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Beginning Consonant Blends Game: Sorting Turkey Feathers

This week, my kindergartner and I decided to work on recognizing beginning blends. To practice sorting the beginning blends sounds, I made a beginning consonant blends game just perfect for the autumn season, since it involves sorting turkey feathers and returning them to the correct beginning consonant blend turkey.Practice recognizing different beginning consonant blends by sorting turkey feathers to the correct turkey! The beginning consonant blends games are so much fun! Continue reading

Practice Recognizing Short Vowel Sounds with an Autumn Game

Strawberry may be kindergarten aged and learning to read, but she does not want to sit down and do a worksheet, thankyouverymuch. So to make sure we get a bit of school in our exploring, I have to be creative and turn it in to a game. This week we played an autumn-themed game to help us recognize the short vowel sounds. The colorful autumn cards gave it a nice seasonal twist that my daughter appreciated as we played in her Halloween costume!
Practice recognizing short vowel sounds with an autumn-themed game.
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Muffin Tin Phonics {A Pinteresting Project}

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I love Pinterest for ideas for education and fun! I really do not consider myself a crafty person, so when Pinterest was new, I thought I should avoid it. I figured there was nothing simple enough for me.
How wrong I was! I love all of the ideas for learning and playing that I stumble upon on Pinterest.
Today I’m sharing an idea I found for a learning game using a muffin tin.
Here was the pin I stumbled upon:


It came from Growing Book by Book, where Jodie also shared two other games with muffin tins. Continue reading