Archive for the ‘Limited Vocabulary’ Category
10
Jan
Posted by evelynsaenz in art, Beginning Readers, beginning to read, Educational Toys, homeschooling, learning centers, Limited Vocabulary, pre-teen suggestions, Spelling, Vocabulary, Word Games. Tagged: activities, beginning to read, children, classroom, creative, discovery bottles, educational, evelyn saenz, games, hands-on, homeschooling, learning centers, letters, prefix, root words, spelling, suffix, teaching, unit studies, wonder bottles, word attack skills, word skills. Leave a Comment
Wonder Bottles don’t have to be just for babies. Try creating a series of Discovery Bottles for your first to sixth graders with magnet letters hidden in sand, water with glitter, or snowy white beads. As they turn the bottles around, they search for the letters contained in the bottle. Try words like wintry, wintertime, [...]
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8
Nov
Posted by evelynsaenz in autumn, backyard habitat, board games, Educational Toys, homeschooling, Limited Vocabulary, math, nature, science, teaching social skills. Tagged: activities, board games, cats, children, christmas, classroom, cooperative, education, educational, first grade, games, homeschooling, kindergarten, learning centers, math, students, teaching. Leave a Comment
Max the Cat cooperative Board Game Max the Cat is Hungry! Scurry, Climb or Fly for your Lives! While blue jays sing in the trees, chipmunks scavenge for nuts and seeds, and mice do what mice do, a fat old cat named Max finds his way out the door of his house. His owners have [...]
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8
Dec
Posted by evelynsaenz in Beginning Readers, Limited Vocabulary, picture books. Tagged: alhberg, allen alhberg, beginning to read, big bad pig, children, educational, emergent readers, first grade, homeschooling, kindergarten, learning, pigs. Leave a Comment
Big Bad Pig by Allan Ahlberg My rating: 5 of 5 stars Big Bad Pig is one of the funniest books written for emergent readers. With very limited vocabulary Allan Ahlberg reverses the story of the Big Bad Wolf and turns it into a tale that is not only easily read by beginning readers but [...]
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29
Nov
Posted by evelynsaenz in Beginning Readers, Limited Vocabulary, Uncategorized. Tagged: activities, beginning to read, chants, children, choral reading, circle time, classroom, creative, educational, first grade, frogs, hands-on, kindergarten, learning, poems, teaching. Leave a Comment
Each morning I gather my little tadpoles around me and start our day by reading a poem or singing a song. One of our favorite frog songs th classic, 5 Green and Speckled Frogs . Five Green and Speckled Frogs sat on a speckled log Eating some most delicious bugs. Yum, yum! One jumped into [...]
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24
Sep
Posted by evelynsaenz in Beginning Readers, books for boys, books homeschoolers would like, Fractured Fairytales, Limited Vocabulary, picture books. Tagged: alhberg, allen alhberg, beginning to read, big bad pig, educational, fairytale, first grade, Fractured Fairytales, kindergarten, Limited Vocabulary, pigs, red nose readers. Leave a Comment
Big Bad Pig by Allan Ahlberg My rating: 5 of 5 stars Big Bad Pig by Allan Ahlberg is one of the funniest Beginning Readers also known as Emergent Readers, that I have ever read. Children already know the story of the Big, Bad Wolf but this reversal of characters is not only hilarious but [...]
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