So, we all know little ones these days love technology but we can't afford to put an ipad in each childs hand for school. As much as I wish we could it is just not feasable for most schools. While a classroom might have 1 or 2 tablets that is just not enough for a class of 20+, so I have decided to fake it! For my four year olds this year we will be studying our word families on "tablets" printed on cardstock. I have used a tablet graphic copyrighted by scrappindoodles.com to create word family posters, worksheets and word work centers. I have also used this graphic to create a beginning sounds unit, multi-sensory ABC mats, and am currently working on EIOU word families and numbers. I have printed the first set of "tablets" and my 5 year old has not stopped playing with them. He even used a blank sheet that I have provided and made his own word family tablet:
It is a litle hard to see that he has written the name of each picture in pencil on the page as well. I can see that after my instruction with the original "tablet" and after playing with the word work "tablet" he is retaining and able to write some of the words for the -og word family. I can't wait to see what my class does with these this week! I have listed the -ack family as a freebie for you to try these "tablets" out for yourself and the rest of the units are listed and ready to go in my TPT store.
-ACK WORD FAMILY TABLET FREEBIE LINK
TPT STORE LINK
Enjoy your first few weeks back to school, heres to a great year, Enjoy! Christine
Read the room is an excellent center activity! I use read the room almost daily in my classroom for literacy, vocabulary, letter recognition, spelling patterns and much more! I have created a bundle of read the room activities that are differentiated in order to meet the needs of all of your students no matter what level they are on. I am a firm believer in making my classroom an environment where all children are successful and feel confident in their learning. Differentiation is just one way to help those children who may be behind or even ahead to grow and flourish in the classroom. The goal is the same: learning, irregardless of where we start we want children to learn at a pace that does not frustrate and overwhelm. My Differentiated Read the Room Files contain 3 sets of picture cards. One set has the entire word printed with the picture, the 2nd set only has the target vowel written under the picture and the 3rd set only ...
I'm so glad I came across your blog. Your flair of writing is awesome! thanks!
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