Valentine Nonsense Word Flash Card Game

I put this game together to play in small groups to help increase nonsense word fluency.  You mix the poem cards in with the nonsense words and when you get to one, you stand up and sing song the poem.  The kids love it!! If I play it with one group, I sure better play it with the other two or I don't hear the end of it! :) 

OK, I don't know why the first two cards on the first two pages are all wonky! When I click on it and download it from Scribd, it displays normally to print.  Let me know if you have any trouble with it.

Valentine Nonsense Word Flash Card Game

Snowman Nonsense and Real Words Activity~~~Updated!

Hey!!  I thought I would update this activity by adding some real word cards, mats and a new worksheet so the kids have to differentiate between the two.  Have fun!


Snowman Nonsense Real Words

Happy New Year and Snowman Nonsense Words!

Hi all!!  I didn't actually drop off the face of the earth, I just acted like it! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year's Day.  I'm in the midst of cleaning up Christmas but the new semester is looming and I felt the need to work on school stuff.  So....I just put together a very simple nonsense word activity. Not enough brain power to come up with an amazing game but this will be a good "Go-To" Activity during literacy center rotations.  The kids can practice reading the words with a partner and then record them on the half sheet.

***On a very exciting note....we are on day 170 of my husband's deployment to Afghanistan!!  Two weeks from today, I will be on a plane to meet him in London for a few days!!  This CAN'T be my life!  Pinch me, I have to be dreaming.  Now, just to whip out a week's worth of lesson plans and I'm off...

Thank you so very much for your thoughts and prayers, they have meant a great deal. :)

Snowman Nonsense Words

The Very Grouchy Ladybug

Our second full week of our Eric Carle study was all about The Grouchy Ladybug!  They love this story -they really like just how grouchy that ladybug gets! 

We start off reading The Very Grouchy Ladybug using the puppet and the clock. 
This year I chose two student assistants to use the puppet and keep up with the time on the clock. 
The next day we read  ladybug and beetle facts. 

I bought this pack of Insect cards from the Target dollar spot and they each got a chance to share their two favorite cards with the class.  It was amazing what many of them already knew.

We used this chart to list facts we learned about ladybugs.  I had to fill in every available space!
 My team and I have been very excited to see how the writing process is unfolding for the
children through the step by step process we are using with the graphic organizers that
Deanna Jump has provided through her tPt sight.  Click here to see what all she has to offer!

I wish I had taken a photo of the graphic organizer we used for our fact writing but I sure didn't! 
The day we charted the ladybug facts in whole group, we used the organizer to write four ladybug
facts in small groups.  The next day each child wrote their four facts in paragraph form to include
in our Eric Carle books. 
I can't emphasize enough how much easier it is for the children to write these facts in a paragraph after 
they have used the organizer.  I think if we utilize this process thoroughly in the last five weeks of school (we do a LOT of writing for this unit and our fairytale unit in May) it will, hopefully, embed the writing process in their thinking to use in the upper grades.



I took this photo before she wrote her fourth fact but since this was her second time writing these facts she felt confident in her writing and it flowed fairly easily.



Next came the artwork!

They each painted  their own paper red one afternoon.

The Very Grouchy Ladybug page in their book. 

Another day, we made our Aphids math page. 
Simple but they enjoy using the hole punch and the ink pad!

I think I will add a script to this page about aphids-it just looks a little blank! 
Ladybugs Are a Gardener

Of course, we charted the Ladybug Life Cycle and recorded this in our Science Journals.

We learned The Five Little Ladybugs poem and will include it in our Poetry Journal next week.  I like to give the children at least two weeks practice with a poem to really focus on learning it and then recognizing the sight words, punctuation and rhyming words.

Five Little Ladybugs

This is a Hungry Caterpillar story sequencing activity that I found online a few years ago. 
I looked and could not find it's source but I did find another sight that actually had quite a few
literacy and math activities for The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  Click here to see what they have!

This is one activity we use to practice nonsense words in small groups.
 It is very simple and not very original but they enjoy it!

I call out one letter at a time and the children say the sound it makes as they write it on their white board.  The first child that is able to read it as a word gets a sticker.  Not exactly rocket science but it is great practice for speed and fluency for DIBELS.

Practice, practice, practice!

Spring Nonsense Bingo!

I added this Bingo game using nonsense words to be used in literacy centers.  I'm going to head over to Dollar Tree tomorrow to pick up something to use as markers-maybe small plastic bird eggs or little chicks, maybe just glass vase fill beads.  I tried to use a font similar to the one used for the test but after fighting with Scribd for most of the afternoon, I've gone back to good ole' comic sans.   Have fun, ladies!

Spring Nonsense Bingo! 5

Spring Nonsense! Game

Here is the nonsense word game I just finished!  Have fun-DIBELS is just around the corner!

Spring Nonsense Game