The Connett Connection

I just remembered I had a whole bucket of word cards and clothes pins that I used to use with my Pre-K class when I taught that I could pull out and use with my daughter!  I used to place them in my writing center and change them out with the different themes and holidays we covered throughout the year. I would begin the year with my shapes, numbers and color cards in the center, as seen here and from there move on to the other themes.  I will show examples from my different themes at the end of this post.  For now, I will show you different ways to use these in a writing or literature center. The most common way I would use the cards was to have the students use clothes pins and spell the word using the pins. Another way was to spell the word using letter tiles or magnet letters. Another way was to have the students write the word on a sheet of paper. I made a ton of these when I was in the Pre-K classroom.  All I did was take sentence strips...

So, I have finished my first big bundle!  It includes the following products: This game is designed to help students learn beginning sounds. There are three different game boards that cover a variety of beginning sounds. Game 1: V, S, C, B, F, J V: Vase matches with: vine, van, volcano, valley S: Snake matches with: sun, sail boat,sock, sad C: Cat matches with: can, car, carrot, cup, cactus B: Bat matches with: box, balloon, ball, bell, bee, bow F: Fan matches with: fish, foot J: Jar matches with: jellyfish Game 2: D, L, G, H, R, W D: Diamond matches with: drum L: Ladder matches with: leg, leaf, ladybug, lamp, log G: Game matches with: goggles H: Hat matches with: hot dog, ham, hay R: Rat matches with: ring, rug, rain, rainbow W: Wagon matches with: whale, worm, water, web Game 3: Y, K, P, M, N, T Y: Yolk matches with: yam, yarn K: Kite matches with: key, kangaroo P: Pig matches with: peanut, planet, pumpkin, palm M: Mat matches with moon, mug, ...

This product is a Spider or Halloween themed center activity.  All you need to provide are the clothes pins to clip the correct beginning sounds to the spider. There are 11 different spider cards with eight pictures each, so you will need 88 clothes pins for an entire set.  You will need to label them as follows: A - 3 B - 9 C - 10 D - 3 E - 1 F - 5 G - 2 H - 7 I - 2 J - 3 K - 3 L - 6 M - 3 N - 3 P - 6 R - 2 S - 6 T - 3 U - 1 V - 4 W - 4 Y - 1 Z - 1 To get your copy of the ABC Spider Clip Cards, click HERE ! MORE WAYS TO CONNECT Teachers Pay Teachers Store Boom Store Facebook Page Hands on Activities and Crafts for Kids Facebook Group Instagram Pinterest Youtube Subscribe below to our email list for the latest blog posts, products, sales and freebies! 

I had these finished before we left on vacation but just did not have time to get them up in my shop.  Between packing and taking care of three kids, it just did not happen. Well, now that we are home, I got them all spruced up and got them posted! Above is an example of one of the clip strip sheets for addition.  Simply print out on card stock and laminate for durability.  Then use a sharpy to label numbers 1-10 on clothes pins (you will need 2 sets of clothes pins per set of 16 cards). Students will clip the clothes pin with the correct sum on top of the problem (see below). The number clip strips are for numbers 1-10.  One set of these clip strips include matching the numbers to themselves in number form and the other set of strips show the numbers as dice, tally marks, base ten blocks and ten frames. The addition clip strips are available in color and in black and white! To get your copy of the addition clip strips, click HERE ! To get your cop...

So today started out like any other.  I got up, changed the baby, fed the baby and laid him on his play mat.  I then got breakfast for the older two, chocolate chip waffles, their favorite breakfast in the world.  I then opened the curtain on the back window then reached for my vacuum which has been camped out by that particular window for a few days now and proceeded to vacuum up the 10 or so flies that had congregated there during the night. You see, the last few days we have been battling a fly infestation.  Until this morning, I had no idea where Ms. Momma Fly laid all her eggs as I hadn't seen any of her babies crawling around anywhere.  Well, after getting the kids breakfast I look over at the kitchen and thought, I really need to sweep!  But then also had a thought, I just swept yesterday and we haven't eaten in there since!  Well, I got up to sweep up what ever crumbs some magic crumb fairy had left there only to discover it was all maggots.....