Fluttering By With Another Butterfly Activity
If you’re looking for something to assess your students’ ability to show spatial directions that will give you a “hard” copy, I’ve got just the thing.
My Butterfly and the 3D Shapes, is an easy reader, that will not only help you with spatial directions, but review those tough 3 dimensional shapes in a fun way too.
Students trace the word and shape and then cut out butterflies and glue them to the appropriate position on the page.
Click on the link to view/download My Butterfly and the 3D Shapes booklet.
This makes a nice Daily 5 activity too.
When everyone has completed their booklet, read it together as a whole group to reinforce concepts of print.
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permission to PIN anything you think other teachers may find helpful. Enjoy and be sure and flit on over tomorrow for more fun tips.
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Learning Words Magically!
Do your students need some help with words ending in silent or “magic” e?
Do they like to add that special letter to make up new words, but you don’t have the time to make up a worksheet for them?
I’ve got two Magic e packets that will really help out.
The 28-page Magic e Packet includes an alphabetical word list with 102 magic e words + the traceable word cards, activities and an anchor chart.
Since the Dolch Word Bingo Bonanza packets have been such hot downloads, I decided to spend some time making up “magic e” bingo cards too.
There are 30 different cards (a class set) for 102 words.
If your students are like mine, they LOVE playing games.
Let's face it, learning is simply more fun that way.
The more you immerse children with these words, the more familiar they become, ‘til finally the light bulb goes on all the while they’re enjoying themselves.
Click on the link and let the magic begin!
Magic e packet, or Magic e bingo cards.
Do you have a magic e activity you'd like to share? I'd enjoy hearing from you diane@teachwithme.com, or feel free to leave a comment here, especially if you use one of my ideas.
Thanks in advance for taking the time to share and feel free to PIN anything you feel other teachers may find helpful as well!
Thanks for stopping. I hope you can pop back tomorrow for some more tips.
Looking for some easy readers that reinforce number and color words while helping little ones count?
You’ve come to the right place. I’ve been busy dreaming up some really cute ones for spring, or ones that would be generic enough to plug in any time.
I think these will amuse your students. I even have one with a baseball theme to get those boys interested!
Students trace and write the color and number words, then circle the correct number in the sequence and color that many objects.
If there are any topics you’re in need of, simply shoot me an e-mail. I’d enjoy hearing from you. diane@teachwithme.com
Click on the links for the following easy reader color and count booklets: Pretty Petals, Let’s Go (Baseball Color and Count), My Sunglasses, and My Colorful Fruit. I’m working on booklets appropriate for every month so pop by often.
These make great Daily 5 activities.
Feel free to PIN anything you think other teachers might enjoy as well and pop on in tomorrow for some more ideas too.
Do you need some quick and easy ideas with a butterfly theme that reinforce standards, but your students will also enjoy?
You’ve come to the right place.
If you’re assessing right now and looking for something to prove your students can listen and follow directions, a GLYPH is a super easy and fun way to do that as a whole group.
The end results also make a terrific decoration for a bulletin board or hallway. Students can either guess who did which glyph, and practice all sorts of skills, or they can share them with the class and practice their verbal acuity.
Click on the link to view/download the butterfly glyph.
123 Count Butterflies With Me is one of many “count with me” easy readers, that reinforce a variety of math skills.
Students enjoy using a bingo dot marker to stamp sets in a specific pattern. They also cut and glue groups of butterflies to the matching numbered boxes.
When everyone is done, read the booklet as a whole group to reinforce concepts of print and recognition of number words.
Because students can work on these booklets independently, they are perfect for Daily 5.
Children not only enjoy making them, they feel empowered; teachers are then free to assess or work one-on-one.
Click on the link to view/download 123 Count Butterflies With Me.
Click on this link to view the collection of 22 123 Count With Me Books.
I’m always looking for ways to fit in a mini lesson on compound words and rhyming as this can get a bit tedious if you constantly “skill-drill & then kill” it.
I’ve found that tossing in a fun-themed skill sheet, whenever it’s appropriate, is much more palpable and interesting for most students.
Butterfly Word Play does just that. It breaks down the compound word butterfly and has students think of rhyming words for both butter and fly.
Students trace, write and alphabetize the words on a skill sheet. This is a quick plug in for a tabletop lesson, as is adding UT to consonants and making up words for the prefix of butterfly.
Click on the link to view/download Butterfly Word Play.
Finally, I think it’s a lot more fun for students to complete a writing prompt if they know their page is going to be part of a class book.
Writing about being a caterpillar or a butterfly is a wonderfully imaginative thing for a child. Illustrating how they would look as one results in adorable pictures.
I’ve also included a graphing extension to hit yet another standard and learn a bit more about your students.
Click on the link to view/download Butterfly and Caterpillar Class Books.
Happy fluttering through your spring lessons; I hope these helped! Feel free to PIN anything you think might help someone else and thanks for flittin' on over.
I hope you can fly in tomorrow for some new tricks.
- Glyphs
- easy readers
- Making Class Books
- math centers
- Daily 5 activities
- Writing prompts for preschool kindergarten and first grade
- Butterfly Activities
- butterfly booklet
- butterfly rhyming words
- compound word activities
- rhyming word activities
- butterfly glyph
- april glyphs
- butterfly counting booklet
- butterfly math activities
- writing prompts for April
- writing prompts for early elementary
