Sweet & Simple Saturday Post #9

It's the weekend before school starts!! That mean I have been running around like a crazy person!! Good thing this post is so sweet and simple! ;)

Today's freebie is for phonics/spelling. We had oa and ow as a spelling pattern one week last school year so I made this little sentence unscramble to practice our dictation sentence. It's self-explanatory, so I'll just let you head over to grab it now! Click below to get it:

Though I hope to blog WAY more than I did last school year, I will already not be off to a good start because I will not be around much this next week or so. It will be BUSY BUSY BUSY! Hope you have a great week and for those of you going back to school like I am, have a GREAT first day! :)

Sweet & Simple Saturday Post #4

I can't believe this is week 4 of this series already! That means that summer is going by way, way, way, WAY too fast. I haven't even touched my to-do list yet!! Well, mostly because it is still all mental, so technically, I haven't even MADE my to-do list yet. Panic mode just turned on!!

Anywho, today's simple freebie is a phonics/spelling sort for the sounds of suffix /ed/:

The students will cut out the words at the bottom, sort them, and then write a sentence using one of the words. Short and simple. Just click on the picture of the document to download it! 

I hope those of you that teach phonics/spelling in the early grades are able to use this!

Happy Saturday! :)

Wintry Words Freebie and a Free Font!

Happy Sunday!! Hope you are having a great LONG weekend! :) I made a quick little word work center last night and decided to offer it as a freebie to you!

In Wintry Words, students will manipulate letters from winter words to create new words. This is a great opportunity to learn how to look for patterns in words!

You can download it from either shop:

Also, I hope you stopped by last night to check out my font freebie for you!! Here it is, in case you missed it:

I'm super excited to use it! Feel free to grab it and then let me know what you think! Use the font for whatever you like (commercial products, freebies, etc.); just be sure to include a link to my blog! :)

Cool, New Find

I'm sure you have seen these cubes before and it is nothing new to you but since I just jumped back on the primary grade boat, I consider it a fun, new find!!

I picked up these cubes the other day at Mardel because they were fairly cheap and cute/fun. I plan on adding these to our ever-expanding word work activity library. I made the following activity to go along with the cubes. In the following activity, students will roll a blend die, write the blend down, and then write down words that start with that blend.

Students will follow the same procedure for the word family dice (except, of course, the words will not start with what is rolled). 

In this game, students will practice their decoding skills by rolling 1 blend die and 1 word family die to make a word. After reading the word, they will decide if it is real or nonsense and then write it in the appropriate column.

I have added these activities to my Google Docs so that you can use them too! :)

Speaking of which, what is going on Docs now?? When I try to embed a document into a blog post the preview looks all funky and no longer has a hyperlink to the site (even after resizing it). No hyperlink = no way for you to download the file. This does not please me. Anyone else notice this problem?? Am I going to have to go back and fix ALL of the files I have ever embedded so that people are still able to access them??!? >:(

Click here to download the freebie!

Also, don't forget to leave your email to win my newest pack, Odd and Even Numbers! Click on the picture to find the giveaway post.