The Connett Connection

One of my newest products are these alphabet flip books.  They are designed to help students to learn their letters by finding, tracing, writing and learning beginning sounds.  There are 6 different activities to engage your student's learning.   The first page is a seek and find page.  Students will circle the capital letter and put a square around the lowercase letters. The second page is a find and color page.  Students will color the circle that contains the correct letter. This page can be competed several ways.  Students can use magazine letter cut outs to complete the page or use the provided letters to cut and paste to the page. This page is for students to trace and write the letters.  They have one line for tracing each letter and two lines for writing each letter. This page is optional and for students who are ready to learn beginning sounds.  Students will color all the pictures that begin with the let...

Another fun week for us!  We had a birthday this week!  The middle child turned 3.  He was so excited for his monster truck party! Here is the cake I made for him.   Another exciting event happened this week for my oldest.  She lost her very first tooth!  She now has her second loose tooth and is anticipating the next one! On Wednesday, my boys and I went to MOPS.  The above is a craft my oldest son made in class.  After he ate his lunch he really wanted to eat his fruit loops off his necklace, so not this necklace is no more! We did do a full week of school, but I just did not get a lot of pictures of what we did.  We continued working on word families and we began a transportation unit on Friday.  The above picture shows the number word chart I made for my daughter to help her learn to write number words.  She has been practicing this skill as well as writing two digit numbers in expanded form. MORE WAYS TO...

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...

This week started off great, but ended with two little boys with viruses.  I hate when the little ones are sick.  We did complete 3 days of school. We are continuing to learn and practice our addition facts!  We did sums of 6, 7, and 8 this week. My two year old was watching his sister do her math and he was so eager to "do school like sissy."  When she finished her math, I drew a large letter B (what his name starts with) and told him to color his letter!  He had so much fun, though he really did not focus on coloring the letter, but all over the board! My daughter has come a long way in writing.  We did this snowman writing page where she had to lists the things that she needed to build a snowman, then she got to draw a picture of her snowman! We also made this cute tree topper for our Christmas tree!  It took us two days to get it done (because she wanted to take a break and we forgot to finish it the first day). Here is...

We did a mini lesson on acorns.  I never thought it would be so hard to find acorns for us to use!  No one in our neighborhood has an oak tree.. I mean really?  Two hundred houses and no oak tree!  We finally found some at our chick-fil-a, at a home we stopped at for a yard sale and in the yard of a friend! I made these acorn measurement task cards to introduce my daughter to weight and how to use her new beam balance! We first worked with the cards that had us figure out which objects weight more, a set number of acorns or a set number of other objects.  I made sure that each card had objects we could easily find around our home, like pennies, buttons, blocks, marbles, etc.  We next figured out which of the objects weighed less. We then used task cards that had us figure out how many acorns would equal the weight of the given object(s).  The above picture shows that 3 acorns weighed the same as the one block we placed in the balance! ...

Another week has ended!  A new one is about to begin!  We had a lot of fun this week, especially with our big project and a new writing plan! We are finishing up a study on the grasslands !  Just a few more days left and then it is one to studying the forest! We had fun using these clip cards to figure out what type of grassland each of these animals lived in. Part of testing her knowledge of the grasslands was doing this writing paper .  I ask her to draw a grassland and then two animals that live in the grassland. Our big project this week was making this grasslands box .  We did a small portion of the project each day this week and on Friday we added our animals and the kids got to play with it.  My 2 year old was so excited to add animals to the box.  He came running over with his favorite animal, his shark.  He got a lesson on why sharks do not belong in the grasslands! Someone posted this idea for writing rubrics on Fac...

This packet has 3 pages of word cards and one recording page.  Students will use the word cards to form a sentence.  They will write their sentence on the recording page and draw a picture to illustrate their sentence.  There are prompts on the sheet to remind the student to remember their capital letter at the beginning of the sentence and their punctuation at the end. To get your copy of the -AT Family Sentence Builders, click HERE !