Add a little luck and laughter to your literacy centers with this clover-themed Free Leprechaun CVC Words Game, where kids read, play, and try to avoid the sneaky leprechaun!

So many of you shared how much fun your students had playing our Gobble Gobble Game, and Santa Ho, Ho Ho Beginning Sound games at the end of the year, so I created a new version to keep the excitement going with a CVC words version! This clover-themed CVC game is a fun and engaging way for your learners to practice reading simple words while trying to avoid the sneaky leprechaun.

The Setup

To play the game, simply download the printable at the bottom of the post. Cut out all of the squares and laminate them so you can play the game over and over again. You will also need some kind of container to put the cards in. I used a simple tin that I’ve had for years, but you can use anything you have on hand.

To Play

This game can be played with one student or many. You will put all of the cards into the container and shake them up. Have a student pull out a card, look at the CVC word, and then read it. If playing alone, choose another card and repeat. If playing with other students, move to the next person to take a turn.

Some cards say, Sneaky leprechaun! If a student chooses a Sneaky leprechaun card, they say, Oh no! A sneaky leprechaun, and puts all of their clover words back in the container, and it’s the next player’s turn, or they can start over again if playing alone.

All short vowels are included: a, e, i, o, and u. It makes it easy to differentiate if your students haven’t learned all of the short vowel sounds yet. Just add what they are familiar with or what you want themto practice with into your container for them to play with. 

Your students will love playing this game so much and get so into into finding that silly, sneaky leprechaun! They hope to pull those cards!

You can download the Leprechaun CVC Words Game below by clicking the green download box.

If you’re looking for more fun ways to practice CVC words this season, you’ll want to check out our St. Patrick’s Day CVC Words Board Games!

These St. Patrick’s Day CVC board games make practicing middle sounds and short vowel words fun, interactive, and stress-free with a simple print-and-play setup. Perfect for literacy centers or small groups, this engaging resource helps young learners build phonics skills through hands-on play.

Do you have any other fun ways you like to practice CVC words with your class? Let us know below in the comments!

See you next time!

Jenette

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March is here! Today I have a NEW March Joke of the Day 2nd Edition to share with you!

March Joke of the Day 2nd Edition

Have you been following along each day as I share a different joke of the day on Facebook?

Since this is the second edition, there are all new jokes this month! You’ll find some silly animal jokes and some fun jokes for St. Patrik’s Day this month. Each month, I also turn them into a printable so you can easily print them out and have the page handy all month to share with your class or family at home.

These jokes are a simple, fun way to connect with your students and make them laugh. This month we have fun jokes that are sure to make your little ones giggle and maybe get some eye rolls.

Sharing humor can foster a positive, lighthearted environment, whether at home, in the classroom, or among friends. It sets a cheerful tone for the day.

Share the jokes with your class during your morning meeting, getting ready to go to lunch, or when you are packing up for the day before you go home.

I made the joke of the day printable available to print in both color and black and white.

You can download the March Joke of the Day 2nd Edition printable by clicking the green box below.

In case you missed the first edition of the March Joke of the Day printable, you can find that here.

I hope your kiddos will enjoy this new set of jokes just as much as the first!

See you next time!

Jenette

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Are you looking for a cute read-aloud for St. Patrick’s Day? Look no further! This week’s Literacy Snack Lucky Read-Aloud is called The Luckiest St. Patrick’s Day Ever! by Teddy Slater.

It’s a cute, simple book that takes you through the day, St. Patrick’s Day. It follows the Leprechaun family on their St. Patrick’s Day parade, and then back home for lunch with friends and family. The books gives a great opportunity to talk about different symbols of St. Patrick’s Day, looking for fun items on each page turning it into a scavenger hunt, and to talk about all kinds of great green types of food.

At the end of the book, they toast and say, May the luck of the Irish be with you today!” So that is what we are going to base our snack and printable on today, luck. For our snack today, we will be having a shamrock cookie.

Snack Idea

For our snack today, we’re keeping it simple with these store bought shamrock cookies. I found these in the bakery section at Target, but you can also probably find something similar at your local grocery store or Walmart.

Free Printable

For our free printable to go along with the book, we are focusing on the lucky aspect. It’s a great time to talk with students about what makes them lucky. They can reflect on who they are and value what they have around them. So often, our kiddos don’t think about what makes them a good person and appreciate the good things in their life so this is a great opportunity to do just that!

On the printable, the students will draw a picture and write about what makes them lucky.

You can download the Literacy Snack Lucky Read-Aloud free printable by clicking the green box below.

If you’re looking for more read-aloud for St. Patrick’s Day, we have 2 more literacy snack read-aloud that you might like. First up is There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Clover. You can check out the snack idea and grab the FREE printable to go along with the book here.

And we also have another literacy snack read-aloud for St. Patrick’s Day, Leprechaun On The Loose. You can get out the snack idea and get the FREE printable to go along with the book here.

I hope your students enjoy one of all of these fun read-aloud for St. Patrick’s Day! Share with us below in the comments if you have any other favorite books you like to read for the holiday.

See you next time!

Jenette

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Have you ever played Minute To Win It games? They are always a hit with the kids and adults alike! I have 5 St. Patrick’s Day Minute To Win It Ideas that are perfect to use in your classroom!

Minute To Win It Games are perfect for the classroom. You can break students up into 5 groups and have them work together and take turns playing the games, and then all rotate. Or you can play as a class. Split our students into 2 groups and choose a student or a few to come up and play each of the games against each other.

These games have other great benefits too like working on fine motor skills, counting, sorting, eye hand coordination, social skills, and cognitive skills. This makes it a great addition to your classroom to play on St. Patrick’s Day, before your Spring Break, or for a Fun Friday activity!

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Lucky Charms

Supplies you’ll need

A bowl, Lucky Charms cereal, kids tweezers or kitchen tongs and additional container to put the marshmallows in.

To Play

The student will sift through and pick out all of the marshmallows from a bowl of Lucky Charms using a pair of kids tweezer or tongs. At the end of the minute, count how many marshmallows they were able to find.

Pot Of Gold

Supplies you’ll need

5 pennies and a popsicle stick.

