It must be approaching Halloween time! Celebrate this spooky holiday by reading some of these Halloween sight words with your kids. Sometimes I will also take turns picking a gumball – students all read the word – and that gumball ALWAYS gets placed! “Lilly got the Freebie!” – etc.The days are getting shorter and the leaves are changing colors. Students also like to try to “Beat the timer!” VERY fun game students can play over and over. Whenever anyone picks a word that goes on the “Time” it has to be placed on that Gumball machine and I will say, “Time’s a ticking!” When the timer gets filled up the game is over and everyone counts how many words they got to see who has the most. We also do a variation where we have 4 players and I have one board that is the “Timer”. If it isn’t on the board of the person who chose it, then the person who does have it tries to remember where it was placed (back upside down) so that they can pick it on their turn. Everyone looks for the word on their board. Students take turns picking the word and reading it. We place the gumballs face down on the table between us. Students LOVE it! We play it like “Bingo” and “Memory” mixed together. I have been using this Bubble Gum game for years in my special education classroom. Print Coordinating Worksheets Free from Kindergarten Mom Print Sweet Sight Words Free from File Folder Fun You can expand this game for more than five players by printing an additional copy of the game. There are five separate gameboards, each with unique words so there are exactly the right amount of gumballs for all five boards. Additionally, removing gumballs that match unused gameboards will speed up game play as well. You can speed up the game by allowing children to draw three gumballs instead of one. The game continues until one player has filled their entire gumball machine with matching words (candy ball included.) If they don’t have a match they return the gumball to the center jar and it’s the next players turn. If they have a match they get to keep the gumball and it’s the next players turn. Children take turns by drawing one gumball, reading the word and looking for a match on their gumball machine. You want to be sure this is not see through. The games starts by placing all gumballs into a center jar (or coffee mug) as pictured below. This is just a little extra fun to keep your little ones engaged! You’ll notice that there are special “Candy Gumballs” at the bottom of each board. Note: Investing a a circle punch is one the best purchases I’ve made for our classroom and ALL of our Punch and Play File Folder games on File Folder Fun are designed with this size punch, so you can create many of our games in a matter of seconds with this handy tool.Įach child chooses a gameboard. Print your gumballs onto white cardstock then punch them out using a 1.5″ circle punch. I love neon cardstock for game as they are bright and engaging and much less expensive than printing in color. Simply add the pages to a 3-ring binder and you are set! Suggested Age: PreK or K4 Click Here for Sample Pagesįirst print your gumball machine gameboards onto colored construction paper. The 40-week curriculum covers all 40 Dolch 220 Pre-Primer words and prints in the necessary order. Providing your students with a springboard to success with this ready to use program. Students put their knowledge to the test with a weekly sight word mini-book that will bridge the gap between emergent and early readers. Each week covers a single sight word with fun and engaging worksheets, activities, games and hands-on resources. Sight Word of the Week covers 40 key sight words for Preschool and Kindergarten students. (We also have follow up worksheets for every word here).īut before I get to that I need to tell you about our BRAND NEW Sight Word of the Week Curriculum: It’s called, “ Sweet Sight Words, ” and it covers all the primer words your child need to know by the end of Kindergarten. I’m afraid I’ve been a bit neglectful by focusing so much on word families, phonics and vowel sounds that they’ve missed out on some of the other more important aspects of reading.Įarlier this week I released a Dolch Pre-Primer game for Preschoolers, and Today I’m sharing this Dolch Primer game for Kindergarteners. If you’ve been following our blog this month you’ll have noticed that we’ve been on a bit of Sight Words binge lately! That’s because I’ve got two boys, a 1st grader and a Kindergartner who are in desperate need of learning these important words.
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