CVC builder Hot dogs dramatic play easy booklet

VC included. Vowel Consonant and CVC is very common, and VC is sometimes overlooked. The capital /I/ can be very tricky for some emergent readers. They learn that the capital I, says it’s name when it is on its own, sometimes when they see it next to another letter, like at the beginning of a sentence, it can create some confusion. ( The capital letters A and I, can be used to make words like: In, It, If, An, At.

Practice building CVC and VC words, quick set-up, and super fun

This booklet-style setup creates an easy and organized way to play and store this fun CVC and VC resource for students and teachers. Dramatic play with educational games has been a huge hit in my classroom. Kids love to play and they are learning at the same time.

Customize to Fit Your Needs

The back page is larger and has the barbecue grill image on it. This creates a fun playing surface to lay out all the vowel hotdogs on.

The top half is left open with enough space to attach a small snack-size recloseable bag. This is a great option for storing all the pieces that go with this dramatic games-style teaching resource. Sight word condiments and vowel hotdogs.

The bottom half of this resource can be printed double-sided and attached to the grill with rings or a binding machine. This lays out nicely and removes some of the reversal issues.

VC Vowel Consonant – Closed Syllable Pattern

VC included. CVC is very common, and VC is sometimes overlooked. The capital /I/ can be very tricky for some emergent readers. Letter I, and A, are examples of an open syllable vowel.

They learn that the capital I, says it’s name when it is on its own, sometimes when they see it next to another letter, like at the beginning of a sentence, it can create some confusion. ( The capital letters A and I, can be used to make words like: In, It, If, An, At. Now they changed into closed syllable vowels.

Sight Words

Sight words – Tricky non-decodable words are included: said, of, the, his, all, is, do, was, are, what, as, have, too.

The sight words are grouped by color to make teaching a little easier. All the yellow mustard words have the letter s that makes the /z/ sound: his, is, was, as, has. ( I call these the sleeping snake words. He falls asleep and snores zzz…. sometimes)

R-Controlled

All of the consonant buns should make decodable words. The letter r, is not included as an ending letter. This is not the time to teach bossy r-controlled words. This is purely for early sound-letter decoding.

Tricky – Y

The letter y, is only in the first position making the correct sound. This is not the time to teach digraphs ay, ey, oy, uy, gym, or eye. All those fun words will come later. As well as words ending with w, aw, ow, ew, should be taught later.

Here is a fun game for short o sounds with /wa/Candyland-style Fruitland.

The CVC Hot Dog builder can be found on my TPT site.

You may also like the CVC sandwich builder or the matching blends. The PB&J’s progress to the digraphs and vowel teams.

Tips for setting up the grill.

Print the grill back page on full-sized 8.5×11 paper.

Print the hot dog vowels, single-sided, 2 to a page.

Print the Bun Consonants, double-sided, 2 to a page.
Use a piece of cardstock or scrap of laminated paper inside of the sandwich bag to make it ridged and strong enough to punch holes through.

Snack-sized reclosable bag attached with a binding machine. Pure Joy Teaching

This booklet was created with the smaller half-page grill, attached on the long side. But it could be set up with a larger full-page-sized grill. Very easy to customize to your classroom needs.

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CVC Uno game for Emergent Readers

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Remote Learning with Google slides

Great way to teach remotely or in class with a large display cast to the classroom TV or student Chrome books.

We have been using small laminated letters in class, but it can be a struggle to find all the letters and keep them sorted. Now that I have these Google slides my lessons can be saved and sorted out quickly.

I have them sorted by the vowels. This one is the letter /e/ the vowels are red. It includes long, short, and vowel combinations like:

Silent e, ey, y that says “e”, er, ed, pre, re, ei, ei, ee, ea, e_e,

Prefixes and suffixes (pre, re, er, ed) with whole word tiles.

The first slide is color-coded for younger students. This is a neat way to help them with sorting out the line place for the letters and to aid them in making the left-to-right reading connection. Green for go, Yellow in the middle, Red stop. This is the direction of reading and writing. * The teacher can choose any of the letters the student will need before the slide is sent to the student. This slide is a good one for CVC words or small 2 & 3-letter words.

This slide is for the small 2 letter words that make the long e sounds.

Great for open syllable words: Words like he, we, be, me, & 3 letters she.

* Notice here that the /sh/ tile is one box to drag and drop. This is to help students make the phonics connection that /sh/ is one sound digraph and NOT two separate sounds /s/h/.

Link HERE

If you like these slides and think they will work in your classroom or remote learning world, you can get them from my shop at TPT. TeachersPayTeachers.