To Play

The student will need 5 pennies. The student will carefully stack the 5 pennies on the end of a popsicle stick. They will then try and walk across the room without dropping the pennies.

For older kids or adults, add some extra pennies.

End Of The Rainbow

Supplies You’ll Need

A pile of Fruit Loops cereal and a pipe cleaner.

To Play

The students will try to thread the cereal onto the pipe cleaner in a minute creating a rainbow.

For older kids or adults, have them create the rainbow only using one hand.

Gold Coin Stack

Supplies You’ll Need

25 plastic gold coins or chocolate coins. -You can usually find these at Dollar Tree or Oriental Trading as well.

To Play

Give the student 25 gold coins. See if they can stack them all without falling in one minute.

For older kids or adults, have them stack the coins only using one hand.

Lucky Puzzles

Supplies You’ll Need

A Lucky Charms cereal box – I happened to find this fun St. Patrick’s Day themed box at Target.

To Play

For this game, you’ll need to cut up the Lucky Charms box. You’ll want to use the front of the box, and cut it into up into several squares. Have your students see if they can put the “puzzle” back together in one minute.

For older kids or adults, cut up both the front and the back of the box and have them put both “puzzles” together in a minute.

I hope your students enjoy playing these games as much as mine do. Are there any other St. Patrick’s Day activities that you enjoying doing in the classroom?

If you’re looking for more Minute to Win It games, click here to see our fall minute to win it game idea, winter minute to win it ideas here and here for our spring minute to win it game ideas. We also share donut minute to win it games to play here. 

Let us know if you have any other fun games you like to play with your class in the comments below!

See you next time!

Jenette

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Happy March! Have you been following along this school year with our joke of the day on Facebook? Today I’m sharing the free printable version of the March Joke Of The Day.

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Each day on Facebook, I share a joke of the day like the one below.

And then each month I compile them all into a free printable version so you can easily share them with your class or your family.

March Joke Of The Day

This month, there are some fun insect, spring, weather and St. Patrick’s Day jokes. They will have your students giggling and maybe get a few eye rolls. Everyone can use a little extra laugh each day!

These jokes of fun to add to your morning meeting, while you’re lining up to go to lunch or as your’re packing up for the day. I made the March Joke Of The Day free printable available in both color and black and white.

You can download the free printable by clicking the green box below.

In case you’re missed any of the other months of jokes that I’ve shared, you can find them here. 

August Joke Of The Day

September Joke Of The Day

October joke Of The Day

November Joke Of The Day

December Joke Of The Day

January Joke Of The Day

February Joke Of The Day

Make sure to come back next month to grab the March jokes!! See you next time!

Jenette

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Learning about the weather is always fun! There are so many fun activities, hands-on activities, and experiments that can be done! Today, we have a Literacy Snack Weather Read-Aloud. We are reading, Miss Mingo Weathers The Storm by Jamie Harper.

In our read-aloud today, Miss Mingo takes her class on a field trip to the weather station. The class experiences all kinds of weather and crazy atmospheric changes throughout their trip!

This book is sprinkled with great weather and animal habitat facts too!

For our snack this week, we’ll be making rain clouds!

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snack idea

supplies needed per student

• Approx 6 blueberries
• Approx 25 mini marshmallows (or about a handful)

to assemble

To make the rain cloud, have the students use their mini marshmallows to create a cloud. After they have made their cloud, they can use their blueberries as raindrops falling from the cloud.

free printable

I made a free printable for your students to work on while they are enjoying their rain cloud snack. They will get to draw and write about their favorite type of weather.

You can download the free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store by clicking the green box below.

Another fun activity to go along with the book is our Umbrella Craft With Writing Prompts. They look great hanging on the bulletin board or in the hallways all spring long! Click here to check it out now.

And we also have our Weather Bingo. It’s a great way to review weather vocabulary while having some fun! Click here to grab it now.

I hope your students enjoy this Literacy Snack Weather Read-Aloud!

Do you have any favorite books you like to read about the weather? Share with us below!

See you next time!

Jenette

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Spring is officially here, so for this week we’re focusing on birds and we are reading Nesting by Henry Cole for our Literacy Snack Robin’s Nest Read-Aloud.

In this black-and-white picture book highlighted with robin’s egg blue, the students will follow two robins as they build a nest with twigs and grass. The mother robin lays four beautiful blue eggs and keeps the eggs warm in the nest until they hatch into four baby robins.

The father robin protects the babies until they can fly on their own. The perils the babies encounter are many, including snakes and storms. The nest is always their safe place.

This book provides a great introduction to animal science concepts for young children.

For our snack this week, we’ll be making our own robin’s nest.

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snack idea

supplies needed per student

• One rice crispy treat. You can make them yourself to bring in for the class if you are allowed, or you can purchase individually wrapped rice crispy treats. They also make full pre-packaged rice crispy sheets now that would work great for this too.
• 3 Mini Robin Egg candies

to assemble

To make the robin’s nest, have the students take their rice crispy treat and form it into a bowl or nest shape. Add the 3 robin’s eggs in the nest and you’re done! This snack is super easy peasy!

free printable

I made a free printable for your students to work on while they are enjoying their robin’s nest snack. They will get to draw and write about one thing that they learned about robins from the book.

You can download the free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store by clicking the green box below.

Another fun activity to go along with the book is our bird nest counting mats. Buy an extra bag of Robin Egg candies to use as the counters. (They’re my favorite Easter candy!)

If you are looking for some more great spring literacy snack read-alouds here are some of the ones we’ve shared.

When Spring Comes

The Tiny Seed

Kite Day

Worm Weather

Do you have any favorite books you like to read in spring? Share with us below!

See you next time!

Jenette

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Learning about plants and flowers is a favorite of mine for springtime. I’m a huge sucker for handprint crafts too! So today, I’m sharing with your a fun Parts Of A Plant Handprint Craft to go along with your plant unit. I also have a free printable part of a flower printable for you too!

I love using crafts to help kids learn. Hands-on activities help them retain what they are learning better and they are getting in some great fine motor skills work with tracing their hands and cutting everything out.

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Here’s one of our favorite songs/videos from Harry Kindergarten that helps teach kids about the parts of a flower.

