Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'!
29 June 2012
Play this 'roll a cvc word' game with your students! It helps them practise blending 3 letter words and decide if it is a real word or not. |  |
I printed and laminated 6 of the gameboards for students to use during literacy rotations. Download the gameboards here |  |
To play this game students will roll a dice and move down that many places. Repeat this for each column of letters. Students will then put the letters together and decide if they have rolled a real or made up word. |  |
If it is a real word they get to write it on their mini whiteboard. |  |
Students love to compete against each other and try and write the most words! (Nothing motivates my class more than a bit of friendly competition!) |  |
'Remember keep calm and pretend it's on the lesson plan'
Top Teacher xx
Let's get Crazy
27 June 2012
| Check out these gorgeous hermit crabs (also called crazy crabs) our excellent DOTT teacher Miss Woods made with my class! |
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You need a paper plate, coloured card, edicol dye, paint, black marker, pipecleaners and googly eyes. Students decorated their paper plate with a black marker in a swirly shape. They then painted it with edicol dye. When dry the plate was cut to look like a shell. Students made hand prints on card and then cut them out when they were dry. Make sure the fingers are apart. This will be the crab. Using the pipecleaners curl at the top and attach googly eyes. We used a hot glue gun to make sure they attached properly. Add all piece together now to create the hermit crab. The handprit into the opening and the pipecleaner eyes to the top part of the shell. |
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'Remember keep calm and pretend it's on the lesson plan!'
Top Teacher xx
I spy with my little eye!
25 June 2012
Kids love 'I Spy' bottles and this is an educational way to use them in class! Using our sight word program here are sight word bottle templates for each of the 11 Dolch sight word lists. |  |
I coloured the rice with edicol dye and when each colour was dry mixed them together. Collect water bottle and dry them and take off the label. |  |
Laminate the sight word bottle templates and cut up individual words. Begin filling an empty water bottle with rice a bit at a time and each time you pour in the rice add a couple of words to ensure the words are scattered throughout. Keep going until the bottle is about 3/4 way full. Dont' fill to the top or there will be no room to move the rice and words around. At the bottom on the bottle I tape the laminated 'sight word bottle 1' so it is easy for both the kids and i to see which word set it is and so they know which word sheet to use with it. |  |
I print off lots of the sheets also onto plain white copy paper and slice in half. These are placed in a tub with the bottles to keep them all together. It is easy for to then place the tub on a table for literacy rotations or for student to go to that tub and get what they need for the activity. | |
When students complete the activity theu get a bottle and a sight word sheet and begin to look for the words in the bottle by shaking and jiggling it around. When they find a word they read it and then colour it in on their recording sheet. Sometimes I have this activity as a guided one and as students find a word they read it to me first and then find it and colour it in or as an independent where they just read it by themselves and colour it in | . |
My absolutely love this game and want to play it everyday and compete against each other to find the most words! |  |
'Remember keep calm and pretend it's on the lesson plan'
Top Teacher xx
Roll-a-Shape
23 June 2012
| Play this game to help your students recognise shapes. |  |
It comes in 2 different game boards 1.circle, square, rectangle, triangle, pentagon, hexagon 2. circle, square, rectangle, triangle, oval, star |  
 
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| Students roll the dice and then find one of those shapes and trace and colour it in. Continue until they have coloured in their whole board. There are 3 of each shape scattered around the game board |  |
| Laminate for use during centres and use chubby markers or print off and have students colour in with textas or pencils. |  |
'Remember keep calm and pretend it's on the lesson plan!'
Top Teacher xx
