The Connett Connection

A new product series has been started in my shop and it involves the alphabet!  In getting ready for my son to learn his alphabet next year I have begun making these alphabet packets.  With these packets, you can incorporate letters across your entire curriculum from math to writing to reading to art!  Practice fine motor skills and recognition skills with these letter packets!  When all of the packets are finished, then they will be bundled together to make a whole alphabet curriculum! One thing my daughter loved and I am hoping my son does too are puzzles.  This packet contains 3 types of puzzles!  There are puzzles in each packet where students are expected to match the object to its beginning sound. Another set of puzzles are designed to introduce the idea of spelling words that start with the desired letter.  Each letter has its own puzzle piece and students put the puzzles together by spelling the word.  Since the picture of the wo...

Today marked the first day of Kindergarten.  We took it easy, only doing an activity every so often.  I'm trying to establish a routine so my daughter knows what to expect.  She thrives when there is a routine and I do too. We began by doing some calendar work.  She is still trying to learn her days of the week and months of the year. We then did some review work on the white board.  We are starting over with numbers to make sure she still remembers them all.  I also added a weather component this year since we did not do that during Pre-K.  She enjoyed looking out the window and drawing her own picture! I had looked at a variety of Kindergarten math curricula but most of them she already knew 90% of what was being taught since I taught her all of the number concepts and shapes in Pre-K.  The one I finally settled with, though loosely, was Eureka Math.  It is a free online curriculum.  I am using it as an outline for what...

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, ...

Elkonin Cards are great for learning phonemes and segmenting and blending sounds. Students look at the card, touch each square for each sound in the word then trace the arrow as they blend the sounds to form the word that the picture represents. I have been using Elkonin cards for the last few weeks with my daughter to help strengthen some of her phonological awareness skills.  It has been a slow, uphill, road we've been walking, but she seems to be improving.  Hopefully as we keep working and focusing on the sounds themselves, she will understand more. This set of Elkonin cards has several uses: 1. Use the blank Elkonin boxes (page 3) and print out pages 4-11. Cut apart and laminate for durability. Please the picture inside the correct Elkonin box and use as you would any other Elkonin box. 2. Print out pages 12-36, cut apart an laminate for durability. Use like other Elkonin cards. 3. Print pages 4-11 and use them as a sorting activity. Sort pic...

 I was in the middle of organizing my daughter's kindergarten curriculum and saw where I wrote down "Beginning and Ending Sounds Game."  I searched all my print outs and game bags and could not find one game that matched that theme.  I could not remember for the life of my what it was I had, or what idea I had, when I wrote that down in my plans.  So, instead of stressing over it, I made this easy matching game. Students can simply match the cards that have the same beginning and ending sound or they can play a concentration game to match the pictures with the same beginning and ending sounds. Cards Included: bat – boat vine – van sock – snake night – net rug – ring log – leg hat – heart bag – bug crab – cab This product is available in color and black and white!   To get your copy of the beginning and ending sounds matching game, click HERE ! MORE WAYS TO CONNECT Teachers Pay Teachers Store Boom Store Facebook Page Hands on Activities and ...

I have been trying hard to finish planning my daughter's kindergarten.  I have a lot of lesson plans written out and now I'm trying to organize it into days of school, making packets for each days lessons complete with all the print outs and games needed for that day. That way, when it comes to prepping each days work, all I do is grab that folder.  Well, as I was going through my language plans I  noticed that I made one more day than I had activities for teaching my daughter ending sounds, so I decided to just make the missing worksheet myself.  Since it is a lone worksheet, I have set it up as a freebie in my store! Above is what the worksheet looks like.  Very simple and hopefully a good assessment for when my daughter gets to it.  I am also working on an ending sounds game for her, so when that is ready, I'll post it here too! To get your FREE copy of the ending sounds worksheet, click HERE !