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Supplies to make the Parts Of A Flower Handprint Craft

• 4 pieces of construction paper in total – brown, green, yellow and the color you’d like to use for the flower, I chose pink for mine.
• scissors
• pencil
• glue stick
• can of food or something similar in size to trace a circle for the middle of the flower

To Make the Craft

To make the parts of a flower handprint craft, you’ll want to start by having the students trace their hands 4 different times on the color paper that they chose for their flower.

Next, they will trace their hands 2 times on both the green and the brown paper. Also using the green paper, they will need to cut a strip approx an inch thick, which doesn’t have to be perfect, the length of the piece of construction paper to use as the stem. You’ll then have them trace around the can of food on the yellow paper to make a circle. Now, have them cut out their 8 handprints and the circle.

To make the flower, have them layout the 4 same-colored handprints in a circle so they are all touching just a bit. (Tip-have them place the side they traced-outlined on face down so you don’t see the pencil marks.) Next, have them use their glue stick on the circle and place it in the middle of the 4 hands.

For the next part, they will need the stem and the 2 green handprints, and 2 brown handprints. They will use the glue stick to attach the 2 green handprints to the stem as leaves and then the 2 brown handprints to the bottom of the stem as the roots. Last, have them put some glue on the top of the stem and attach the flower.

After the flower is all put together, we also then labeled the parts of the flower using a marker. These are so fun hanging up in the classroom for spring!

I also made a free parts of a flower printable to go along with the craft too. I made 2 options for it as well. The first option, the kids cut and glue the parts of a flower in the correct spot and let them color it. I also made a version that the kids can write in the answers, or you can even use it for a little quiz or review after going over them together as a group.

Click the green box below to download the free printable.

If you’re looking for even more fun hands-on flower activities, we have our How Does A Plant Grow Sequencing Activities. This is a fun way to incorporate many different learning standards. In this pack, the students are learning writing, sequencing, retelling, life skills, and much more. It’s a great hands-on activity to get the students excited to learn.

And if you’re looking for a great read-aloud to go with teaching about the parts of a flower, The Tiny Seed is our top pick. We share a snack idea and a free printable to go along with the book that you can find here.

Do you have any other fun hands-on activities that you like to do when teaching about flowers and plants?

Jenette

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Spring officially starts this weekend, so for this week, we are reading When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes for our Literacy Snack Spring Read-Aloud.

“Before spring comes, the trees are dark sticks, the grass is brown, and the ground is covered in snow. But if you wait, leaves unfurl and flowers blossom, the grass turns green, and the mounds of snow shrink and shrink. Spring brings baby birds, sprouting seeds, rain and mud, and puddles. You can feel it and smell it and hear it. “

This book takes you along on the beautiful transformation that happens between winter and spring. And for our snack idea this week, we are making my favorite part of spring, a flower!

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Snack Idea

Supplies Needed Per Student

-1 to 2 strawberries thinly sliced (depending on the size of the berries)

-approx 8 blueberries

-a thin slice of green apple

-2 spring lettuce leaves or spinach leaves

To Assemble

To make the flower, start by laying out the strawberries in a circle like the petals. Add the blueberries in the middle. Next, add the green apple slice as the stem. Last, add the lettuce as the leaves.

You could use many different types of different fruits for this activity if you want to change it up. For example, use orange slices as the flower petals and sliced grapes in the middle. Tons of possibilities!

Free Printable

I made a free printable for your students to work on while they are enjoying their flower snack. They will get to draw and write about their favorite thing to do in spring. Also about how they feel, what they smell, and what they see in the spring.

You can download the free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store by clicking the green box below.

We have another fun flower snack idea to go along with the book, The Tiny Seed. Click here to check that one out and grab the free printable to go along with the book.

And to help us welcome spring, we have our Spring Bingo which is perfect to play all season long. Click here to grab it now.

What are some of your other favorite books or ways to welcome spring?

See you next time!

Jenette

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Need a fun spring math-based craft for your bulletin board? We’ve got you covered with this Butterfly Spring Math Craftivity to go along with the book Ten For Me.

This is a great way to tie math into your butterfly unit, finishing up your addition unit on the different ways to make ten, or just as a fun spring math project.

Ten For Me is a fun read-aloud where two friends take off on a butterfly hunt, only to find themselves tangled in a mathematics net! Rose, and her friend Ed race to see who can catch the most butterflies on this addition adventure. How many in all? Let s add them again! shout the butterfly hunters. Who will win? Ten for Me makes math fun, easy, and entertaining while adding a touch of the natural world into cross-curricular education.

Several pages throughout the book have fantastic butterfly facts that you can share with your students too.

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Getting Started

Supplies needed

-A large piece of construction paper per student. We used blue to look like the sky but you could use whatever you have.

-Scissors

-Glue Stick

-Crayons

-Download and print the free printable, available at the bottom of the post

Butterfly Spring Math Craftivity

Using it as an addition activity

This works as a great hands-on math activity for the kiddos. You can use it as a center, or you could use it as a visual while reading the book aloud to the class or group.

You’ll simply print out the 2 pages that you can download at the bottom of this post for each student. Have them color the pictures and cut them out. They can use the butterflies to make ten different ways like in the book. Or you could create addition problems on index cards and have them complete them using the butterflies as counters to help.

Using them as a whole group, just print out and color one copy. You could even laminate it so it can be used over and over again. As you read the story, when each day’s butterfly totals are read, have a student create that addition problem. Have the class complete the new way to make ten each time.

Using it as a craft

My favorite is to use it as a math craft project to display in the classroom. Follow the same as above, print, color, and cut out the 2 pages. To make it into a craft, each student will need a large piece of construction paper. 

Before gluing everything down on the paper, have them start with the en butterflies. They can choose how many butterflies each Ed and Rose caught so that the number equals ten. Have them fill in the numbers on the rectangle word problem paper. They can then glue the butterflies on the sheet that matches their answer.

They look adorable all hanging up in the classroom! 

You can download the free printable Butterfly Spring Math Craftivity by clicking the green box below.

Do you have any other fun books you like to use when teaching addition? 

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See you next time!

