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3 all-time best games to play with sight words
What games do you play with sight words? Sight words are words that we all need to be able to read quickly and automatically in order to be strong readers, ...
Hidden Pictures: lunchbox notes
Halloween is over, so our joke notes are pushed to the wayside. Our wordless riddles are taking a break, and the troops are ready for some serious lunchtime fun before ...
words 3 ways: learning sight words for kindergarten
Cora is totally into learning how to read, so I am seriously running with it. She wants to practice the sight words that were included in her kindergarten packet. She ...
best of teach mama countdown: #2 — spelling words
Yay! We’re getting down to the wire with this teach mama top 10 all-time best countdown! This post is one that I have shared probably more than times than any ...
best of teach mama countdown: #9 — building words, names
This post, which rolls in at #9, continues to surprise me with the amount of hits it gets. Maybe it’s the title: word building, name building (and crossing the line). ...
back-to-school shopping with three crazy-cool kids
After our crazy-successful Smart Summer Challenge, I needed a little week-long offline vay-cay to say the least! Our Smart Summer Challenge was a smashing success (woo-hoo!), but blogging daily for ...
a fish out of water: games to practice sight words
Owen and I had to play a few extra games of Go Fish! this week to celebrate the Water Fun we’ve got on our calendar for the Smart Summer Challenge, ...
breakfast time reading: cereal boxes and more
It all started with Gorilla Munch, and it ended with a ton of reading about adopting gorillas, thanks to a box of cereal and three curious kids. Sure, we’re doing ...
wiggly words: wild, crazy practice with spelling and sight words
We’re always trying to mix things up over here–get a little crazy, even–when it comes to playing with those spelling and sight words. So before Maddy’s long i spelling test ...
new for us friday: springtime love notes
Now that spring is officially here, it’s time for new Springtime Lunchbox Love Notes! This New For Us Friday is super easy and very simple, but it’s something that both ...
read a word, build a snowman
We have had a ton of snow dropped on us in the last two days; clearly, my kiddos have snow on the brain. So I knew that if I wanted ...
