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Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!
We're all about doodling lately. Are your kiddos into it, too? Doodling with regular pencils. Doodling with scented pencils. Doodling with scented crayons, and those Mr. Sketch gel crayons and markers of all kinds... Basically any type of writing utensil they can get their hands on, they're using it to doodle! 
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So I thought I'd meet them where they're at with their interest in doodling, and find a way to sneak some fun phonics practice into their doodle time. Which leads me to introduce Doodle-It Phonics! A doodling notebook that draws (haha, bad mom joke!) a kid's focus and attention to phonics while letting them exercise and explore their creative side at the same time.Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

Doodle-It can be used as individual worksheets, or it can also be glued into a composition or regular notebook to create an interactive book that students can flip through time and time again. It covers a wide range of phonics. It includes Alphabet, CVC & Rhyming, Digraphs, Blends, & Long Vowel practice.

There are two ways you can have your learners doodle... they can use guided doodling version, or they can jump right into it and try it on their own. The guided version helps them write words and shows a picture so that they can see a visual of the word and either doodle their own version of the object or doodle one like the picture. They can doodle the word as well! Instructions and examples are included in the download.
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

You decide how you want to use this resource. You can use the 180 pages here and there as you need them, or you can pick and choose what sounds you're currently working on and create a spiral or stapled notebook for students to hang on to. If you use a 3 prong folder, you can continue to add to it all throughout the year!

You'll notice that on the guided doodling version, students have the option to repeat the picture already shown, or they could also draw their own. At this age, some students don't know where to start when it comes to drawing, so I wanted to make sure that even reluctant drawers had a starting place...even if it meant just attempting to doodle the picture already shown. 
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

Another interactive Phonics notebook that I use with my kids is this Phonics Poetry Notebook that includes original poetry from my good friend from Let's Learn S'more
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

This Phonics Poetry Notebook gives kids a hands-on approach to learning and practicing their reading skills. There are four versions included for each focus. One version has students writing in the various vowels, diphthongs, blends, or digraphs. The other doesn't. And both of these come in either a less-ink, color-me option or a full color option.
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

Students cut these out on the solid line and glue them in a composition or spiral notebook, which allows them to continually review prior ones completed! Woohoo! 
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

Labels are an option that are also included to put on the cover. 
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

Here's what's covered in this book. Pick and choose what you need:
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

The Phonics Poetry Book is also available in a Poetry Books Big Bundle:
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

The bundle includes five different types of poetry books that you can mix and match or do separately. 
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

Well, that's a phonics overload for today. Thanks for letting me share these with you. I hope your littles love and enjoy them. I also hope they make your teaching life just a tad bit easier! 

-Til next time
       
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!
Grandparents Day activities for kids
Grandparents Day is just a few weeks away (September 10th) so I thought I'd share some activities that you can use with your kiddos in celebration of their loved ones.

This day is a really hard one for me to blog about, as it brings to mind memories of many dear grandparents who are no longer with us. At the time that these activities were made, a very special Great-Grandma had just passed. These resources were made in special honor of her.

Alright, let's brush those tears aside and dive into some things that will give your littles a chance to appreciate and celebrate the grandparents in their lives!

You never know what activity or craft their grandparents will hold dear to their hearts. Earlier this year, Great-Grandpa also passed. Amongst some of his belongings was one of the Love Notes (I'll show you them below) that one of my kids had written him from this resource pack! So I encourage you to encourage your students to pass on their completed cards, coloring pages, and notes to their grandparents. It will be a very special to them if it was saved and they receive it back some day.

So the "We Love Grandparents" pack includes 22 pages that you can print and use. It was made with Kindergarten in mind, but can be used for Preschool and even First Grade.
Grandparents Day math and literacy activities for kindergarten first grade preschool
It has both Upper and Lower case Alphabet letter tracing practice. Number tracing too. Multiple mazes with no blocks give all learners a chance to succeed. Students can make it harder if they'd like by drawing in their own blocks! Phonics beginning, middle vowel (CVC), and end sounds practice has adorable grandparent pictures on them.

