In January we will dive into reading, writing, and spelling long vowel words. We will begin with "Open Vowel Words" That unit is included in my Happy New Year unit. After that we will work on using the infamous Silent E. Last year we used the fun "Sneaky E" puppets and the kids looooved them. This year I will introduce the Silent E Gang : Sneaky E, Sparkly E, and Magic E. All are guaranteed to help kids stay engaged and have fun while learning about that important silent e on the ends of words. I put together a little packet to keep me organized, and I can't wait to do all this with my kiddos! I hope you will find them useful. The packet includes, chants, paper bag puppet patterns, stick puppet patterns for each of the gang members, and about 28 pages of short vowel words, some conventional and some nonsense for kids to practice and write.
Here are a few pics of the unit.
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| Cut out and make stick puppets for "Add an E game included in unit. |
Hope you're having a great week!! I'm off to work on report cards! And something for our Teacher Inservice day on Monday (Thanks for the reminder, Tracy!!)
Talk to you all soon!!
Joyfully!
Nancy
Thank you so much Nancy for your generosity!!
ReplyDeleteI love your blog! Thank you for sharing your ideas with the rest of us! We did your "life size fact families" today and my kids LOVED it! I just changed the Santa hats to party hats to go along with the New Year theme! Thanks Again, Jen
ReplyDeleteYou are AMAZING Nancy! Thank you so much for sharing your incredible creativity with us....but most of all, THANK YOU for sharing your beautiful heart.
ReplyDeleteI will treasure the sweet words you recently left on my blog forever. You are such a blessing. =)
I hope one day to meet you in person. =)
Blessings and hugs,
Heather
Heather's Heart
You are so amazing to share all of your creativity with us! This is such a smart idea to "bundle" all of these "e" characters together, so the kids are familiar with all of the terms. Super cute! Thank you!!!
ReplyDeleteLove this. I can't wait to put this in a center for my kiddos. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI adore your blog. I have used so many of your units in my classroom. They are some of my kid's favorites. I am amazed at your talent in putting together units that are comprehensive and practical...and might I add....free! What a blessing you are to teachers young and old looking for great resources. I look forward to your blog each day. Thank you!!!
ReplyDeleteI love your activities and blog posts! I teach 2nd grade but I use a lot of your things for beginning of the year spiral review or for differentiating in my room. SO...THANK YOU!
ReplyDeleteLove this idea! I am also looking for different ways to introduce phonic concepts!
ReplyDeleteFantastic! I am teaching 1st grade for the first time and am starting long vowels this week! Perfect timing, thanks!
ReplyDeleteJust found your blog and I am so glad I did - all I can say is wow! so many great ideas and an amazing amount of freebies - you are very generous and creative!
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Another awesome packet! You are so inspiring! And I gave you a shout out on my blog:-)
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You have been getting several shout outs on the Shout Out Linky I am co-hosting....and I can absolutely see why! You are fantastic!
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What a great thing to share! We learned the sneaky e last semester but could use more practice. I love the mustache idea. Too cute!
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The Frizz in First Grade
Wow! You are amazing! The time and money you must spend.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your ideas. I enjoys reading your blog and borrowing ideas.
Mrs. E in First Grade
AMAZING!! Thank you so much for sharing! My daughter is in kindergarten and struggling with the silent e concept!
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate all your work on this!
I love this and I'm using it for my first graders as well. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to stop by again and tell you how much I love this post! I am obsessed with your Silent E Gang. They are just too precious and so are you!
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing place your classroom is. Thank you for always being such a blessing to me!
I love your lots!
Heather
Heather's Heart
I just came upon this post....this is exactly what I've been looking for and you were generous enough to share your work! I so appreciate you sharing your hard work with me...it is so greatly appreciated. I love these ideas...do you usually just stick with one, have them use them all, or let them choose which one they'd like to make? I SO appreciate you sharing this that I'd like to give back to you someway if you would like. Feel free to go to my TpT store and pick whatever you would like (price doesn't matter in the least)! I would love to give you a product for sharing yours with me....if there's anything you would want. So feel free to email me the product you would like to try and include your email so I can send you the file. I hope you find something that is helpful to you as this is to me. Thank you again...and I look forward to hearing from you :)
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