Awesome Alphabet Poems

the perfect book for young learners! This colorful, interactive resource is designed to teach preschool and kindergarten children the correct starting and stopping points of lowercase letters, making it a fantastic tool for early literacy development.

Awesome Animal Alphabet Poems: A Fun and Engaging Learning Adventure

Welcome to Awesome Animal Alphabet Poems—the perfect book for young learners! This colorful, interactive resource is designed to teach preschool and kindergarten children. Practicing the correct starting and stopping points of lowercase letters, makes it a fantastic tool for early literacy development.

Animal Theme

Each page features fun, animal-themed poems that guide children step-by-step as they trace the letters with their fingers. With clear starting points marked by a green dot and arrows that direct the movements, little learners can easily follow the animal actions while mastering each letter.

Find Cards HERE

b sounds Ben, bear, blueberry, buzzing bees

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Why You’ll Love This Book:

Engaging & Fun: Simple rhymes and vibrant illustrations captivate children’s attention and make learning the alphabet an enjoyable experience.
Kinesthetic Learning: The finger-tracing activity helps build muscle memory, promoting better letter recognition and laying the foundation for handwriting skills.
Memorable Rhymes: Easy-to-remember sayings help children recall the movements of each letter, supporting both reading and writing success.
Perfect for Home or School: Ideal for classroom activities or at-home learning, this book is designed to nurture early literacy skills in a way that sparks curiosity about animals and the world around them.
Builds Confidence: With every turn of the page, children will gain confidence in their letter-writing abilities, setting them up for future success in handwriting and reading.
Letter Sounds: Poems use words that tie into the main letter sound. Letter sounds are extremely important for reading and decoding skills.

From A to Z, Awesome Animal Alphabet Poems is a fun, effective, and memorable way to help children discover the world of letters through animals, movement, and rhymes. Whether in the classroom or at home, this book is sure to be a favorite for young learners as they begin their journey toward literacy!

Handwriting

Air Writing ABC Book

Download and print the flashcards for this book. Teachers Pay Teachers

For play-based learning; with Air Writing

Students can pretend to be an airplane, and mirror the letter movements of the teacher. This exercise can help them learn the correct starting and stopping points of the capital letters. The helpful green dot shows the starting point of the letter, with numbered steps for letters that have more than one step. Valuable teacher instruction pages and Flash Card pages that can be cut out of the book to use in class. The reversed alphabet chart on the back cover of this book, helps to remind the teacher in which direction to make the letters. Very helpful when the book or the card is facing the students.

Mirror image; Why does it look backwards?

Remember my right is your left, when we are facing each other. This book will help teachers so the students will NOT be seeing the reversed Image by mistake. It can aid and support future handwriting success, while learning feels like play.

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Read Write and Paint in classroom

After reading we talked about ways that we might paint like the pets in the story.

The kids in room 6, really enjoyed the story this week.

Based on the Book If A Pig Could Paint

When the pig hides the paints from the other pets, one little girl said, “I see them hiding in the hay.”

The class did not think the pig would share the paints.

Brainstorming in ideas

After reading we talked about ways that we might paint like the pets in the story. Next week they will make story bubbles and write sentences based on the book.

I can hardly wait to see the art.

Links to the downloads HERE.

And find book Here.

This children’s book features animals creating paintings, with some of their artworks resembling true masterpieces. It was thrilling to discover how many of the great artists were familiar to the young readers!

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Munch Math Match with Waffles

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For letter of the week W. Waffle Math Match, based on the book –

When Walruses Want Waffles, By D Passmore.

Waffle Math Match can be used in lots of ways:

Play it like “Go Fish” each player would have their own walrus to feed the matched waffles to.

Play it like “Memory Game” each player would have their own walrus to feed the matched waffles to.

One on One with the teacher, Match the numbers, and feed the walrus the matched sets.

Use addition, Subtraction, and Equals symbols to work out math equations.

Roll a die, and match the numbers to the waffles until they are all feed to the walrus.

For W letter of week lessons, you may also like the waffle letters.

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Find the book on Amazon, the book is filled with a whole lot of “W” words :

Wheelbarrow, wall, whale, wobble, waiter, wardrobe, washroom, whip cream, world, water, waves, winner, wrestle, wishing well, wishes, wasps,…

And there are lots of true facts about walruses at the back of the book.

Different ways to Use Flashcards

There are lots of ways to use flashcards in the classroom.

