The Crayon Box That Talked

This is a neat story about a box of crayons in which the colors do not get along! Find out what happens when a little girl wants to use each color in her drawing. This book is great to read to your class when talking about differences and getting along with others. When finished reading the book, have your kids choose their favorite color and make themselves into crayons!

Mystery Word

This is a fun idea to get your kids to practice their chunking skills. Put mystery words on sentence strips and slide them into the mystery word envelope. As you slowly slide the word out letter by letter, students try to sound out the word and guess what it is. Also, have them look for words within the word!
Can you guess what this word is?? Penguin!
You can also make a Guess the Pattern envelope!!!

Book Buddies

Your students will have a great time reading to a book buddy! Introduce your class to your
book buddies and tell them that their buddies are excited to learn from them this year. Give the book buddies names and put them in your reading center. You can make it a reward by choosing kids that are doing good things that day and letting them pick their buddy to read with!

Snowball Fight!

Here is a fun idea! Write words on white paper and crumple it up into "snowballs". Let students have a snowball fight with the paper balls until you shout "freeze!" At this point they pick up a snowball and unfold it to read the word on it. Next they turn it back into a snowball and continue to play!

Snow Powder

Here is a neat product to use with your kids! If you use cold water to make the snow it feels real! Snow Powder comes highly recommended by Kindergarten teachers in our district. They use it as a center when they
are talking about Winter time.

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Word Rings

A great way to help kids work with words is to make different sets of word rings centered around different topics such as, school words, Winter words, animal words etc. Hang the rings in your writing center and tell kids that they can take them to their table when they are journal writing!

Mystery Pictures

This is a neat way for kids to practice reading words. You can write their names or words they are learning on in white crayon on white paper and then randomly pass them out. Your students use water colors to reveal their words. You could use words from a unit you are studying or seasonal words. Please comment on your ideas!