Word Family Turkeys :-)

Word Family Word Work 

Benefits:

* rhyming practice

* builds confidence in early readers

* helps develop fluency in reading

* helps early readers notice patterns in written words

This is the start of the turkey family that T. is creating this week to practice word families.  He enjoyed this simple activity.  Simply printed a pattern in various sizes (dad, mom, kids), colored with crayons, cut out, added feathers, feet, and words!  I'd love to provide a link to that body but the link to the actual site was suspicious to me.  I actually saved image from a google search so if you search "mesh turkey pattern" you'll most likely come across that same pattern.  With young children, I suggest you print on card stock or construction paper.  :-)

I was surprised that word families really aren't introduced too much with the K12 curriculum...not at the 1st grade level but even more surprising not finding it at the K level.   Oh well, I'll just include it myself.  :-)

Here's a great link for some free word family books for emergent readers.  She uses a lot of sight words.  Perfect for kinders!

The Measured Mom

has created several mini-books for the vowels as well as MANY other resources for reading.  If you have young children, go check her site out...I'm sure you'll find something helpful!

Math Vocabulary Turkeys

The children are doing quite a bit right now with story problems in math.  I'm finding that they don't always pick up on the "clues" for which operation to use.  This was meant to be a quick activity to review some of the vocab that goes with the various operations (+, -, x, /, =).  Some of the children took it a step further and created a scene using the paper-cut technique. 

 

4th grader                              1st grader

3 years old :-) 

 

3rd grader                            2nd grader

 There is one project missing from these pictures.  C's-2nd grader.  He had a rough week last week and it was hard for him to get and stay focused...so he hasn't completed his yet.  He seems better today (Sunday), eczema seems like it's back under control and his attitude changes accordingly.  :-)  One benefits of having at home is that I can be a bit flexible with what's on his schedule.  Last year, some of his tests scores came back interesting.  The teacher knew that he was capable of certain things but the test score said differently and that is what she had to document.  We keep in mind here that when he's broken out (eczema) it's 10x's worse inside of his body than it shows on the outside.  No wonder he gets grumpy.  We try to help him learn to deal with it, because he can't use it as an excuse for poor behavior...but it's nice to have some flexibility with him that MVCA is offering.

 
 

Turkey template can be found at All Kids Network.  This time I printed a copy onto brown cardstock for each child.  Then they had their body already and used their feather as their tracer.  Worked out nicely.  :-)

 

Math Vocabulary:

Here's a link to get your started on what terms to use...SparkleBox Mathematical Vocabulary Posters...children chose a feather to put an operation symbol on and then added the vocabulary accordingly.