Popcorn Sight Words

I found these cute as can be Popcorn containers for only $1 at Deal$!! What a great motivator to encourage students to practice their sight words. A few days later I saw the post over at Kindergarten Whale Tales, where you can get a free game of Popcorn Sight Words! This was such great timing, now I have a game to play with my kinders that they love and think is fun, while they are practicing sight words! Plus it matches our bulletin board, bonus! Click the link to go to the blog and get your own Popcorn game.

http://kindergartenwhaletales.blogspot.com/2011/05/dollar-well-spent.html

Graphing Names by Syllables

Today we were introduced to syllable counting. We clapped out syllables in lots of words, wrote them on the board with boxes around each syllable, and then we each clapped and counted the syllables in our own name. Next we took our name card and placed it on the graph in our pocket chart. Since we are also working on our number words as sight words we graphed them underneath the number word representing how many syllables we had in our name. Two syllables was the obvious winner for our class this year.

Buddy Reading

On Friday our Kindergarteners had a special treat from the 3rd graders. They came down to our classroom to buddy read with us! We all had lots of fun hearing some Dr.Seuss stories read to us by the big kids. Thank you to Mrs. Armeni and her class for sharing your time and talents with us!