Thursday, February 24, 2011

Yucky Word Building Center


      I was typing this post last night, when all of the sudden I started feeling very yucky.  I am feeling a little better but not much.  Any way,  when teaching these sounds, I have always told my students that sometimes these four vowel digraphs (ou, ew, oo, and ue) say "EWWWW,"  like when you see something really gross.  So to help them remember this, I made this Yucky Word Building spelling Center.   The teacher would first cut out the pictures and put them in an empty tissue box. In the center students use boogies and tissues (the pictures the teacher cut out) from the box to build words.  If you click on the image above, you can download the whole center.  I suggest printing it on card stock so it will hold up better. 

     I also made a contractions spelling center to go with Green Eggs and Ham for our Dr.  Seuss unit next week.  Someone else posted something similar, but I cannot remember or find who that was.  I want to give credit to the person that inspired me when I post it.  If you know who I am talking about, please tell me! :)

7 comments:

  1. This has to be one of THE cutest activities I have seen so far for word building! I love it! Very creative! Thank you so much for sharing it with all of us and for providing us with ALL of the necessary materials for the unit. Its hard enough to find the time to put together all of the units, write up all of the lesson plans, cook, clean, be a wife, find time for ourselves, etc. So, I think it is amazing when we all help each other out and provide our teaching friends with a little oomph! to get their creative juices flowing in their teacher brains! You rock!

    Chantelle

    www.theteachingbug.blogspot.com

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  2. Oh my gosh! Oh SOOOOO cute..........I love your idea and how you weaved it into such a fun and practical (not to mention:amazingly creative) activity!!!
    MY kids are going to love this b/c I am such a germaphobe........I can't wait to implement this and we have just begun to discuss vowel combinations.......Thanks so much for your generosity.

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  3. I love this! You are so creative. Thanks for sharing your hard work!

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  4. I LOVE this! My kids are going to be thrilled to use this at their word work center...especially my boys! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with us!

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  5. I am so glad you like it. I almost didn't post it because I thought "They are going to think I'm crazy!" HAHA Well now you know! :)

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  6. This is such a great idea. My kids are going to have so much fun with it. Thank You!

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  7. My Boys are going to LOVE LOVE LOVE this!!! You are a genius!! Haha!!

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