Airplane Sight Words

Feb. 6, 2014

Another sight word game--this time I scattered them around the room and Seth used his jet to swoop down and pick up the correct word. 

Co-op Sick Day

October 28th, 2013

Our kids came down with a mild case of Hand, Foot & Mouth which we decided not to share with our co-op. Since we were missing a day of learning about plants, we headed outside for a nature scavenger hunt.

We saw lots of great plants, leaves, rocks and bugs, but this was the highlight: we now have TWO Catherine the Wooley Bear Caterpillars. One for each hunter. 

For Halloween I changed up the "Roll a Pumpkin Game" we played last year. Instead of one die, we used two. Seth would have to add the two dice together to find out what to draw. Great addition practice and fun watching Seth's pumpkin get covered with all kids of crazy things. 

I decided to use the white board to help Seth practice reading some of his sight words in context. He's really good at reading them off a list but tends to stumble over a few of them when they're in a sentence. I tried to make it fun for him, but he still doesn't really enjoy reading for school. I'm learning to kind of back off and just give him lots of chances to pick things up on his own. Comic books are great for that (we love Tiny Titans), and we also love the Fly Guy books. 

Squirt Gun Sight Words

August 7th, 2013

Possibly Seth's favorite way to practice sight words!

First, get a squirt gun:

Then write your sight words all over the sidewalk: 

When Mom calls out a sight word, find it and shoot it!: 

Sight Word Stamping

August 1st, 2013

Another fun "writing but not really" activity: stamping in playdough!

Seth practiced "writing" his sight words using his stamps.

These are the stamps we bought--we love them!

Jump On It!

June 26th, 2013

I found this idea on Pinterest and adapted it for Seth.

First, I placed his sight word cards on various foam blocks on the floor:

(I actually made a second copy of his sight words for this game because I knew they'd get mangled)

Then I called out a word, and he had to jump on it:

Action shot:

I think we ended up playing this for about 40 minutes (his choice), which meant he went through all his sight words at least four times. This game would be really easy to adapt for lots of different kinds of practice (math facts, etc.). 

Flashlight Sight Word Hunt

June 13th, 2013

I found this awesome idea on Pinterest and figured Seth would love it. I was right! He was so excited to see the flashlights in his school drawer. 

Heading to the basement for the hunt

VERY excited to find all the words

Shining the flashlight on the word.

Once he found the word, I removed it to make things easier (and to keep track of what we'd already done). But for more of a challenge you could leave them all up!

Parking Lot Sight Words

I've seen versions of this all over Pinterest and decided to do my own version. I write all of his sight words on blank index cards, which makes them very portable for different games.

I used sticky tack and stuck them to the floor, then pulled out a bunch of his cars. I would call out a word, and he would have to "park" the car on top of the word. He loved it!

After all the cars were parked, he requested that the cars crash (of course).  I would call out two sight words and the two cars on those words would have a tremendous crash. Great extra practice!