Jenette

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Spring is in the air and the days are beautiful outside! This week, we have a Literacy Snack Kite Read-Aloud that takes us outdoors. We are reading Kite Day by Will Hillenbrand.

On a windy spring day, Bear sniffs the air.  Could it be. . . Kite day? Bear and his friend Mole build a kite of their own. But when the storm gets too strong, the kite snaps and lands in a tree. Not all is lost though, as the kite is stuck in the tree it protects a nest full of birds from the rain.

This is a fun read-aloud for spring or is a great addition to your weather unit. For our snack this week, we’ll be making our very own kites!

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Snack Idea

Supplies Needed Per Student

-Half of a graham cracker (so one square)

-Approx 12 M&M’s or Skittles

-1/2 of 1 piece of pull-n-peel licorice

-3 mini marshmallows (for this snack, I left the bag open overnight to let the marshmallows dry out a bit. It makes it easier for the kids to form them into the bows.)

To Assemble

To make the kite, start with laying out the square graham cracker and turning it so it looks like a diamond. Place the M&M’s or Skittles along the outer edges of the inside of the graham cracker. Next, add the licorice piece as the kite tail. Last, take the 3 mini marshmallows and pinch them in the middles to create the bows. Place them on top of the licorice tail as the bows. Cute as can be for their very own kite!

Free Printable

I made a free printable for your students to work on while they are enjoying their kite snack. They will get to draw and write about a time that they got to fly a kite. Or if they haven’t flown a kite before, they can draw and write about a kite they’d like to fly.

You can download the free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store by clicking the green box below.

We have a fun kite math activity that would go along with this book perfectly too! The kites look adorable hanging up around the classroom for spring. You can get all of the details and download the kite template for free here.

Do you have any other fun kite activities to go along with the book? Share with us below!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jenette

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Raise your hand if you’re looking forward to spring break?! I know I am! I made a Free Printable Spring Break Bingo for you to send home with your kiddos.

No, this isn’t homework but sometimes you can or their parents can use some fun ideas to keep the kids busy while they are at home for the week.

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When I made the bingo card, I tried to include only free/low-cost activities that can all be done at home. (Well besides going to visit the park which isn’t at “home”.)

Some of the fun activities that are on the card are: make a smoothie, have a picnic lunch, do a scavenger hunt and fly a kite.

If your students choose to play along, have them bring the card back to you for a small prize! It’s fun to get to see what they did over spring break.

We do also have several other fun bingo activity cards to keep the kids busy. We have a free math bingo here. A free screen-free bingo here. And a free reading bingo here.

Click the green box below to download the Free Printable Spring Break Bingo.

Do you have any other fun ideas to do over spring break? Let us know below!

See you next time!

Jenette

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There’s just something magical about rainbows! And March is always a fun time to learn about them! For today’s Literacy Snack Rainbow Read-Aloud, we are reading, A Rainbow Of My Own by Don Freeman.

In this book, a small boy uses his imagination to see what it would be like to have a rainbow of his own. In the end, he even gets a rainbow of his very own in his room made by the sun shining through his goldfish bowl.

This is a great book to discuss the students using their imaginations and would also be a great addition to your weather unit. For our snack today, we will be making a rainbow of our own from fruit!

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Snack Idea

Supplies Needed

Plastic Punch Cups & Plastic Forks

Red Fruit- We used 2 strawberries per cup. You could also use raspberries or apples.

Orange Fruit- We used 2 canned peaches per cup. You could use orange slices or canned mandarin oranges too.

Yellow Fruit- We used about 1/3 of a banana for each cup. You could also use pineapple.

Green Fruit- We used 4 green grapes cut in half for each cup. You could also use kiwi fruit.

Blue Fruit- We used a small handful of blueberries in each cup.

Purple Fruit- We used about 6 blackberries in our cup. You could also use red/purple grapes.

To Assemble

This snack works best with your help or a volunteer’s help so you can be the one to add the appropriate amount of fruit to the cup. The students can help tell you what color to add next and you can talk about what kinds of fruits they are.

Free Printable

Do you teach your students the colors of the rainbow? One of my most favorite songs to help with this is from an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse every time I see a rainbow I still sing the song! Isn’t it just funny how things stick with you? I found it on YouTube you want to share it with their students.

I made a free printable for your students to work on while they are enjoying their rainbow fruit cup. They will get to draw and write about a time that they saw a rainbow.

You can download the free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store by clicking the green box below.

We have a fun rainbow science experiment that would go along with this perfectly too! To make this rainbow in a jar, the students are exploring density by layering sugar water to make a rainbow. You can get the details of the experiment here.

We also have this fun Rainbow Tally Mark activity. These rainbow tally marks are a great, hands-on way to practice counting by 5’s, counting on and working on fine motor a bit as well! Rainbows always make me happy and are great to use all year long, or during your weather unit, St. Patrick’s Day, or spring in general. Check out the activity here.

Do you have any other fun rainbow books you like to read or activities to go along with the book? Share with us below!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jenette

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Are your little learners working on learning their sight words? They’ll have a fun time practicing with this Sunshine Sight Word Memory Game!

Sight words are those words that our students will see over and over in print. They are sometimes called high-frequency words, service words, or even snap words. Because you should know them in a snap!

This Sunshine Sight Word Memory Game uses Dolch Pre-primer words.

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Getting Ready

To get the game ready to play, you’ll first want to download and print the game. You can download it near the bottom of the post by clicking the large green button. After printing, I glued each page onto a piece of yellow cardstock. The cardstock is optional, but this will help the game be more durable and will last longer. You can also laminate them to help last even longer. Last, cut out each of the sight word cards and you’re ready to play.

To Play

To play the memory game, start by choosing which words you want the students to review. Maybe they’re just starting to learn a few words so you start with 6 words. Place all 6 of those word cards plus their matches face down randomly./mixed up.

Have the student choose a card to turn over, and then read the card. If they can read the sight word, have can choose another card to flip over to see if they have a match. If they don’t read the word correctly, review the word with them and have them turn it back over and it’s the next player’s turn.

If they do get a match, have them set the cards in front of them and they get to go again. Continue this until all of the cards have been turned over and matched. The player with the most matches at the end is the winner.

