Learning Synonyms

This week we are learning about synonyms, words that mean the same thing.  I placed the words on the left and Olive had to match the synonym on the right.

These useful cards came from Montessori For Learning.  It's a wonderful site with great resources.

Word Puzzles

Olive really enjoys these word puzzles. They were easy to make by cutting up picture cards with words. This activity helps her identify the spelling of the word with the picture. You can click here, here, and here to find three letter words and their pictures. You can play a memory match-up, or cut them to make a word puzzle.
 

Jem enjoyed using chop sticks to move the pom-poms.

Word Sliders

You are going to love this....

Olive enjoys reading so I made these fun word slides to show her just how many words she knows with common endings.

Word Endings and letter:
it, use letters- f, k, w, b, h, l, p, s
at, use letters-b, c, f, h, m, p, r, s
ip, use letters-d, h, l, r, s, t, z
an, use letters- p, r, t, v
ig, use letters- j, p, r,w, b, d, f, g

I started making them on my own and then I found my "Easy button" here.  I am planning to use the workbox system for homeschooling this year and thought these would be a good addition and something encouraging that Olive can do on her own.

I printed the pages out and laminated them with my Scotch TL901, lets just say that I've been a laminating fool!