Making Sentences With Sight Words

Time to start prepping materials for the new school year, right?! I have been busy making a few things here and there and printing/laminating. I've been trying to finish up all of the abandoned projects I have, too, such as this one below:

I've had this activity for a while and even used it in my classroom for a few months. I wanted to give it a makeover before I shared it with you all because when I prepared the activity for my class I literally threw it together in about 10 minutes late one night! It just needed a little facelift! I finally sat down last night and got it all finished!

Simple game--students will use sight word cards to make sentences. Then, they write their sentence using a marker for the sight words used. On the lower level recording sheet, students will illustrate the sentence. Last year, one of my kids actually suggested that I make this game so of course I had to make it for him! :)  Here is a little preview: 

I plan on using this activity as a Word Work station in Daily 5. You can check out the activity by clicking below:

Sight Word SWAT Part 2 and SUPER SUPER GIVEAWAY! :)

I posted about playing Sight Word SWAT with my students the other day. We played again today and I made it a point to get some more pictures to share with you!

Check out my collection (including the new swatters from Wal-Mart).

Some of our sight words. They are a tad worn away.

Eager beavers ready to play!!! 

Action shot!

Also, have you seen my latest giveaway?!? The prize is HUUUUUGE (literally--it's 353 pages)!!

You can win a free copy of this pack by completing a few very simple steps! Click here to head over to the post to enter! Good luck! :)

Sight Word SWAT!

I'm stopping by this evening to show you a super fun game we played yesterday--Sight Word SWAT!! I apologize in advance for the lack of more detailed pictures but I was caught up in all of the excitement going on!

I found myself with a small group of hard workers (half of my class was at computer lab), 20 minutes, and warm weather yesterday, so we headed out to our porch for a little springtime game that I have been wanting to play. We use Saxon Phonics and with it comes sight word cards. I distributed several cards to each student and had them read the words and write them on the sidewalk (which was fun enough for them). They were instructed to write them big enough to be seen and in their neatest handwriting.

At this point, they had no idea what would happen next and didn't even question why I was holding a small tub full of flyswatters (shows how normal it is for me to be holding something odd, haha). The game was simple--I called up 2 students at a time and called out a sight word. They had to race to find the word and then SWAT it!

 The first one to swat the word won the round and got to stay in while the other student had to sit back down. A new student took his place and we did it again! To say they had a blast would be an UNDERSTATEMENT! I couldn't even take many pictures because I was so involved in how involved they were!

When we finally went back inside they had SO many questions!:

"Did you make up that game???!"

"Did you play that game with your 4th graders???!"

"Are we going to play that again???!"

"When are we going to play that again???!"

Love it. Walmart has super cute swatters out for $1 right now! I bought 10 new ones last weekend. Pics to come.

This game can be used for sight words, math facts, number recognition, shapes, etc. Give it a try!

Eggy Math and Literacy!

Hey, hey! Hope you are having a great week so far! I wanted to share an eggs-citing new product with you! ;) Over the weekend, I bust out the plastic Easter eggs and got to thinking what fun, new thing I could do with them. Here is what I came up with:

I tried out the sight word games with my students today and they were a big hit! I plan on using some of the math ones tomorrow.

The pack includes practice for:

-sight words from Pre-Primer, Primer, 1st grade, and 2nd grade Dolch word lists

-number words

-color words

-vowel sounds

-basic addition

-basic subtraction

-subitizing

-number recognition

I would LOVE for you to check the pack in my store!

As always, I would love to give out some freebies! Comment with your name and email and I will randomly choose 3 winners tomorrow.
The winners have been chosen! Thanks for entering!

MORE Writing Freebies!

Happy Saturday evening!!

I hope you had a chance to comment and win a FREE copy of my Magic e Activity Pack! If not, click here to head on over to the post.

Speaking of free, I have some freebie writing activities to share with you. You may recall this Finger Spacing Sort I posted a few months ago. Well, I created one just like it when we introduced capital letters at the beginning of sentences. It was a nice and quick assessment of their understanding. Grab your copy below!

Also, I made a Personal Word Wall to go into our Writer's Notebooks. The students will add names and other words that they frequently use. It serves as a quick reference for them. (My students were very excited about this, by the way! So excited that we now have to go back and reinforce the importance of spelling the words correctly when you add them to the page!) :) You can grab a copy of this as well! It is meant to be copied front-to-back and then hole-punched, so I adjusted the margins accordingly.

Oh, and don't forget about the TN sale and the TPT sale!! You can save all sorts of money! And my shops are both 20% off! :)