Using crafts to create memorable phonics lessons.

 

Hello, Teacher!  I just wanted to take you through a few ideas for using crafts in your phonics lessons. 

I believe that crafts make learning memorable and also provides a visual guide to reinforce their learning or just to look back on. Because of this I have spent a lot of time making fun phonics crafts to fulfil this purpose.

Crafts can be used to group together a skill- such as these word family crafts which allow learners to consolidate their learning as well as have something to take home to show their adults the new word they have learned to read! 

These crafts can be used in several ways- as a simple coloring activity which will become a reference for students up to a more student led activity where they can choose their own words to draw and write in. Students can use these activities alongside worksheets or readers where they can identify relevant words to add to their crafts. 

We have a wide range of phonics crafts covering a variety of different skills that are sure to make your phonics lessons unforgettable. Click the picture below to see the full range!

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What's your favorite craft that you have done with your learners?

5 simple St. Patrick's Day activities

 

Hello Teachers! Hope you're having a lovely day. It's that time of year again when everything is fresh and green so I thought I'd take a moment to highlight a few cute St. Patrick's Day Favorites! 

1. St. Patrick's Day Parts of Speech

Don't know much about St. Patrick's Day? Your students can learn the history and traditions while practicing identifying nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs with this pack. You can build a whole lesson or two with this- plenty of variety of activities ready to print and go.

2. St. Patrick's Day common core math color by codes

Student's always need extra make practice- these codes combine a variety of math skills- some artistic skills and St. Patrick's spirit into your math practice.

Kindergarten codes included in our Spring pack here.

1st grade codes are available here.

2nd grade codes are right here.

3. Build a Leprechaun Village

This activity has been a favorite of mine for years- students can work together to build a St. Patrick's Village full of cute whimsical cottages. 

These make awesome classroom decor which your students will be proud of.

4. St. Patrick's Day Spot the Differences

Though there's multiple ways to use these cute pictures- I think they work best as warmers. They get students thinking, talking and excited about the holiday! 

5. St. Patrick's Day Phonics crafts

Practice a range of phonics skills with these bright activities. Skills practiced include Vowel Teams, Beginning Blends, CVC words and more. The crafts are one page only per student and super simple to create! 

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We hope you found something that your learners will love here! 

Wishing you a happy St. Patrick's Day and don't forget to wear green! :)

5 fun Valentine's Day activities- no preparation needed!

 Sending you all some love this Valentine's Day! What a busy time of year and to make your lives a little easier and to help you feel the love, we're bringing 5 no prep, ready to go Valentine's Day teaching activities to warm your student's hearts this February. This selection includes Language Arts and Math practice for a variety of levels and age groups! Click the pictures to check them out and use them today. 

1. Valentine's Day Parts of Speech

Make reviewing nouns, verbs, adjective, adverbs and more fun with this parts of speech pack! Your students will love our color by codes, word searches, mad libs and word sort to broaden their vocabularies and get some extra grammar practice! 

2. Valentine's Numbers 1 to 10 counting worksheets

For Kindergartners and Pre-schoolers looking for some cute counting practice activities- this pack is so much more. There's coloring and cut and paste activities to build fine motor skills too! 

3. Valentine's Day common core math color by codes

For a variety of practice- we've got you covered. This pack includes place value, addition/ subtraction and more. We have two versions first grade math and second grade math versions to challenge all your learners.

4. Valentine's Day Spot the Difference

These adorable visual perception puzzles are much loved by all of our students! They work well as warmers, small group activities or for speech therapy- they are sure to keep your learners talking! There are 10 Valentine's scenes with 5 differences per picture! 

5. Valentine's Day Phonics Crafts

We're very proud of this resource and the 6 cute phonics crafts it contains- skills practiced include CVC words, blends, double consonants, ending blends and more. With sweet Valentine's themed vocabulary and adorable pictures, your learners are certain to enjoy making these.

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We hope you enjoy these 5 activities and have a wonderful and productive Valentine's Day.

Which activity is your favorite? 

We look forward to your feedback and we'll speak pretty soon in our next blog post!

Take care and have a sweet Valentine's Day.

A cute place value freebie for your classroom :)

If you're looking for a fun and free way to brighten up your math classroom, I have the solution! This cute freebie will be loved by your visual learners. As a cute, artistic math practice it will create a cute teddy bear to decorate your bulletin board or be brought home by your learners.

Included are two versions- for 2 digit numbers or 3 digit numbers. They are one page per student to cut down on printing.

This freebie also includes a cute color by code to complement the teddy bear craft. This worksheet practices adding/subtracting 1 & 10 to 2 digit numbers or adding/subtracting 10 & 100 to 3 digit numbers.

The activity is very easy to introduce and simple for students to follow! 

