0 Have you met SUPER E??? {CVCe Words}

This week I introduced my students to SUPER E! Let's just say that they are CrAzY about him now! When I hung up their artwork in the hallway, they were so bummed that I wouldn't let them take them home the same day. One little boy said, "But Mrs. Erickson, how will I teach my mom about him if I can't take him home?" Sweet boy! Don't worry, I'll let them take their creations home soon! But for now, they are staying at school while we continue to learn about how awesome SUPER E is.

We haven't gotten through all the practice pages available in my CVCe Packet yet, but in all the pages we have done, SUPER E has made an appearance and he's kind of a big deal... :)

Last year, when I first posted about this unit, some great readers told me about this awesome YouTube video by Mark D. Pencil. Ummmm... WOW! It goes PERFECTLY with this CVCe Packet! My students beg me everyday to let them watch it again!!! {Have I told you lately how much they love SUPER E????}

Next week I am going to show my students the Word Caper. It is a great little Leap Frog video about adding silent E to the end of words.  Check it out for yourself {here}!

This Unit Includes: CVCe SUPER E posters {color, b&w, and draw-your-own}, a CVCe lesson suggestion with an accompanying worksheet, an original CVCe story with SUPER E as the main character {in color and b&w} with an accompanying worksheet, a SUPER E craftivity that your students will love {pictured above}, CVCe game {easy prep. work}, and 2 practices pages. 

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How do you teach your students about CVCe words?

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0 word endings: update

I have spend the better part of my weekend re-vamping my Word Endings Unit (-ed, -ing).  It was one of the first units I made to sell and I have learned so much about designing lesson plans since then. I have been wanting to cute-sify it for a while and I am glad to have finally found the time! This best seller is now a *lot* cuter and 10 pages bigger! If you have already purchased it, you can re-download it at TpT or TN. If you haven't purchased it, then now's the time! Your students will love all the learning-packed activities and games.

     

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0 Q + U are getting married!

Did you hear the big news? 

'Q' and 'U' are getting hitched!

It's true. They are so in LOVE!

This unit is designed for teaching the relationship between the letters 'Q' and 'U'.

It includes all the activities needed to throw a wedding with much more!

These lessons are absolutely perfect for Kindergarten, 

when students are learning all about the different letters! 

You can also this unit in first grade during the first few weeks of school when you review the alphabet. 

Your students will love these activities and they won't forget what they learn!

The first person to comment and leave me their email address will get this unit FREE!

ENjOY!!

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0 a phonics unit: "y" ending replaced with "ies"

I had one little girl say to me this week:

Mrs. Lindsey, this is my favorite-est characters you have made!

 I designed this unit to teach my students about "y" ending plural words.

For Example: baby --> babies

After creating these letter characters, I told my students that poor old "Y" is allergic to "S" because of her perfume and flowers. "Y" is sad he is allergic to her, because he thinks she is so nice and pretty. Nevertheless, whenever "S" comes around, "Y" has to get lost because of his allergies. Thank goodness "I" and "E" are willing to take his place... In fact, they are more than happy to! They love "S" and they always get dressed up for her and bring her flowers!

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0 mr. fly unit is posted!

This Unit Includes:

*Y Character Poster in Color
*Y Character Poster in Black and White
*3 FUN games
*Assessments
*Graphing Activity
*Mr. Fly Guy Writing Activities
*1 Art Activity

My students have ab-so-lute-ly LOVED this unit. 

And... can I just say that Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl is my favorite of all the Fly Guy books... so cute!

This unit includes some really fun fly swatter games!

(FYI: I bought my fly swatters at Walmart for $0.98 each.)

After the fun fly swatter games, my students made their own fly swatters--they turned out darling!

(Well... as darling as fly swatters can be!)

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0 when do you double the final consonant?

We have been learning a lot about word endings lately (-ed and -ing).

One day, last week, one of my students asked...

"Mrs. Lindsey, why do some words double the letter?"

For example:

run --> running

swim --> swimming

skip --> skipped

To teach my students the rule for doubling the final consonant, I made this flow chart:

Click the picture below to download this flow chart for free!

This phonics lesson goes great with these little characters

(my students where so happy to see these guys again)!

You can purchase these cute letter characters and a whole unit of word ending practice at my TpT store.

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0 sup-ER-hero unit is posted!

This unit might just be my favorite one so far...

Clipart By: JW Illustrations

This unit is designed to teach students about "-er" and "-est" word endings.

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0 sup-ER-heroes (a phonics unit) giveaway! - CLOSED

Have I mentioned before how much I am L.O.V.I.N.G. my Spring Break?

Relaxing and hanging out in my PJs all day has inspired me to create these little superheroes:

These guys will help teach my students about adding "-er" and "-est" to the end of words.

The actual superheroes are "-er" because they are supER.

The first grade superheroes are "-est" because they are the bEST superheroes in the whole world!

(Even better than real, powerful superheroes!)

I am working on a whole entire unit of fun to go along with these character posters!

It isn't finished yet, but the unit will include (and isn't limited to):

*Both Character Posters (-er and -est)

*Games, Games and MORE Games 

*Assessments

*Comparison Activities

*Writing Activities

*Word Sorts

This may be my funnest (ha... I won't teach that word to my students...) unit yet!

I am so excited to teach it to my students, because I know they are going to love it!

Hopefully I can talk my husband into dressing up as a SUPERHERO...

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I am so overwhelmed by how wonderful you all are!

I am so happy you like my units (and I hope your students do, too)!

As a thank you, I want to give this unit away to a lucky reader!

To Enter This Giveaway:

To Enter: Become a follower (or already be one) and leave me a comment to let me know.

Bonus Entry #1: Follow my TpT Store and leave another comment to let me know.

Bonus Entry #2: Tell me in another comment what makes your students supER!

*Make sure each entry is a separate comment!*

I will announce the winner when I finally finish this unit...

(Tuesday, Wednesday... maybe Friday!)

Good Luck!

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0 clowning around (teaching ou & ow)

Last week we learned about the letter pairs "ou" and ow" (example: found, clown). 

My students had a lot of fun with these clown activities and they loved the silly clown posters!

You can purchase this unit at my TpT store.

I am one lucky girl. I work at a really great school with a fantastic faculty. This clown pictured below is a 6th grade teacher (my favorite teacher friend), who helped me out with an "ow" and "ou" phonics lesson. She came into our classroom dressed as a clown with owies (band-aids) all over her! The students were in awe and she had their attention the whole time! They love visitors... especially funny ones! She talked about "ow" and "ou" words and read them a Clifford Circus story. Before she left, she gave them popcorn from the circus (the principal popped it for us) and they were in H.E.A.V.E.N.

These are the cute clown posters that are include in my TpT unit.

I love how they have owies all over them!

We also played "Pin the OWIE on the Clown!" They thought this game was hilarious!

They used real band-aids... we went through a lot of band-aids (how can you not when you are teaching the "ow" sound?)... which isn't really out of the ordinary in first grade...

Anyways, this game is also included in my TpT unit.

Like I said, we went through lots of band-aids...

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ENjOY!

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0 Inflectional Word Endings (-ed, -ing)

Last week we learned about word endings (-s, -ed, -ing).

My students had a lot of fun with these activities and they loved the "ing" and "ed" posters.

You can purchase this unit at my TpT store.

This whole unit was inspired by these little characters I designed:

Notice how the "ed" are old people because--it happened in the past

and the "ing" are first graders because--it is happening now!!

ENjOY!

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