"Teaching is the profession that creates all others."
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Hooked on Phonics Game
Yesterday I created a new reading game to help my daughter work on her Hooked on Phonics
. First we made these cards. Go here to create your own cards with the same look. I made about 4 different pages, cut them out and laminated them with our own little laminator
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Next I printed and laminated a game board. There are tons of them out there. Here are a few examples:
Car Race Board
Fall Game Board
Bees and honeycomb printable board game
We used a penny and a nickel as our game pieces and stacked the cards face down.
Here is how we played.
- On your turn grab the top card and read it. Roll a die and move your piece.
Pretty simple right? But it worked. My daughter hasn't been very cooperative reading her words out of her workbook lately but since it was part of a reading game she had no problem with it. By the way my daughter is 4.5 and is working out of the first grade hooked on phonics books. I've been slowing down with her lately because she has shown some resistance and I don't want her to have a negative experience.
. First we made these cards. Go here to create your own cards with the same look. I made about 4 different pages, cut them out and laminated them with our own little laminator. Next I printed and laminated a game board. There are tons of them out there. Here are a few examples:
Car Race Board
Fall Game Board
Bees and honeycomb printable board game
We used a penny and a nickel as our game pieces and stacked the cards face down.
Here is how we played.
- On your turn grab the top card and read it. Roll a die and move your piece.
Pretty simple right? But it worked. My daughter hasn't been very cooperative reading her words out of her workbook lately but since it was part of a reading game she had no problem with it. By the way my daughter is 4.5 and is working out of the first grade hooked on phonics books. I've been slowing down with her lately because she has shown some resistance and I don't want her to have a negative experience.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Love this poem!
I Took His Hand and Followed
Mrs. Roy L. Peifer
Mrs. Roy L. Peifer
My dishes went unwashed today,
I didn't make the bed,
I took his hand and followed
Where his eager footsteps led.
Oh yes, we went adventuring,
My little son and I...
Exploring all the great outdoors
Beneath the summer sky
We waded in a crystal stream,
We wandered through a wood...
My kitchen wasn't swept today
But life was gay and good.
We found a cool, sun-dappled glade
And now my small son knows
How Mother Bunny hides her nest,
Where jack-in-the-pulpit grows.
We watched a robin feed her young,
We climbed a sunlit hill...
Saw cloud-sheep scamper through the sky,
We plucked a daffodil.
That my house was neglected,
That I didn't brush the stairs,
In twenty years, no one on earth
Will know, or even care.
But that I've helped my little boy
To noble manhood grow,
In twenty years, the whole wide world
May look and see and know.
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