Short and Long Vowel Jeopardy                     My kids have so much fun playing jeopardy and it gives me a wealth of knowledge of the w...

We have been working on our fact fluency for the past few weeks.  I was trying to come up with a catchy song to practice the facts each day....

In celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday we have been doing a special activity at the end of each day.  If students are good all day and...

Reading: Foundational Skills 3 b c Each week my students get a new poem to add to their poetry notebook.  We sing the poem/song throughout t...

Update: I currently have a circus theme in my classroom, I have been calling sight words popcorn words and explaining how they pop up all t...

Update: I have created a vowel pattern mega packet to help teach these to kindergarten through 2nd graders.  The packet includes posters, j...

My kids had so much fun coming up with the clues for bossy r words.  I gave them each a half sheet of paper that had a bossy r word written...