Word Family Fishing

Happy Labor Day weekend friends!

How did you celebrate the weekend and enjoy your time off?

I went down to St. Augustine to visit a friend who gets a condo down there for the week around this time each year and I took my Mom to lunch to celebrate her birthday.  There should be a 3 day weekend at least once a month, they're so rejuvenating!  

I also just wrapped up and posted a new fishing game!  Word Family Fish and Sort is waiting for you to check it out on TpT.  

There are 5 fishing and sorting games total, one for each vowel.  Students fish for a word and sort it into the appropriate category.  When all of the words have been sorted they record them on a sorting sheet.

I'm going get these started as soon as possible (will post pic's!) because this is great practice for the beginning of first grade.  Inevitably a few of my students tend to lose a some of their word family and rhyming over the summer.  I'm hoping this practice will engage them as they cement this knowledge.

I will email a free copy of this fishing game to the first 5 people to follow my blog and leave a comment!  Don't forget to include your email address in your post!

That's it for now.  Stay tuned for a couple freebies later this week!

Happy teaching!

Fishing Poles For Sale!

Caps!  

Caps for sale!

50 cents a cap!

I love that book : )  I especially like to change it to:

Kids!

Kids for sale!

50 cents a kid!

....you know, when my students are getting a little crazy.  They think it's hilarious.....they don't know I'm serious.

I didn't log in to tell you about Caps for Sale or even Kids for Sale.  I DID log in to tell you about: FISHING POLES FOR SALE! <- - - -That's in all caps because I just yelled it at the computer screen.

After all the glorious feedback I received about the magnetic fishing poles I made for my good buddy Cheryl over at Primary Graffitti, I've decided to try selling them on Etsy!  This past week I made 11 new sets.

Close up of the hand-painted designs

Each order comes with 2 hand-painted magnetic fishing poles for the low low low price of $7 + s&h!  At this time they are available in green, orange, and yellow.  For now they will be packaged with a ribbon (because I've got a lot of ribbon to run through)!  I hope you'll stop by and check out my new Etsy store!  Pick up some magnetic fishing poles and maybe a few new fishing games to go with it!