I found a big bag of letter beads on sale at the craft store and I am trying to find creative uses for them. Here's a simple language work where children build words by sliding the letter beads onto a piece of pipe cleaner. It's sort of a variation on the movable alphabet, matching, and a fine motor beading activity. We have some first year students moving up from our toddler room this summer. Here is a simple sorting activity with dinosaur counters. They can be sorted by color or type of dinosaur.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Spelling, sorting, and mapping...just a few new activities that are popular right now
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Geography,
Language,
Math,
Practical Life,
Visual Perceptual
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That map activity is AWESOME! I love the recycled pill boxes. How did you do that? Would you leave the instructions in my comments section of my blog? I would love to do something similar!
http://rosegardenhomeschool.blogspot.com/
Thanks!!
Val
Thank you for sharing the spelling lesson and the command cards with the map. What a clever way to tie language with geography. I am looking forward to tryig these in our class after we have moved past our first couple of weeks this year.
I love the spelling bead activity. It totally rocks fine motor skills too! I am always trying to add to my making words center so this is perfect. This summer we have been using www.spellingcity.com a ton to keep our spelling skills sharp. I love that it also has a vocabulary section. My budding 5th grader has been working there for her EOG practice:) Thanks so much for shaing!
http://digitalkindergarten.blogspot.com/2011/06/best-apps-for-end-of-year-kindergarten.html
I've featured your beaded words idea (with links back to you) on my blog, Beyond Gold Stars. I love your idea! :)
I see that you use a lot of cards with photographs as materials in your classrooms, and I know that you prefer to use supplies that are as inexpensive as possible.
I share free printable spelling cards that are connected to the developmental stages of spelling on my website.
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