Laughing & learning through teachable moments
Take a learning target. Add dice. It feels like a game and adds in a graphing element. I’ve seen many of these “Roll and Write” pages floating around teacherville before, but I couldn’t find one with a “bank” of letters/numbers/sight words/shapes to foster differentiation and independence for morning work or early finisher time or centers [...]
There’s no better way to teach your child the alphabet (or anything?) then making it about them. There’s a reason the letters they often learn first are the ones in their name. It’s all about ME, ME, & MINE. Sound familiar? When my daughters were 4 & 3, I came across “blank books” at a [...]
Prerequisite: Save this activity for when a few of your kids have a good grasp at letters. We had a lot of success with Leapfrog Letter Factory. You could also break up the idea into a bag a day or week. Maybe decorate each bag with some pictures. We left the ABC train out all week and [...]
I want to start by saying, I am not paid by Leapfrog. (Leapfrog, call me:) When my first daughter was toddling, I put some magnetic letters we were given as a gift on the fridge, more out of desperation to actually cook dinner than to teach. I put up the letters in her name (a [...]
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