{"id":969,"date":"2013-10-18T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funwithfirsties.com\/2013\/10\/sight-words-winners\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T01:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T06:21:00","slug":"sight-words-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/18\/sight-words-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Sight Word Activities & Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nHiya’ll! Before I share my weekly sight word “routines,” I would like to congratulate Cindy Murray, who was the grand prize winner out of 1,493 entries\u00a0in<\/span><\/span>\u00a0our “11 bloggers, 11 freebies” fall blog hop:<\/div>\n
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\nCindy has won my Everything Autumn<\/a> literacy center activities pack, along with 10 other fabulous products which you can read about HERE<\/a>. CONGRATS, Cindy!!!<\/b>\u00a0And a huge thank-you to everyone who participated in our blog hop…and scooped up 11 fall freebies on the way!!!<\/div>\n
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\nAlrighty, now for some sight word fun!<\/div>\n
\nLike I mentioned in this blog post<\/a>, I will be teaching my darlings THREE sets of sight words this year (pre-primer, primer, and first grade)<\/i>. So, each week, I introduce anywhere between 3 and 5 sight words each week. I start by arrange the words in a “sight word sentence”:<\/div>\n
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\n(Above shows 4 weeks of sight word sentences–one sentence each week…it’s super crinkly since we’ve been constantly referring back to this page for 4 weeks now!)<\/i><\/div>\n
\nWe review these sentences throughout day whenever we have a spare moment. We read them forward. We read them backwards. We act them out. We search for letters and words. The sentences are, overall, just a great little tool to help the kiddies learn each word (especially when initially introduced)<\/i>. This chart will eventually hang in our reading center with other class-made big books.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nMy kiddies are also *obsessed* with playing Sight Word Slap at any spare moment:<\/div>\n
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\n(I wrote “and” twice. It drives me absolutely NUTS!!!)<\/i><\/div>\n
\nI keep adding our new sight words to this page every week.\u00a0<\/div>\n
\nHow we play: <\/b>Each kiddie gets a turn as I call out a sight word and he\/she has to first find and then “slap” the spoken word with a fly swatter. Simple and fun!<\/div>\n
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\nWe keep track of the sight words learnt with our door decor; “Sight Word Celebration.” We made a deal at the beginning of the year that for every 20 sight words learnt, we will have a little sight word celebration! I still want to add ribbons to some of the balloons:<\/div>\n
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\nI put our “Sight Word Celebration” on our door because, at the end of every day as the kiddies line up and leave the classroom one-by-one to pack up from home-time, I point to a balloon and each kid has to say the word before they leave. It is also right next to my Word Work 2 center, so the kiddies are constantly referencing the words throughout certain center activities.<\/div>\n
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\nI’ve mentioned my “Read It, Build It” filing cabinet once before on my classroom reveal<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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\nI have been adding each week’s new sight words to the cabinet for students to practice building their sight words with Alphamagnets. Right now, I am using this as an “I’m done, now what?” activity.<\/div>\n
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\nThe front of the filing cabinet features an Alphamagnet version of our current sight word sentence:<\/div>\n
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\nThroughout each day of the week (whenever there’s a spare minute)<\/i>, I will either rearrange the letters in one or all of the sight words and have students fix the mis-spelled words,<\/div>\n
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\nOR rearrange the word placement to focus more on sentence structure and deciding “what makes sense”:<\/div>\n
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\nNext up, are our flash cards:<\/div>\n
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\nEach student has a set of sight word flash cards (which the have written themselves)<\/i>\u00a0that they keep in their individual book boxes (book boxes contain levelled books and guided reading books, which the kiddies read when they visit the reading center)<\/i>. Every Friday, we take a short moment to write our new sight words for that week on a card, and add them to our rings.<\/div>\n
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\n\u00a0Last but not least, you might have already read about of our Sight Word Wands<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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\nAgain, I add our 3 or 5 new sight word wands to the cup at the beginning of each week. The kiddies use the wands to search for sight words as they read. I really love love loovve these wands especially for my little guys who aren’t confidently reading yet; rather than always just looking at the pictures of a book, it gives them more of a focus in hunting for all of the words they DO know and CAN read independently. It works wonders for their confidence!<\/div>\n
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\nAnd that about sums up our main “routine” when learning new sight words!<\/div>\n
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\nNow, I would LOVE to hear from YOU!<\/span><\/div>\n
\nComment below to share any tips, tricks, or activities that you use to help your kiddies learn and practice sight words….<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hiya’ll! Before I share my weekly sight word “routines,” I would like to congratulate Cindy Murray, who was the grand prize winner out of 1,493 entries\u00a0in\u00a0our “11 bloggers, 11 freebies” fall blog hop: Cindy has won my Everything Autumn literacy center activities pack, along with 10 other fabulous products which you can read about HERE. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[42,26,116,28],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literacy","tag-anchor-chart","tag-literacy-centres","tag-reading","tag-sight-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}