To store the game away for next time, we use clear photo 4×6 boxes. It keeps everything nice and in one spot ready to just grab and play for next time.

You can download the memory game by clicking the green box below.

Are you looking for another fun way to review sight words with your little learners? We have our color-by-code sight word sets. They’re a favorite for the kids! Check out our ocean-themed set here.

And we have a free one for your students o try out here.

What are some other ways you like to practice sight words with your students?

Thanks for stopping by!

Jenette

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Today we have another Literacy Snack St. Patrick’s Day Read-Aloud to share with you! This week, we are reading, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Clover by Lucille Colandro.

The old lady is back in this book, this time swallowing a clover. Then she continues to swallow items to make the perfect rainbow to hide a pot of gold. It’s a fun rhyming read-aloud for St. Patrick’s Day.

To go along with the story, we are making our own rainbow snacks today!

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Snack Idea

Supplies needed – each student needs

12-15 mini marshmallows

Fruit Loops cereal – 6 pieces of each color cereal

To Assemble

First, have your students create their cloud using their marshmallows. Next, have them use one color cereal at a time to create each arch of their rainbow and they’re done! Easy fun beautiful rainbow snack!

Free Printable

While your students are enjoying their rainbow snack, I made a free printable for them to work on. They get to recall all of the things in the story that the Old Lady swallowed and color them in. See if they can color the items in the order that they happened in the book to make it into a sequencing activity.

Click the green box below to download the Literacy Snack St. Patrick’s Day Read-Aloudfree printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store.

If you’re looking for another great Literacy Snack St. Patrick’s Day Read-Aloud, we also shared the book, Leprechaun On The Loose, and a fun trap idea that you can check out here.

In case you’re looking for even more St. Patrick’s Day fun, we have a scavenger hunt for you too!

You can find all of the other scavenger hunts we’ve shared here. And click here if you’re looking for a printable version.

And we have St. Patrick’s Day bingo too! It’s always a favorite! Click here to see It on TpT and click here for Primary Playground direct. 

See you next time!

Jenette

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Read Across America Week is quickly approaching so I thought I’d share some fun Read Across America Week Ideas that you can use!

Read Across America Week is an annual event that is an initiative on reading creative by the National Education Association. … This motivational and awareness day calls all children and youth in every community across the United States to celebrate reading.  Read Across America week is usually the first week in March.

At some schools, the whole school participates in this week and has a whole fun literacy week or you can celebrate it in your own classroom or at home.

Read Across America Week Ideas

Take your reading outdoors.

• Take your class outside and find a nice shady area and have storytime outside. You can do the same at home. Find somewhere nice to sit outside, or maybe take a book to a park.

Book Scavenger Hunt

• This one can be done in the classroom or at home. Set out some books that you know have the items on the list and have your little learners look through the books for them. You can print off a picture of the hunt below or you can find the actual printable version of the book scavenger hunt here. We also have an extension page that the kids can fill in all of the items they found in the books that you can grab for free here.

Reading Buddies

• Get in touch with an older grade, 5th, and 6th work well for this, and have their class become reading buddies with yours. They can come and read to the younger kids and vice versa, the younger kids can read to the older kids. You can do the same at home, and put an older sibling together with a younger one and have them take turns reading to each other.

Reading Bingo

• Send this fun reading bingo home with your little learners to make reading even more fun! Have them bring it back completed to you for a small prize. You can grab the reading bingo for free here.

Have Guest Readers or Mystery Readers

• You could invite a local author in to read to the students. Have the principal stop in to read a book to the class or even invite a police officer! Tons of different options you could go with here. You could also invite mystery readers in. Give the class 3 clues to see if they can guess who the reader will be!

Do An Author Study

• Does your class have a favorite author? Some of our favorites to do author studies on are Eric Carle, Laura Numeroff, and James Dean. We have a bunch of activities that you could do along with the author study.

• Eric Carle:
  • Free Printable Caterpillar Hat
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar Literacy Snack
  • The Grouchy Ladybug Literacy Snack
  • A Very Busy Spider Literacy Snack
  • The Tiny See Literacy Snack
  • Pancakes! Pancakes! Literacy Snack
• Laura Numeroff
  • Cookie Counting Puzzles
  • Cookie Hat
  • If You Give A Moose A Muffin Literacy Snack
  • If You Give A Cat A Cupcake Literacy Snack
  • Donut Ten Frames
  • If You Give A Dog A Donut Literacy Snack
• James Dean
  • Cool Cat Awards
  • Pete The Cat I Love My White Shoes Literacy Snack
  • Pete The Cat Cupcake Subtraction Craftivity

Dress Up As Your Favorite Book Character Day

• Have your choose a book and dress up as one of the characters. The class can take turns guessing who everyone is dressed up as! For yourself, talk to your teammates about dressing up altogether to make it extra fun!

Host A Family Reading Campout

• Choose a night and invite the entire school out to a family reading campout. We have done this in our cafeteria. Set up several tents, make pretend campfires and have some teachers volunteer to come and read too! We also set up a reading craft area and gave out special s’more snacks!

Read With Flashlights

• Set aside some special reading time and read with flashlights! Something so small but makes it so fun! The kids love it!

Beary Good Reader Snack

• Here’s a fun snack to give to your beary good readers! You can put the crackers into a snack bag or you can find pre-packaged crackers that you can just attach the bag topper to as well! Click here to download it now.

Read Books That Promote Diversity And Inclusion.

• The Read Across America website has a fantastic calendar of book suggestions depending on that month’s theme. From foster inclusiveness exploring families and history to promoting respect. You can check out the calendar and book suggestions here.

Make A Literacy Snack

• Have you tried one of our literacy snack ideas? We take a read-aloud and create a fun snack to go along with the book. Each one has a free printable available to go with the book too! We have shared over 100 of them now. You can find them all here.

Do you have any other fun ways to celebrate Read Across America week? Share with us below!

See you next time!

Jenette

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So many people are distance learning right now, but I still wanted to share an easy and fun literacy snack that you can share with your families. At the end of all of this craziness, it can be adjusted to do in the classroom as well.

So for this week’s literacy snack, we are reading, The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach. If you do not have this book, you can search for it as a read-aloud online and there are plenty of options available.

