity I always enjoy doing with my kiddos is making a "Warm Fuzzy".  This year the students made a "warm fuzzy", drew a classmates name, and completed the sheet explaining why he/she is giving their friend a "warm fuzzy".

The smile on their face while they were giving their "warm fuzzy" to their friend was PRICELESS!

Click {right here} to go to our TpT shop for this freebie!    

 P.S. This gives me WARM FUZZIES all over inside.  LuAnn and I will be presenting at the UW-Whitewater Early Childhood Conference.   

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Thanks Bunches,

Amber

Kinderchaun Unit

You can grab this unit in our TEACHERSNOTEBOOK SHOP
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Don't forget to check out our "A Lucky Find" Activity.

We blogged about it HERE!

It is only $1.50 in our TpT shop & TN shop.   

This has been one of our favorite St. Patrick's Day activities to do with our kiddos!!! 

Irish Blessings, 

Amber & LuAnn

Writing Picture Prompts Freebie

My students need help writing letters neatly on the line....upper and lowercase! I decided to go to TpT and search for a "Letter Formation Unit" from one of the AMAZING~CREATIVE~BRILLANT teacher creators all over TpT and look what I found....for FREE!!!

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I also felt a little creative myself and made this little "Writing Picture Prompt" Unit to use with my kiddos.  This freebie is a great way to improve your students writing & spark some interesting stories through fun picture ideas!

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Happy Writing!
Amber & LuAnn

Sticky Letters & Facebook Fan Freebie

Every word must have a vowel....."shhhhhh"....does not...but my kids have not figured that out yet! HE HE HE

First, I gave each student a magazine or newspaper.  I had the students race to find a word that does not have a vowel.  Remember…”y is sometimes a vowel”!

Next, the students made a word with die cut letters on the worksheet and then colored in if it was a real or nonsense word.   I think the hardest part was gluing the letters the correct way!

Finally, using the words their friends made, the students completed the second worksheet by writing the real and nonsense words in the correct box.   

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We're A-E-I-O-U,
We're the vowels!
We're the glue,
To stick the words together,
We're very sticky letters!

We're very sticky,
very icky, sticky-icky letters!

Thank you and Happy Teaching!
Amber & LuAnn
 

Power Readers

"How do you inspire your students to become Power Readers?"   "You use our PowerPoints in combination with our little readers!"

Here are some pictures of our students having a little sight word fun in our classroom.

As a large group the students are recalling things read about in the book and recording them on the white board.

As an extended activity, the students colored each sight words a different color. 

For added fun, I had the students put their hands on their heads and when I would say a sight word he/she would quickly point to the word in the book.

The "Power Readers" products includes:

PowerPoint Reader to project on your white board

Samples of PowerPoint Reader

Recall & Retell Page

Variety of comprehension & Phonological Awareness Questions

Black line emergent reader to read individually and take home

Our PowerPoint readers include a variety of sight words, color words, & number words.  The students need many opportunities to practice reading high frequency words in context.

After the students have had time to view/read the book in whole group and small group instruction time, you can send the emergent reader home for further reinforcement.  Students are so proud of their new reading skills and will enjoy reading it to their families.

If you are interested in this product you can pick it up in our TpT STORE.  Our units will be in TeachersNotebook soon!

If you're interested in purchasing both packs, you can get the BUNDLE PACKs at a discounted rate in our TpT Store!

Want to see what our Power Readers are all about!?!  We are giving one away for FREE in our TPT shop until Sunday.  
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We love using this product during our whole and small group instruction time, and we hope you will too!

Amber & LuAnn