And here are the Love Notes I mentioned above. There are a bunch to choose from, including a foldable card! A color-by-number and also coloring sheet are included for some color word fun.

Some simple syllable and measurement activities will give students the extra practice they may need. And some simple cut-out puzzles in both black/white and full color are also available. *Note that not all of the pages included in the pack are shown here in the blog.*

Does your school host a Grandparents Day event?
If so, you may want to pull some of these activities for your littles to do with their special person(s)! This next activity is perfect for that...

Grandparents Day BINGO!
(High Frequency Word style!)

If Grandparents are coming (and even if they're not) this is an excellent way for students to show off the sight words they've learned so far. It's also an easy opportunity for their grandparents to take part in helping them if needed!

There are THIRTY Bingo cards to choose from.

And the following 48 words are scrambled amongst the various boards:

The calling cards are LARGE so that all students (and grandparents) can easily see them from the front of the room.


Enjoy preparing for Grandparents Day for your littles! I know that their loved ones will appreciate the time and effort you spend making their special day memorable!

-Til next time
       
Grandparents Day activities for kids kindergarten

Grandparents Day activities for Kindergarten and First Grade
It's Polar Habitat time! 
One of my favorite themes to incorporate in the classroom.
To get you started, I have this FREE quick-print Polar themed Color-by-Number just for you!
There's also information inside the download about how you can get your hands on even MORE Polar Habitat fun.

Need more FREE resources? How about these Penguin Poetry pages...

What else can you do to bring your Polar Unit to life?
Do you need more art ideas?
This Polar Bear Print is a favorite of mine, 

Or what about these cute egg carton penguins from KiwiCrate...
Cute, Cute, Cute!

Don't forget fun games for your classroom:
I ordered this game from MPMSchoolSupplies.com to go along with our Polar Animals unit. This game offers a fun way for students to develop logical thinking skills and spatial reasoning abilities. Plus, let's admit it, it's just downright adorable! 

The back of the box gives an example of what the game and pieces looks like: 

The blue tray was quite a bit smaller than I was expecting, but then I realized that if it were larger, then the pieces would have to be larger and that might make it more difficult for students to use.

Five penguin ice floes are included of various shapes. The penguins slide up and down on the pieces, causing the pieces to take a new form. This alone take the game to a whole new level!

Did I mention already how CUTE the penguins are? Ok, just checking!

 A Challenge Book is included for kids to use. It offers Starter, Junior, Expert, and Master challenges. As well as...answer keys! (Phew, thank goodness, haha!)

Students must work to put the penguins in the matching places on the blue game tray.

Directions are included in the front inside cover of the Challenge Book:

This is what Starter challenges looks like:

Here are some Junior challenges:

And a sample of Expert challenges:

And finally, some of the Master challenges:

Thank goodness for Answer Keys! {wink!}

 My kids wanted to instantly start with the Master challenges, but quickly learned they needed to start with the Starter ones first. This is my son, who is going into 2nd grade, attempting to solve some of the Starter challenges. He didn't realize at first that the penguin his right hand is touching, slides up and down the ice floe, creating a new shape for the piece.

 It took him a good fifteen minutes before figuring out the first Starter challenge! Even my husband took a stab at helping him out. (Were we just making this more complicated than it needed to be? Or do we as a family just need more practice on our logical thinking skills, lol!)

I loved watching him think as he worked. It's actually a lot harder than you may think! Take a try yourself, you might be surprised!

I very highly recommend this game! It's a ton of fun and will be a great surprise to pull out during our Polar Animals unit. I'm thinking the kids can do it at indoor recess as well.

You can find Penguins on Ice and other games like it under the Critical Thinking Games tab at MPM School Supplies.



Wishing you tons of Polar Winter Fun!
~Til next time
           

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