It’s a silly book that follows a bear on an adventure and comes across your sandwich and eats it. So of course for this week’s snack to go along with the book, we’re making YOUR favorite kind of sandwich.

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To Assemble

The kind of sandwich you make is all up to you. Make your favorite! This will be an easy snack to have your parents make with their kids at home. I made a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich which is MY favorite sandwich. My son’s favorite sandwich is peanut butter, honey, bananas, and bacon. What’s yours?

Free Printable

I made a free printable for the kids to work on while they’re enjoying their sandwiches. They get to draw and color in their favorite sandwich ingredients on the printable.

You can download the Literacy Snack Idea Bear and Sandwich free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store below.

If you’re looking for another activity to go with the book, you might like our Cooking Class How To Make A Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich or How To Make a Sandwich. They are a fun way to incorporate many different learning standards. In this pack, the students are learning writing, sequencing, retelling, life skills, and much more. It’s a great hands-on activity to get the students excited to learn.

I hope your kiddos enjoy this fun book and get a fun tummy at the same time. See you next time!

Jenette

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With everyone staying at home and e-learning happening everywhere, I thought it would be fun to make different scavenger hunts to share with you each day for the kiddos to do.

They are listed in the order that I am posting them on Facebook. So you can choose whichever one you’d like to do.

I’ve gotten sooo many requests to have them be printable as well, so I put them all together in this resource. It currently has over 122 scavenger hunts. As I continue to make more, I will be adding to this as well.

You can grab the printable scavenger hunts directly from Primary Playground here or from my TeachersPayTeachers store here.

St. Patrick’s Day Scavenger Hunt

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Backyard Scavenger Hunt

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5 Senses Scavenger Hunt

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Spring Scavenger Hunt

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Rainbow Scavenger Hunt

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Book Scavenger Hunt

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Math Scavenger Hunt

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Inventor Scavenger Hunt

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Indoor Scavenger Hunt

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Nature Scavenger Hunt

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Letters Scavenger Hunt

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Black and White Scavenger Hunt

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Shapes Scavenger Hunt

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Rhyming Scavenger Hunt

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Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt

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Numbers Scavenger Hunt

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Easter Scavenger Hunt

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Rainy Day Scavenger Hunt

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Outdoor Scavenger Hunt

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Desert Scavenger Hunt

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Sight Word Scavenger Hunt

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Park Scavenger Hunt

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Earth Day Scavenger Hunt

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Community Scavenger Hunt

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Snow Day Scavenger Hunt

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Living and Non-Living Scavenger Hunt

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Urban Scavenger Hunt

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Gratitude Scavenger Hunt

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Autumn Scavenger Hunt

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Q & U Scavenger Hunt

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Apartment Scavenger Hunt

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Night Time Scavenger Hunt

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2D Shape Scavenger Hunt

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Mother’s Day Scavenger Hunt

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3D Shapes Scavenger Hunt

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Home Scavenger Hunt

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Colors Scavenger Hunt

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Garden Scavenger Hunt

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Sunshine Scavenger Hunt

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Transportation Scavenger Hunt

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Caribbean Scavenger Hunt

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Birthday Scavenger Hunt

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Bigger or Smaller Scavenger Hunt

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Digraphs Scavenger Hunt

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Blends Scavenger Hunt

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Patriotic Scavenger Hunt

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Father’s Day Scavenger Hunt

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Zoo Scavenger Hunt

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Double OO Scavenger Hunt

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Controlled R Scavenger Hunt

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Camping Scavenger Hunt

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Taller or Shorter Scavenger Hunt

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Animal Scavenger Hunt

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Fairy Tale Scavenger Hunt

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Lighter or Heavier Scavenger Hunt

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Beach Day Scavenger Hunt

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Canada Day Scavenger Hunt

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Nursery Rhyme Scavenger Hunt

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Farm Scavenger Hunt

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Insect Scavenger Hunt

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Back To School Scavenger Hunt

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Virtual Back To School Scavenger Hunt

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All About Me Scavenger Hunt

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The Night Before The First Day Of School Scavenger Hunt

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Computer Scavenger Hunt

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iPad Scavenger Hunt

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Chromebook Scavenger Hunt

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Google Classroom Scavenger Hunt

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Apple Orchard Scavenger Hunt

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Pirate Scavenger Hunt

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Fall Scavenger Hunt

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Pumpkin Patch Scavenger Hunt

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School Supply Scavenger Hunt

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Fire Safety Scavenger Hunt

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Halloween Decoration Scavenger Hunt

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Halloween Scavenger Hunt

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Creepy Scavenger Hunt

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Halloween Candy Scavenger Hunt

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Thankful Scavenger Hunt

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Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt

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Thanksgiving Day Parade Scavenger Hunt

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Christmas Lights Scavenger Hunt

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Christmas Scavenger Hunt

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Christmas Lights #2 Scavenger Hunt

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Christmas Eve Scavenger Hunt

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Chanukah Scavenger Hunt

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Winter Scavenger Hunt

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CVC Short A Scavenger Hunt

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CVC Short E Scavenger Hunt

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CVC Short I Scavenger Hunt

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CVC Short O Scavenger Hunt

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CVC Short U Scavenger Hunt

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Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt

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Weather Scavenger Hunt

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Opposite Scavenger Hunt

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Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt

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Pet Store Scavenger Hunt

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Mardi Gras Scavenger Hunt

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Purim Scavenger Hunt

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Passover Scavenger Hunt

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Cinco de Mayo Scavenger Hunt

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OI and OY Scavenger Hunt

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Double EE Words Scavenger Hunt

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End Of The School Year Scavenger Hunt

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Long A Scavenger Hunt

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Long E Scavenger Hunt

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Long I Scavenger Hunt

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Do you have any other scavenger hunts that you’d like to see? Let me know and I’ll see about adding it!

