Hands-on Learning CVC Words!
We have been working on learning CVC words focusing on those with an |o| as a vowel. Spelling games to learn CVC words I have a fun Spelling game which I bring out when a new sound is being introduced. It is nice because it covers all the vowel sounds in CVC words but in […]
A Beginning of a New Chapter
This year has been crazy! I can’t believe it is nearly June. The reason why I have been so busy is that at the beginning of the year I took on a new adventure. After being out of the classroom for just over 4 years I decided to leap right back in into a totally […]
Learning the Alphabet with Digital Task Cards
With my daughter starting to read, my son has become more and more interested in learning the alphabet and heading in her direction. How we use Boom Learning™ to learn the Alphabet… You may have heard about Boom Learning™. It is a platform for Digital Task Cards. You can read about it here. I decided […]
Recycled CVC Spelling Words
Are you a hoarder? So, if you had to ask my husband to define a hoarder, he would probably do so my mentioning my name. I keep all kinds of packaging which may be useful in activities for my children. There are toilet rolls in a kitchen cupboard and plastic disposable containers in a bedroom […]
Digital Task Cards Make Teaching Easy!
Boom Learning™ is a year old! I can’t believe it has been a year since I first started with the BoomLearning™ platform to create BoomCards™ task cards as part of the Beta group. If you haven’t heard of this App before, you are seriously missing out! The BoomLearning™ platform for digital task cards which can […]
QR Code Possibilities are Endless
I loved using QR codes in my classroom and to this day, wish I had discovered it earlier. As a result, I am going out of my way to introduce them to other teachers so that they can identify with the potential that they offer the classroom environment. I have compiled a few ‘How to…” […]
CVC Fun on the Way to School
Megan is in Kindergarten and loves books. Every night we read two stories to her and she is starting to recognize words- which is very exciting. We have been focusing a lot on Sight Words and CVC words and it was getting to a point where she wanted to read on her own, but there […]
Struggling to win over your students. Try this…
As the new school year begins and you meet your new class of students, are you concerned of personality clashes? We have all had the experience of a personality clash, whether it be with a parent, colleague or student. It’s tough… putting 25 individual students into a class with an adult and that they […]
Be Your Student’s Superhero!
This has been on my mind for a while now. It is something that I think does not come naturally to everyone, and is therefore overlooked by many. It applies to not only teachers, but parents too. I’ll be honest with you and admit that my ‘light-bulb’ moment only happened after my daughter, Megan, was […]
DIY Puzzles
Adam is loving puzzles at the moment! Once he starts, he wants to build all our age appropriate puzzles and even digs into Megan’s box, which is not a good idea yet as her pieces are tiny and she would not be happy if he manages to lose a piece or two. In the past […]