Fun With Words and Learning
I know that hands on learning is best for my boys and so I try to make each and every subject as hands on as I possibly can.
I look for fun ways to cover the same materials as our books and we often make up our own games and fun activities.
I told the older boys they could write on the windows with dry erase markers.
I gave them the option of writing a letter to their dad for him to read tonight or told them I could give them some spelling words to practice. They both chose to write a letter.
Evan thought that sounded like fun and wanted to practice his sight words by spelling them for me on our glass doors.
Ian wrote a nice long letter with lots of spelling and punctuation practice.
Alec decided to write a very short letter but since he made up his own alphabet code and wrote part of his message in code I was totally fine with that. What a great imagination!
He's hoping his father will write him back in secret code tonight when he gets home and reads the message.
While the older boys were finishing up their writing I played a sight word game with Evan.
I took our sight word cups and set them up with 5 in a row and asked him to tell me what sight word Batman was hidden under.
Evan then decided it would be more fun to put a mixture of good guys and bad guys under the cups and he had to find all the good guys before he stumbled upon a bad guy.
This was quite challenging and he got tons of sight word practice.
We played many rounds and ended up practicing 10 different sight words since I switched the cups out half way through playing.
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I look for fun ways to cover the same materials as our books and we often make up our own games and fun activities.
I told the older boys they could write on the windows with dry erase markers.
I gave them the option of writing a letter to their dad for him to read tonight or told them I could give them some spelling words to practice. They both chose to write a letter.
Evan thought that sounded like fun and wanted to practice his sight words by spelling them for me on our glass doors.
Ian wrote a nice long letter with lots of spelling and punctuation practice.
Alec decided to write a very short letter but since he made up his own alphabet code and wrote part of his message in code I was totally fine with that. What a great imagination!
He's hoping his father will write him back in secret code tonight when he gets home and reads the message.
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| Fun with sight words & spelling |
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| Writing a master list for his cipher |
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| Alec writing his coded message |
I took our sight word cups and set them up with 5 in a row and asked him to tell me what sight word Batman was hidden under.
Evan then decided it would be more fun to put a mixture of good guys and bad guys under the cups and he had to find all the good guys before he stumbled upon a bad guy.
This was quite challenging and he got tons of sight word practice.
We played many rounds and ended up practicing 10 different sight words since I switched the cups out half way through playing.
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| Batman is under IT |
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| Oh man, Black Mantis is under LITTLE, we have to start the game over |
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I love that they both wrote their dad a letter on the windows! We will have to add that to our "Things to do" list! :-) #Learn&PlayLinkup
ReplyDeleteIt was so cute. Alec ended up making two copies of his secret code and they wrote back and forth for a few days!
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