Long O Scavenger Hunt

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Long U Scavenger Hunt

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Summer Scavenger Hunt

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Wild West Scavenger Hunt

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Road Trip Scavenger Hunt

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New Year’s Scavenger Hunt

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100th Day Scavenger Hunt

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2’s Day Scavenger Hunt

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Food Pairs Scavenger Hunt

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Lunar New Year Scavenger Hunt

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Around The School Scavenger Hunt

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Kwanzaa Scavenger Hunt

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Jenette

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Playing games or in this case, doing puzzles is one of my favorite ways to reinforce concepts the students have been working on. Today I’m sharing Free Printable CVC Short A Puzzles to help the kiddos review. It’s always a bonus when the kiddos are getting practice but don’t even realize it since they are playing a game.

CVC words are words that are made up of a consonant, short vowel, and consonant sound, such as cat, bed, tip, hot, and rug. The goal is for students to use their knowledge of the individual sounds of each letter and ‘blend’ these letter sounds together, so they are saying the whole word and not three individual sounds.

Today we are starting with Short A words.

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Getting Ready

These CVC Short A Puzzles are super simple to prep. You’ll just need to download the file at the bottom of this post. Cut out the puzzles and I suggest laminating them for durability and they can be played with over and over again. Now you’re ready to play!

To Play

To play, mix up all of the puzzle pieces. Have the student choose a picture.

They will then search through the puzzle pieces to find the matching word to complete the puzzle. Continue this until all of the puzzles have been put together. This can be played individually, or with a friend during centers or even in a small group.

I’ve also included a recording sheet for the students to write the short a words using the puzzles they’ve put together.

To store the puzzles, we use small plastic photo box. It make sit easy for the students to grab the box to play and then they can easily clean them back up.

You can download the Free Printable CVC Short A Puzzles by clicking the big green box below.

If you’re looking for some additional activities for your students to review CVC words we have a bunch of fun options for you.!

Our CVC bingo is a fantastic and fun way to practice short vowel words. This is a great option for small groups or as a whole class.

And another fun game that can be used as a center. Spin a middle sound and cover a matching word.

Are some of your kiddos ready for a bit more of a challenge? They love the challenge and the satisfaction of solving the puzzles! These CVC Crossword Puzzles are very engaging!

And for those little learners that love to color, these Color by CVC Word pages are perfect! They will look at the picture next to each color and then find the matching word throughout the picture and color.

What are some of your favorite ways to reinforce CVC words that your students have been learning?

Jenette

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Science fair season is upon us and I wanted to share a project that my son did a couple of years ago. It’s not something that I normally share considering the age range but I wanted to share the details because it really is such an awesome project and could be done as a class project for the younger grades.

My son did this project when he was in the fourth grade which was perfect since they had been learning about circuits in science class. He has always been obsessed with circuits since he was little. We got him his first snap circuits set when he was in kindergarten and finished the whole book in the first 2 days he had it.

We were inspired to do this project the summer before, we had visited Seattle over the summer and went to the science center while there. They had built a life-sized operation game and it was the coolest thing ever! We decided that he could recreate the same thing just on a smaller scale to take to school.

The teachers did not require a typical science fair background board but allowed the kids to create a google slide show and had them print it out to be displayed instead.

My son did place first in the science fair for his grade with this project. No promises, but the students and parents sure had a lot of fun seeing it at the science fair night. Here’s how to make one of your own Simple Circuit Science Project!

Supplies needed

A medium-sized cardboard box

Wrapping paper or bulletin board paper to cover the box

Small 2oz plastic cups – we used 4

A roll of aluminum foil

A pair of tweezers

Small toys to try and fill out of the holes – we used Legos

Hot glue gun and sticks of glue

Alarm sensor

Electrical tape

Print out a character you want to use. The size will depend on the size of the box you are using.

Scissors

Glue stick

Pencil

Razor knife

Packing tape

Wire strippers

The Details

Print out a picture of a character you’d like to use. My son chose a Lego mini-figure which we printed on a couple of pieces of paper. He then cut them out and pieced them together overlapping them so they fit the box fully. Lay the character on the box and determine where you want the holes to be that you’ll be placing the little toys into. DO NOT glue the character down at this point.

Next, take a plastic cup and trace the bottom of the cup onto your character in spots where you want to add the holes for the toys too. My son chose to do 4 holes. After you trace the hole, a parent needs to help carefully cut out the holes of the cardboard box using a razor knife. You’ll also need to cut out the holes in your cut-out character.

After the holes are cut in the box, cover the entire box in tin foil. Where the holes are, carefully poke a hole and fold the foil inward to the inside of the box. If there are any spots where you can see the box still in the hole, you’ll want to add some additional foil. This will make sure there will be a connection for the circuit. You can secure the foil on the inside of the box with packing tape as well.

With the cups that you used to trace the holes with, on the inside of the box, you’ll need to hot glue the cups to the box. The cups are made of plastic so they are non-conductive only triggering the circuit if they touch the edge where the foil is.

Now you need to apply your siren to your simple circuit. Mount the siren on the inside side of the box using hot glue. Looking at the alarm, there are 2 wires that go into a connector at the end, cut the connector off, you do not need this. Cut it right at the end, leaving as much wire as possible. Now pull the 2 wires apart.

Next, poke a small hole for the wires to fit through the outside of the box. Now the black wire can be cut shorter and then strip an inch of the shielding off exposing the bare wire. Hot glue or tape it to the aluminum foil, making sure the wire is touching the foil.

Next, wrap the cardboard box with the paper that you have chosen over top of the foil so it looks nice and clean. Carefully recut the same holes that have the foil inside. Using a glue stick, glue the character down onto the box. Make sure to poke your long wire through the paper and bring it to the front as well.

The final step is to attach the tweezer to the white and black wire. Strip back an inch of shielding and wrap the wire around the back end of the tweezers. Then tightly wrap electrical tape around the wire on the tweezer to make sure it’s secure.

Now you’re ready to test your simple circuit. Touch the tweezer to the foil in any one of the holes completing a circuit from the black and white wire to the black wire causing the siren alarm to go off. This is grounding the circuit. Add in the toys and you’re ready to play!

Let us know if you recreate this Simple Circuit Science Project! We’d love to see pictures so please share with us on our Facebook page or tag us in your photo!

See you next time!

Jenette

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Kids love learning about space! Today I’m sharing a Free Printable Solar System Hat that you can use along with your space unit!

