Blog Archives - Kaylee's Education Studio

End of the Year Vocabulary Game - Snowball Fight

5/18/2012

I found a great idea for an end of the year vocabulary game called Snowball Fight on the Third Grade Curriculum Blog.

Have your students each choose two pieces of white paper. On one paper they write a word, on the other they write the definition to the word.

Crumple the papers up and have a snowball fight for a set amount of time. The third grade curriculum blog suggested setting a timer for 30 secs.

Once the fight is over everyone has to pick up one of the snowballs and find their partner. I.e. the students who find a word have to locate the definition and the students who find the definition have to find the word.

You can also prepare the words in advance if you want to review certain vocabulary words.

For more great vocabulary games and activities click on the links.

2nd Grade Pirate Word Ladders

5/17/2012

2nd Grade Pirate Word Ladders

My Second Grade - Pirate Word Ladders are finished. These word ladders cover important skills needed in second grade. Like learning contractions, some common prefixes and suffixes like: un, re, ture, s, es, and ies.

They also cover many different word patterns like: r-controlled words, ght, ph, kn, mb, and more. As well as many different vowel patterns.

Not only will these ladders help students to spell the words included, they will help students when trying to decode unfamiliar words that they come across.

You can download a preview of the word ladders below or you can purchase all 40 of them for $3.50.

You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop.

Preview
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Still working . . .

5/15/2012

I'm still working on the 2nd grade Pirate word ladders, I've got 10 of the 40 done but I thought I would release one of them early. See if your kids can climb the ladder to make can not become do. Click on the file below to download the word ladder.

Word Ladder

2nd_grade_pirate_word_ladder_preview.pdf
File Size:	138 kb
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What gets a capital letter?

5/11/2012

I love sharing great ideas that I find on other blogs. This one comes from Zeek's Zoo. Its a great poster that helps students know which letters to capitalize. You can visit Zeek's Zoo and download it for free.

Pirate Word Ladders

5/10/2012

It's been awhile since my last post because I've been working hard on a new product. Pirate Word Ladders.

Word Ladder

In this e-book you will find 40 reproducible Pirate word ladders. These word ladders are a great way for students to analyze words and will help students with decoding as well as spelling.

Using Word Ladders
Students will start at the bottom of the word ladder and use the directions and clues to create new words as they move to the top of each word ladder.

Example
The word ladder starts with the word Jack. The directions tell you to change the first letter and the clue is, “Put your homework in your back______.” The word that you need to make is pack.

You can download a sample pirate word ladder below, and if you like it you might want to consider getting all 40 of them for only $3.50. You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop.

Preview
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Context Clues Poster

5/4/2012

What Vocabulary Program would be complete without teaching students how to use context clues to find a words meaning? I've created a cute poster that you can use to help your students remember to use context clues.

Context Clues Poster

The poster encourages students to look for words that have the same or opposite meaning of the unfamiliar word and things or ideas related to the word. They can also ask themselves "Is the word a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb?" Then after they have thought of all of the clues surrounding the word they then need to prediction the meaning of the word and ask themselves does the sentence now make sense.

Dictionary Detective

5/3/2012

I've got a new page on my website called Dictionary Games and Activities and to celebrate this new page I'm giving a brand new game away free until Monday.

Dictionary Game

Dictionary Detective
To play this game you give students a series of clues and have them search the dictionary to find words that that match all of those clues. They will enjoy trying to find more than one word that matches all of the clues. The file below has 64 different game cards.

You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop.

Frog Affix Matching Center

5/2/2012

Differentiation Station has a great center activity to let students practice their affixes. Students just need to match words with their affix. Check out this blog for this cute free printable.

Dictionary Race

5/2/2012

A challenging word is given and students must race to find out the definition of the word. This can be played as a whole class activity or you can prepare pre-made word lists for groups to play with. You can divide the class into teams and have them race around on a tract. With this approach it might take several games to have someone reach the end. This might also be an exciting way to introduce vocabulary words to a class. There are many other vocabulary games to play in your classroom on my vocabulary games page.

Racetrack
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File Type:	pdf

Prefix Tree

5/1/2012

This is a great idea that I found on theDandelions and Dragonflies blog. She has a template for the trunk that you can download and use. The idea is pretty simple, each trunk has either a root, suffix, or prefix on it and the leaves are all the words that you can make with those roots/affixes.