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These Thanksgiving vowel activities give your children a way to practice phonics with picture puzzles before putting pencil to paper. Match Thanksgiving vocabulary words to their vowel sounds or spelling patterns, read the example words together, and then use the included worksheets for written practice. With short vowels, long vowels, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, and …
These fall vowel activities give 1st through 3rd Grade students hands-on practice with short and long vowel sounds, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, and the schwa sound. The printable phonics packet includes 26 fall-themed A-to-Z matching puzzles, two follow-up worksheets, answer keys, and a teaching guide. Children match each autumn picture and vocabulary word to the …
Winter is the perfect time to add in some gentle handwriting, phonics, and vocabulary practice—and these Winter Label the Picture worksheets make it easy for your Kindergarten and 1st Grade learners. Each page gives young children helpful practice with sounding out winter vocabulary words, building fine motor skills with cut and paste activities, and writing …
These Fall Label the Picture worksheets give young learners seasonal practice with vocabulary, beginning reading, handwriting, and scissor skills. The 20-page packet includes two versions of 10 fall scenes: a cut-and-paste activity in which children match words to the correct objects and a handwriting activity with a helpful word bank. Choose the version that best …
In my 12+ years of homeschooling, I have found that you can’t practice phonics, grammar, Latin, or math facts too often. Add some extra phonics practice to your child’s lessons this week with the phonics sorting activity! ETA April 2022: Note that this post was originally published in May 2013. I have updated it with …
This printable fall word wall helps students in 1st through 3rd Grades build seasonal vocabulary while practicing spelling, syllables, alphabetical order, grammar, and sentence writing. The packet includes 32 illustrated fall vocabulary cards, a space-saving file-folder word wall, and 12 coordinating worksheets and activities. Use the full-size cards on a classroom word wall or writing …
Before I had the baby, I gathered a few ready-made worksheets and printables for my little girls to work on during our (very sporadic) school days. As I was putting together the resources I wanted them to work on, I realized that I had very few Spring printables for them to complete. I had to …
I’m in my 9th year of homeschooling, and it is shocking to me how much homeschool curriculum has changed throughout the years. The variety and types of curriculum offered have exploded. In my earlier homeschool days, I used and loved All About Spelling. It was a perfect fit for my oldest child. In recent years, …
Spelling curriculum can feel surprisingly tricky to choose as a homeschool mom—especially when your child can study a list, pass the Friday test, and still misspell the same words in everyday writing. In this post, I’m sharing what I learned while teaching spelling in our homeschool, the spelling programs we tried (and why some didn’t …
My children are having such a good time with our fruits and vegetables unit study this week! I hope you’re enjoying these posts and I especially hope they help you with some ideas for your own fruits and vegetables unit study. I am also adding a few of these Vegetable Vocabulary Cards during our study. …
Since we are studying fruits and vegetables this week in our science unit study, I wanted to include a set of free printable fruit vocabulary cards for my younger girls, ages 5 and 7. These types of vocabulary cards are also called 3-part cards in some homeschool and teaching circles. I’ve only made a few …
