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Magic E Printable Game


While I was on Jury Duty for the month of April, The Geek and I decided something needed to happen so the boys could keep up with school. Especially because they just had a month or so off for our move! Thankfully The Geek’s boss was willing to let him adjust his schedule a bit. So…The Geek took on the role of teacher a few hours each morning!

He is not as obsessed with picture snapping as some people (ahem), but I did beg him to be sure and capture this new game for me! And, these are, literally, the only pictures he took. :-) Maybe I should have been more specific. hahaha

The boys love anything that involves moving around – and especially anything that they have to “find,” let’s forget the part that the words aren’t really hiding…they are in plain sight all over the house…but hey.

Want to get the Magic E Word Hunt Game? All the words in this pack are also words BEFORE the Magic E is added (extra reading practice). You can hide them all around the house or the classroom. There are over 30 words to hunt and read!

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Hope you enjoy this with your kiddos!

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Dolch Sight Word Walls with Thomas & Friends

  Dolch Sight Word Steam Clouds! Dolch Sight Word Steam Clouds!

After making some steam cloud words for Percy to go along with Thing Two’s Raising Rock Stars Preschool sight word list, I am sure you can imagine that Big Brother was just a {tiny} bit jealous! So this mama had to keep working to make him some sight word engines as well.

We’ve have Thomas (with Pre-Primer steam cloud words) and James (with the Kindergaten/Primer words) up on our wall so far. Their steam clouds are raiding clear to the ceiling! In our little apartment there isn’t much space to have them go out the side. After we move in a month we’ll let them wrap around our new school room!

And today, I am sharing them with you! The steam cloud words are in a rainbow of colors, so they will match with either the James, Thomas, or Percy colored engines. {Percy is part of another set, but you could download his set and just print page 2, which has Percy on it, and use him with these Dolch lists.}

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Sight Word Candy Land

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I don’t know about your kids – but mine are obsessed with Candy Land. I, however, am not a huge fan of the never ending game. But, I love my boys and spending time playing a game as a whole family is something I really value. Family games are one of my best childhood memories!

Enter my idea to change up Candy Land into something a little more challenging: Sight Word Candy Land! And, it was indeed a hit with Micah – he loves showing off his reading skills. Thing 2 is a little young yet, but he did know some of the words. Because it is Candy Land younger kids who aren’t learning sight words of reading can still use the colors to move their game piece.

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The following sets are grouped according the Dolch lists for each grade. There are also some blank cards included in each set so you can add other words your kids are learning.

Sight Word Candy Land-PrePrimer Card Set
Sight Word Candy Land-Primer Card Set
Sight Word Candy Land-1st Grade Card Set
Sight Word Candy Land-2nd Grade Card Set
Sight Word Candy Land-3rd Grade Card Set

But wait – there’s more {to come}! Check back with me next week for Addition & Subtraction Fact Candy Land Cards. Micah is cruising along in MUS Alpha and Addition Candy Land Cards would really help him commit those math facts to memory!

And….because, I have to keep you interested, right? :-) I’ll even whip up some multiplication facts cards too for those who have older kids (cause we’ll need them in a year or two ourselves).

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What’s on My Nightstand?

With school officially finishing up I can READ. I will be graduating from the online program at Grand Canyon University (a school which I would never recommend, not even to my worst enemy, btw) with a degree in English Literature (with a lot of other random stops & schools along the way). It took me nearly 10 years, but hey, I finally did it!

Anyway – now I can dive into “fun” reading again! I have books and recommendations piling up from friends and my own wishlist, as well as some to review for actual publishers (gotta love free books!).

Here’s what’s on my short list:

  1. One Month to Live by Kerry & Chris Shook – finished this and my reaction is blah. Read my review here. Just not my cup of tea! But I know others have really enjoyed it and taken away a lot of insight…but not me.
  2. Real Marraige by Mark & Grace Driscoll – finished this and currently working on a review for Booksneeze.com
  3. Light of Edion by Karen Hancock – yea yea yea so excited to “open” this one up on my Kindle, it was FREE a few days ago on amazon.com! Loved The Areana, which I read almost 8 years ago. Awesome, so awesome. Hopefully this one is just as good. It is a “book one” so you know what that means…if I get hooked I’ll have to search for the others.
  4. The Book of Matthew (in the Bible) by Matthew/God (haha) -  This is for a Kay Aurthur Bible Study I am doing with some friends.
  5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – Sounds like a very interesting read. This YA reading recommendation came to me by a former youth group kid (aka my babysitter/adopted little sister/bff’s daughter), who is now off to college…okay that makes me sound old. Anywho, I have read several YA books I would have never picked up on my own thanks to her recommendations, and she hasn’t steered me wrong yet. :-) Yes, I like a little teen-angst and drama among my grown up life…creates a nice vacation from mommy-world. :-)

Well that’s what I hope to have read within the next month. I actually have a want/goal/idea to write a little review of anything I read form now on. Why not? It is not only a good writing exercise, but it is also fun…to me…since I love writing just about anything…besides maybe a research paper. :-)

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