During wintertime, it’s easy to add “snow days” fun into your learning. Start with my snowman vowels sort freebie! Play with snowmen as you sort long vowels from short vowels in a simple phonics file folder game or classroom center. While you’re at it, here’s another wintery idea: Make learning fun with snowman breaks during
Once my kids were beginning to show interest and ability in sounding out words and recognizing the print around her, I read up on it too and find the early reading activities that will be a perfect match for her personality. If you are starting out in teaching a child to read, this ultimate guide
My early reader does not want to sit down and do a worksheet, thankyouverymuch. And yet she spends her time begging me to play a game. So to encourage her process of reading, I turn it in to a game. This week we played an autumn-themed game to help us recognize the short vowel sounds.
This post contains affiliate links for products I have used. All opinions are my own. If you’ve been following Line upon Line Learning for any length of time, you’ll know that I am all about hands-on learning. Using Scrabble letter tiles is a great way to learn and practice letter recognition, practice other early reading skills,
When I get started with my homeschool day for my third grader, it’s inevitable that my preschooler begs for a chance to do school too! Sometimes we have our lessons together, but when I am tied up with the other children, I love that I can hand her a truly educational preschool phonics app right
This week, my kindergartner and I decided to work on recognizing beginning blends. To practice sorting the beginning blends sounds, I made a beginning consonant blends game just perfect for the autumn season, since it involves sorting turkey feathers and returning them to the correct beginning consonant blend turkey.
My four-year-old daughter is not yet reading. But the other day she was delighted to see the “Go Cubs Go” marquee in front of the doctor’s office. To her surprise (and mine!) she told me what it said! I have a one-track mind this week: Cubs baseball! We’ve also enjoyed counting the “W” banners as
If there is anything my son dislikes about school, it is handwriting. Anything that requires handwriting is something he will complain about! To make spelling practice more palatable for him, I sometimes switch things up by doing spelling practice with alphabet stamps.
I love Pinterest for ideas for education and fun! I really do not consider myself a crafty person, so when Pinterest was new, I thought I should avoid it. I figured there was nothing simple enough for me. How wrong I was! I love all of the ideas for learning and playing that I stumble upon
