Alphabet Emergent Readers Bundle - A Work in Progress!

I haven't posted in a while I know. My personal life as well as school life has been crazy busy since school began. My grandmother fell the week school began and fractured her pelvis in several places so we have had weeks of hospital and rehab. She came home 3 weeks ago and we have been taking turns staying with her as she cannot be left alone. This has meant less creative time for me, but I have managed to create some alphabet emergent readers. I am planning to make the entire alphabet, but have uploaded what I have finished so far.


Each emergent reader has 8-9 pages with two books per page. You can copy and lay them on top of each other and cut on a paper cutter. These are super simple to assemble and print in black and white to save on ink. My kinders loved coloring and reading these! The bundle is currently on sale for $3.00 until it is complete and then the price will increase to $6.00.

Alphabet Emergent Readers GROWING Bundle

Friday Freebie: Beginning Letter Sounds Review Sheets

I have shared with you before that this year we are using the Houghton Mifflin Journeys reading series for the first time so I am redoing my letter sequence to follow the reading series. We teach all the letters by Dec. so they can be assessed in January so we are going in the order of the reading series but doing 2 letters per week. I redid some beginning sounds sheets with the new sequence. I hope you can use these too (even if you aren't using Journeys!).

G, R, D, & O beginning sounds review sheet

J, E, L, & W beginning sounds review sheet

N, F, B, & I beginning sounds review sheet

If you download and can use these, I would love for you to leave me a comment and also rate me on TpT. Thanks so much! You are fabulous!!

Letter Sounds Concentration Games

I have made a few more concentration games for other alphabet letter sounds. I hope you can use these too!

Cc Concentration Game - color

Vv Concentration Game - color

Ww Concentration Game - color

I am sure there are many ways to store these kinds of games, but here is the way I store mine. I purchased a set of index card dividers (4x6"), put each game in a labeled envelope and store them alphabetically in a plastic shoe box. This keeps them organized so I can go back and pull them out each year.

Teaching Letters & Sounds

In our school district, we teach 2 letters each week so that we have taught all 26 letters by the beginning of December. I am always trying different ways to help my students learn the letters and their sounds.

One way that I review letter sounds is using letter sound concentration games I created. I have my teacher assistant use these with her small group (about 6 students) while I am working with my guided reading group and two groups are doing individual activities. I print 2 copies of each on cardstock and laminate for durability. Then they play concentration with them by identifying the two pictures they have found. Some of these concentration games have been updated with color clipart.

Hh Concentration - color

Ii Concentration - color

Jj Concentration - color

Mm Concentration - color

It's a Winter Wonderland...

Since we don't get much winter weather here in SC, we have to pretend. I love doing winter themed activities in my classroom during the month of January. This is such a fun unit and my kinderkids always love learning with winter themed activities. Here are the activities I have created so far on my winter "break".

Winter Rhyming Game

This game has the kids practice matching rhyming pictures. I plan to use it in my small groups. I printed it on cardstock and laminated for durability.

Winter Letter Match

I created this game to use with my intervention group to help them practice naming and matching uppercase and lowercase letters. They will match the uppercase snowflake letter with the lowercase penguin letter. I printed this on cardstock and laminated for durability.

If you choose to use any of these activities, please leave me a comment! Thanks!!

More Christmas Fun

I had so much fun creating things to use in my classroom for Christmas that I thought I would share a few more with you. I hope you can use them in your classroom as well!

Christmas Beginning Sounds Match

This is a game I created to use with intervention group as a way to practice beginning letter sounds which many of them are still struggling with. They will have to look at the picture on the ornament cards and put it under the correct beginning letter. I printed this on cardstock and laminated for durability.

Reindeer Uppercase/Lowercase Letter Match

I created this game to use with my intervention group to help them practice naming and matching uppercase and lowercase letters. I printed this on cardstock and laminated for durability.

(Sorry it is sideways...it would not rotate!)

Christmas Counting Activity Sheet

I created this counting sheet to have my kids practice counting sets of objects up to 20 and writing the matching numeral.

If you choose to use any of these games, please leave me a comment! Thanks!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am looking forward to teaching about Thanksgiving over the next couple of weeks. Here are some of the games I am using in my classroom. I hope you can use them too!

Matching numerals and sets

I created this math game to help my kinderkids practice matching numerals and quantities. I printed it on cardstock and laminated to make it last.

Uppercase & lowercase letter match

This is a game for my intervention group to practice matching uppercase and lowercase letters. I printed it on cardstock and laminated to make it last.

Thanksgiving rhyming match game

This game is a matching game using rhyming pictures. I plan to use it as a memory/concentration style game within my small groups. I printed it on cardstock and laminated to make it last.

 If you choose to use any of these games, please leave me a comment! Thanks!!

Fall Fun

I feel like I haven't been on my blog in FOREVER! My personal life has been crazy with a great deal of tragedy in my husband's family so please forgive me for not being active. Hopefully things will become better as the days pass!

Since this week will be two weeks before Thanksgiving break for us I am doing some more fun fall activities with my kinderkids. I hope you can use these activities as well!

Squirrel-Acorn Beginning Sound Match

I printed this activity on cardstock and laminated. The kids have to find the 3 pictures and match them with the letter sound they begin with.

Squirrel-Acorn Letter Match

I printed this activity on cardstock and laminated. The kids match the uppercase and lowercase letters. This is going to be a great activity to use with my intervention group of kids who still need extra practice identifying these letters.

I also found some great activities to use this week on Kindergarten Hoppenings blog. I love her I Have Who Has game for fall alphabet. My kinderkids have become obsessed with this game.

 If you choose to use any of these games, please leave me a comment! Thanks!!