About this product:

• No preparation required- print and go
• Black and white so your students can have fun coloring them in.
• Examples and tips pages showing final products
• The craft will look great displayed in your classroom/on bulletin boards
• The code is great for review, fast finishers, math centers, homework, sub tub, distance learning and independent practice.

If you're looking for more similar practice we've got you covered with these 15 cute seasonal crafts. These are super simple and ready to go. Click the picture below to check them out!

We also have a pack of 12 codes to practice various skills- odd//even numbers, 100 charts, adding 10/100 to numbers, skip counting and more. Click below to check it out:

 Click the picture below to get the freebie now from our TPT store! Ready to use in your classroom today!

Sight Words Crafts- fun, editable crafts!

We're really excited about this new addition to our tPt store as it's our first time doing something like this! Our new sight word activities give power to teachers to really personalize our crafts and adapt them to fit exactly what their learners need to practice. Without further adieu, I introduce you to these  new crafts that your students are bound to love:

This pack comes with several pre-made worksheets for each craft, that are completely ready to go with no preparation necessary as well as templates that are easy to edit and adapt to fit your chosen sight words.

I've included different versions of the templates to allow educators to personalize these in any way that is comfortable for them- PDF, PNG and editable PowerPoint files! Quickly make these crafts and have them ready for your students to make today! :)

About these crafts:

• Black and white so your students can have fun coloring them in.
• Easy to follow. Examples included showing final product
• Use supplies that you already have in your classroom (colored pencils, scissors and glue).
• Require very little preparation.
• All crafts require one A4 page per student to cut down on printing!
• Includes blank versions for your students to write their own words or for you to edit!
• Make beautiful additions to bulletin boards

Our Winter Sight Word crafts and Spring Sight Words crafts are available now! Click the images below to get these now :)

Coming soon:

SUMMER SIGHT WORDS CRAFTS: coming by April 2024

SIGHT WORDS VARIETY PACK: coming by May 2024

FALL SIGHT WORDS CRAFTS: coming by June 2024

Ramadan and Eid color by numbers and number sense

Some time ago, while I was first browsing through TpT I found a sea of resources for holidays. Easter, Christmas, Halloween, St. Patrick's Day and Valentines Day are heavily represented and well-prepared for. This seemed great- a variety of ideas and materials worth celebrating with! 

When searching for Islamic holidays however I was shocked to find very few Ramadan and Eid-al-Fitr resources in the sea of holiday-related resources. As a teacher of a Muslim majority class I was a little sad as I want as much variety as possible in my classroom and to be as inclusive as possible to all my students! As Ramadan is set to start next week, I'm excited to celebrate with them every step of the way! 

For this purpose I've created a variety of mathematics and ELA related resources to help celebrate! These have been fun to create and I'm hoping they brighten this holiday even more for students! 

Today, I want to share a very cute color-by-code type activity that even I was excited to color! The colors are bright and cute and the result is adorable- well worth the hard work of solving the code and coloring it! It's suitable for practicing during the 30-day fasting season of Ramadan and also for celebrating duing Eid-al-Fitr which falls at the end of the fasting month.

These codes come with 6 different pictures, all of which I find completely adorable! I've created 4 versions of each practicing different skills.

The four versions are:

• -numbers 1-10
• -numbers 11-20
• -number sense 1-10
• -number sense 11-20

The number sense pictures basically use a variety of different objects and symbols to represent the numbers- including the written form, blocks, tally marks and stars. This allows a greater variety of practice and more opportunities to challenge your students! 

These were incredibly fun to make and even more fun to color! I truly hope your students will enjoy these! Happy Teaching and Eid Mubarak! 

Get your copy HERE.

Build a town with 20 places

I'm very excited to finally share this. After having devoted the past 8 years to creating teaching resources, finally this is my first ever product on Teachers Pay Teachers! I never imagined that I would do this but well, 2020 is the year of doing unexpected things!

And I'm so happy that this is my very first!

So, please allow me to introduce my town! 

In this town we have everything you can imagine from a hospital to a flower shop, a zoo and a cinema. In total, this town has 20 different places to make and visit.   

So come this way, let's explore the town. 

And exploring this town has been a joy for myself and my students. Learning prepositions? Easy, students can arrange the town however they like. You can give the instructions (the cinema is next to the zoo) and they can rearrange their buildings! They can describe to each other or look at their town and write their descriptions! 

Giving directions? Throw in some toy cars or figurines and the kids are fully immersed in learning!  

The pack comes with full color, ready to print places as well as the same 20 buildings in black and white for your students to color! The buildings are very easy to make- all you need is scissors and glue and you're ready to go.

The best part is the town is theirs! This town even has room to grow where your kids can make their own buildings and arrange their own streets. My kids adored working together to color in their own buildings, adding their own favorite shops and designing their own town. 

Of course this town is a suitable activity for your kids to make at home or in a classroom. I hope they'll love this town as much as mine did. You can find the resources HERE.

Happy teaching!