Hook them together: a small little hole punched in the corner of each one will keep them together, & make them easier to flip. * I love to hang my flashcards right next to my circle time chair. The flashcards add to the decor of the room instead of creating clutter on my shelf.
Dry Erase: Some cards need to be laminated first, but Dry Erase pens are great for tracing and circling counted items. This works well at the writing table and can easily be put on a tray as a choose your own activity on the math shelf.

The mnemonic abcs & handwriting cards are very useful cards to link together.

Take a look below or jump to my Teachers Pays Teachers site

Alphabet Poems Trace & Learn Letter Formation Cards: Awesome Animals ABC

Mnemonic Alphabet cards Lowercase letters with pictures a-z short vowels

Air Writing Flash Cards with Teacher directions

Try my starfish count and clip cards at my shop.

or my heart cards Here.

Teaching with Letter of week creation facts is fun

In my preschool classroom, we use letter-of-the-week items. I try to include many real creation facts in the week. This has had an amazing result on the students. Many parents are surprised at the new thing their kids are interested in.

One example is the letter O for octopus.

Octopus lives in the ocean, has 8 arms, and squits ink. Cool right!

I have grouped together a book, counting cards, and few playdough activities, and a coloring sheet.

The book Oliver the Octopus

Using olives, onions, on, off, odd, oval, opal, and open, all of these words are better than using the word orange. Yes, the words do start with the letter o. The phonemic sound is actually the r-controlled sound “or” and the letter g is softened to the soft “j” sound by the silent e. These can be confusing concepts for emergent readers. Now that I have started using easy-to-decode words with my students, my results have improved.

I save the word orange for lessons about r-controlled words and reasons for silent e.

Christian Valentines from Teacher to Students

In the Christian classroom we try to always bring every holiday back to God is the reason for the season.

During my first year teaching in a Christian preschool, I was caught off guard by Valentine’s day. The stores did not have any Valentine’s that I wanted to give to my students.

There were some very creative moms in my class and they inspired me to make up my own Christian Valentines for my students. Using the shape and size of a standard Hershey bar, I created a wrapper that said, “HE IS LOVE.”

The kids loved it. One precious little boy lit up with excitement, ” A big candy bar, all for me!” He was overwhelmed by the large size of it in his small hand.

His wonderful mom said, he needed to eat lunch first and it might be nice to share that big candy bar.

School policy says we only celebrate Christian holidays in the classrooms. We always bring every holiday back to God and the reason for the season. Valentine’s Day is no different. One of our memory verses is:

God is Love.

1 John 4:16.

So the phrase “He is Love, ” makes sense, for his holiday gift.

I put other verses on the back and left a space for me to write their names. The original master copy is signed by me, which saves me time each year.

I have put this item on Tpt, if you’re interested in this download printable check it out HERE!

Blessings.

Be sure to check out: Answers in Genesis website. It has lots of free videos for kids and adults. It is a valuable resource for parents and teachers. My family loves it.

Ed Said, “d, id, t.” Suffix Game

Avocado Seed Growing from Seed

Avocado seed finally

Finally got one avocado seed to grow. We now have a tree that is over 3 feet high. This is a huge success after years of trying and only getting mold.

As a teacher, growing things in the classroom is super fun. The kids love it. They measure & image fast results. We grow beans, flower bulbs & try avocado seeds every year. Most years the avocado seed is forgotten about cause is does not grow.

During circle time, I present the large fruit and ask them if they can guess with their hands: How big is the seed inside? Some kids know it is huge. It is fun to have an apple there too & cutting both open to compare the size of the seed inside is a fun lesson.

Toothpick method

Every year, we clean the seed off, stick 4 toothpicks in, balance it over a cup of water & set it in the sunny window. We usually grow only mold.

The outer layer of skin

This year we peeled off the outer layer of the skin on the avocado. The Seedcoat.

The Seed coat should peel off easily, if you let it dry out for a few hours.

Put the toothpicks in and balance over a cup of water with rounded bottom down & pointed end up.

The water was also replaced with clean water every few days. The only other difference was possible a warmer room & more sunny maybe. I really think that peeling the skin off helped the most.

Root growth

Root growth felt like a huge success, the tap-root grew a few inches before it branched out and looked more root like. It took months before the top finally spilt open and this tender little branch popped out.

Tree growth

We waited for this large amount of growth before we planted it in the dirt. Four leaves and a healthy steam to support the tree. It worked, and the tree looks healthy after almost a year.

We did plant one in the dirt too soon. The root had branched a little but the top branch never popped out.

Try this easy Guacamole recipe!