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...

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...