There are just so many fun things to learn about during a space unit. There’s just something amazing about the wonder of the moons, the planets, and everything that comes along space. Hats are also a favorite for the kiddos so I thought it would be a perfect way to help reinforce the planets.

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Getting ready

This Free Printable Solar System Hat project is super simple. You’ll need to download the Free Printable Solar System Hat at the bottom of the post for each child. I’ve included a front and back strip for the hat, but if your student’s heads are a bit too big, you can have them glue the hat onto a sentence strip to make it longer/bigger for them.

To Assemble

To make the color system hat, the students will color all of the planets along with the sun. They can then cut the planets and hat out. You can have them glue the planets on randomly, or help them place them in the order closest to the sun to the furthest.

last, help them staple the hat together so it fits their head and they’re ready to go! They are so proud to show them off and is a great conversation starter with other people around the school or to show their parents what they’ve been learning about!

You can download the Free Printable Solar System Hat below.

If you’re looking for more space-themed activities to go with your unit, we have a bunch of fun resources for you!

Space bingo is a fun game to play at the end of your unit and to review vocabulary words they have learned.

Space Color By Code CVC Words is a fun and engaging way to practice CVC words. They work great as morning work, small groups, individual work, centers, word work, and homework.

And these Space Counting Mats are a fun way to practice numbers. The students will help gather the correct number of stars. They can then practice writing the number.

These space ten frame task cards are great to help students with number recognition, basic addition, and counting on.

Space Resources

Learning about the moon landing too? This has another hat included for that and a fun easy reader!

Space Activities is jam-packed with a ton of resources to cover your whole space unit from math, literacy, and science activities there is a ton to choose from.

Crafts are always a favorite too! These rockets look adorable having in the hallway for everyone to see!

Add a fun space addition to your literacy centers with these spaceship real and nonsense word sort.

And these crack the code math pages are full of jokes all about space! You can download a free one here!

What are some of your favorite ways to teach your kiddos about space?

I hope you students enjoy making and wearing their hats!

See you next time!

Jenette

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One of my most favorite books ever is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It’s always been a favorite of mine but even more so once I had my son years ago and it quickly became a favorite of his as well. He had the book memorized and would read it back to me several times each night. I can still hear that cute little baby voice saying sausage in a silly way.

I still love reading this book today as it brings back so many memories and is a favorite of so many others. I wanted to make a fun activity to go along with the book, so I’m sharing with you a Free Printable Caterpillar Hat for the kids to color and wear after reading the story.

Have you seen the animated video of the story? It’s a short film but it has such a calming tone to it and is a great retelling of the story.

Free Printable Caterpillar Hat

This hat is a fun way to have your students retell the story. On the hat, it shows all of the things that the caterpillar ate through.

Simply download and print out the hat. Have your students color and cut out the hat. Help them staple it together and they can wear them proudly!

If you’re looking for more activities to go along with The Very Hungry Caterpillar you might like our caterpillar literacy snack that we did to go along with the book.

You can download the Free Printable Caterpillar Hat from my TeachersPayTeachers store below.

I hope your students have a fun time making memories with this book as we do!

See you next time!

Jenette

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I’m always looking for new ways to incorporate math into something fun. Today we’re are working on our number bonds to ten with this fun kite craft perfect for spring.

This math craftivity is a fun way to conclude your unit on ways to make ten and the kites look adorable hanging up around the classroom for spring.

THIS ACTIVITY WORKS WELL WITH

Supplies

Each student needs

the free kite printable you can download for free at the bottom of the post

tape

scissors

crayons

a long piece of yarn

Instructions

To make the number bonds to ten kite craft, the students will first write in all the different ways to make ten on the bows on the free printable. They can then color the bows if they choose to and color the kite as well. Next, they will cut out all of the bows and the kite.

Last, they will tape the yarn to the back of the kite as a tail. Then tape each of the bows to the yarn all the way down. Cut off any remaining yarn.

We even took them outside to let them blow in the wind since it was a windy day. so much fun in this little project!

Don’t they come out adorable? Perfect to display in the classroom or hall for spring.

Click on the green box below to download the free printable, number bonds to ten kite craft from my TeachersPayTeachers store.

If your little learners need a bit mor3e practice with making ten with number bonds, these number bond task cards are perfect to add to your math centers, or even as send home practice.

What are some of your other favorite ways to practice making ten with number bonds?

See you next time!

Jenette

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Spring is in the air and it’s my favorite time of year to get to study insects and plants and flowers! There so many fun things to learn about this time of year. Right now, we’re focusing on ladybugs, get all of the details of what we do for our unit here.  So we are sticking with ladybugs this week, and we are reading, The Grouchy Ladybug, by Eric Carle for this week’s literacy snack.

As children follow the Grouchy Ladybug on her journey, they will learn the important concepts of time, size, and shape, as well as the benefits of friendship and good manners.

This is a story of a bad-tempered bug who won’t say “please” or “thank you,” won’t share, and thinks she is bigger and better than anyone else. This book will help your little learners learn that maybe being grouchy isn’t always the best option.

For this week’s snack to go along with the book, we are making our very own ladybugs.

THIS ACTIVITY WORKS WELL WITH

Ingredients

each student will need

1 strawberry cut in half

a small number of chocolate chips, approx 12

4 candy eyeballs

A small amount of cream cheese to use as glue for the eyes

Assemble

The student will each have a half on strawberry. They can take a few chocolate chips and push them carefully into the strawberry pointy side into the strawberry. Last, have them put a tiny bit of cream cheese onto each eyeball to use as a glue to attach the eyeballs onto the strawberry.

While the students are enjoying their ladybug snack, I creat4ed a free printable for them to work on to go along with the story. They get to draw a picture and write about what makes them grouchy.

You can download the free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store below.

If you’re working on ladybugs in your classroom, we have some other fun ideas for you to go along with your unit and this book. Making these insect lifecycle hats is one of the kids favorite activities to do! You can never go wrong with making hats!

Or these ladybug counting mats make practicing counting fun in a hands-on way.

Or make a ladybug craft to go along with the story and use the free printable as the writing piece to add to the construction paper to display.

What are some of your favorite ladybug activities that would go along with this story?

See you next time!

Jenette

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