Put out that Fire!

We played another sight word game by the pool. But anyone with a hose could play it.

I wrote out our sight words, with chalk, and had monkey read them to me.

Then I called one of the words and told Monkey it is on fire. (He is a little obsessed with the idea of being a fireman when he grows up).

 

When he found the word, I put a red cone on it, and he would spray that word with the hose till it went away. (The red cone, was the fire…he wanted me to draw fire on it, but he said the cone would work).

 

 

And yes, that is me in the pool. Apparently I am being braver than normal (or feeling the 18 pound weight loss!!) and am actually posting me in my swimsuit on my blog. Progress….

Sight Words, Catch a Fish Game

I recently went to Ross, and found some great deals. Ross is a store like TJ Maxx, which has lots of name brand items at a great discount. I love shopping at Ross, you can find some great deals.

I would this game:

Click the picture above to see it at Amazon. Amazon is selling it for $19.99, but I got it at Ross for like 6 dollars (I think).

Here is the picture off of Amazon. The fish have letters on them. There is at least one fish for each letter in the alphabet, as well as many blends, and chunks. So it will be great when we get into word families.

But for now I had Monkey make his sight words with them. I pulled out the necessary letters, and he built the words. They click together like puzzles, but you can also string them on the provided shoelace.

 

  

It comes with some cards, which we haven’t explored yet, but I will eventually.

This is just another way to expose Monkey to his sight words. The more exposure, the easier they become automatic.

You can also turn them over so that the letters aren’t showing and work on patterning. Monkey had fun with that as well.

Make the Word

This post was inspired by Carissa at 1+1+1=1. I love her “I can read program”. I have added another printable to my collection.

We have Letter Tiles by Eureka.

I created this document, to help Monkey make his word. You can also use the tiles that Carissa created and glue them onto this sheet.

Now he can use the tiles to create the word. Necessary tiles for each set in a tin, so that they can easily be found.

Here he is working with his tiles.

I am linking up to Word Play.

Graphing Sight Words

As we are working on our sight words, it occurred to me to make Monkey a sight word graphing sheet.
You can download the sheet here:

Here is how you play. I used our Education Cubes membership, and printed out his words. I used 2 words from the week before, plus this weeks words, for a total of 6. I then wrote  the words in the bottom of the graph.
How to play:
Roll the dice.
Read the word that comes up.
Put a dot in the  space on top of the word, on your graph.
First word to 10 wins.
Or, you could play with 2 people and have them take turns rolling, winner is the first one with a whole column filled.
Linked up to Word Play.

Stamp a word

Monkey has been working really hard on his sight words. I owe a huge thank you to Carissa at 1+1+1=1, for her “You Can Read” program.
As we have been working, I decided to get out our stamps, and try stamping the word. Monkey found this very difficult.
I thought it would be much easier if I changed 2 things.
1. I have ordered some new stamps. We have a set of stamps but they have multiple letters on each stamp (on each side is a different letter). This made the process hard because it was difficult to find the letter, plus once he did find it, it was hard to orient it the correct way. These are not his set, but they are similar.

So I purchased these from Amazon

I also bought an uppercase set as well.
2. The second thing that I changed, was I made a sheet so that he could stamp straight onto a paper. I created a set of the cards for Carissa’s first 6 sets of words. I will create more as needed. Click the thumbnail below to download. If you would like more, please let me know, and I will create more.

Enjoy!
 I am linking up to Word Play, at 1+1+1=1.