The pre-primer ghosts vs. vampires is now up for sale. For those of you who liked the game I now have a primer, first grade and second version of the game. All of these versions will be available for free until Wednesday.
Here's a new sight word file folder game just in time for Halloween. Ghosts vs. Vampires. Ghosts and vampires fight to see who is the scariest monster.
Students play by taking turns drawing sight word cards. If they can read the word they get to put the card on their game board. There are also boo and bat cards that help to make the game more interesting. The sight words in this game are the ones from the Dolch pre-primer list. The game will be available for free until Monday. You can find more great sight words games on my teaching sight words page and at the websites shop. | |
Dolch second grade sight word worksheets are here. These worksheets are a little more challenging then the ones for first grade and kindergarten. Students can color and write the words but they can also practice spelling them by covering and spelling the word, picking the correct spelling, and hunting for the word in a string of letters.
The worksheets will be available free to download until Friday when they will go up for sale. You can also check out many other great ideas to teach sight words on my teaching sight words page, or at the websites shop. | |
I've got a new sight word game for the Dolch Pre-primer list, Peacock sight words.
In this game kids get to practice their sight words by putting feathers on a peacock. Each feather has a letter on it so students can spell out their sight word.
The words included in this game are the Dolch Pre-primer words minus any one letter and two letter words.
The game will be available for free until Saturday so come and download yours quickly. I'm also planning and making Peacock sight word games for the Primer and First grade lists so stay tuned.
There are many more sight word game ideas on my
teaching sight words page. You can also visit my
shop to buy other great products.
So it looks like my summer is over. I got my first subbing call this year, and oh my goodness what a day it was. A class of 29 kindergartners, not even past their 2nd week in school. So not only do they not have the classroom routines down yet they basic school behavior down yet. One of the ELL students kept on trying to leave the room during class.
Luckily, I had some great para's in the room with me and a well written and detailed sub plan.
But Wow. There really shouldn't be that many kindergartners in one room.
Also, I had a request to make a set of First grade sight words from the Dolch Sight Word list. As always the first few days of its release I give my creations away for free. I do this in order to reward those who follow my blog either through facebook, pinterest, twitter, or the RSS feed. If you like this worksheets and need some for kindergarten you can go to my
teaching sight words page to find more sets of worksheets.
The worksheets will be available for free until tomorrow, so come and download them quickly. The free give away is over.
You can now purchase these worksheets for $2.75 at the shop.
The spy pigs sight word game is finally complete. In this game you give students one Spy-pig to decorate. Tell students that there are 5 different types of items that they can use to disguise their spy pig: Shirts, pants, sunglasses, hats, or other accessory.
Each of these categories has 20 sight words that students have to learn. So if a student can correctly read all 20 sight words within a minute they can choose something for their spy pig to wear.
If they wish to change what there spy pig is wearing they have to again demonstrate their mastery of the word list.
Or you can have them play this version as a way to practice sight words in a reading center:
Students take turns drawing a card. When they read the word correctly they get to keep the card. If they get three of the same kind (i.e. if they get three cards with sunglasses on them) they can choose something to put on their spy pig. They can also place something on their spy pig when they draw a Choose a ______, card.
In this type of game, you don't need to have students compete to win, they can just play to show off their style and creativity.
This game will be available for free until Friday when it will become available for purchase. The payed for version will also have black and white pages that your students will be able to color in themselves. (Plus you won't have to use all of your colored ink.)
The version of this game contains the words from Fry's sight word list 201-300. Other versions of this game including ones for the Dolch word lists will be coming out shortly.
The free give away of this game is now over. You can purchase this game for Fry's Word List 1-100, 101-200, 201-300, or 301-400 on my new
Spy Pigs page. Each game is only $1.50.
I've been working on a new game for
practicing sight words. I'm so excited because its coming out soo stinking cute.
| | The new game is going to be called Spy Pigs. (kinda a pun off of the Spy Kids) The idea is that students will have a set of flash cards of the sight words that they are working on. Of course, simply going through sight word flash cards can get old very quickly. So to get my (and your) students more motivated to study there words I came up with this game.
When your kids get through different sets of their sight word flash cards they will get to choose a piece of clothing or spy accessory to put on their spy pig. Different types of accessories will have different sight words associated with them. So if they want their spy pig to wear a different type of sunglasses they need to go through the sunglasses flash cards.
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When they have gone through and finished decorating their spy pig then the spy pigs can be put in a cute display. This activity can also be used for any other subject that you need to use flash cards for. So it's a very versatile game.
I've almost finished making all of the pieces for the game. I still want to come up with a few more tops and a set of different watches. I've also been toying with the idea of also having them choose a spy car for the pigs but that might just double what I have to do for this game.
The first few days after I finish it I will be releasing it for free. So if you want to be alerted when it comes available subscribe to my blog or follow me on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest.
Tell me what you think of the upcoming game. I'd love to hear your comments.
