Yuck Soup

Yuck!  Soup...that is.  To practice reading words with /ck/, some of my first grade friends helped to illustrate /ck/ ingredients to put into "Yuck Soup"--a soup made entirely of /ck/ things!  This silly anchor chart is one that many buddy readers like to read over and over again, using cool pointers and laughing at all the weird ingredients:  socks, a duck, Cracker Jacks, a clock, crackers, snack cakes, black licorice, a Snickers bar, a cricket {ew!}, a sticker, chicken nuggets, bricks, blocks, rocks, and...a package of pop-tarts.  Do NOT try this recipe at home.  :)

  

Long i fries!

{"I'm lovin' it...} Here is a fun little word sorting activity using letter combinations that make the long vowel i sound!  The kids will read the words on each "fry" and then decide in which box to put the fry. 

A pile of  long i fries.  {Just use fun scrapbook paper!}

And...sort. 

Super /ir/ /er/ /ur/ Girl!

This super girl (I think I'll name her Fern) is flying into our classroom this week to teach r-controlled vowels!  She is going to be one of the choices at word work station--the kids will use the magnetic words to label her with super words.  I also made an identical workpage (just much, much smaller!) for the kids to practice spelling the words on the labels!

"Short O" Lollipop Sort

This is an idea I had for next week's phonics skill--short o! I put a variety of short o words onto clip art lollipops and placed them in a Tootsie Roll Pop bag. The kids will work in pairs at word work station to sort the words, then write the words onto a lollipop sorting page! Sweet...practice! Now that we're getting closer to Halloween, I thought it could be fun to do some themes with candy--I have a few ideas for candy addition, but would love some other ideas from my awesome teacher friends out there!