Fun with Sight Words

I saw this neat post and followed the link back to The Everyday Homeschool blog where I saw this neat game for sight words. It is a fun way to learn to spell and recognize sight words.
 I have also made 3 ring books for each level of sight words. I bought the 3 ring scrapbooks at the Dollar Tree and put one sight word in black ink on each page. This limits the distractions for my kids. There are no bright colors, pictures or doodads on the page so they can focus on what each word is and the spelling. Pitty-pat can recognize all of them this way but stumbles over them when reading in a book with other print like her Little House book.
Tippy-toe also is working with the phonics object box I made. He loves to get a drawer out and work with it. This is a very montessori thing.  Montesssori works well for kids with RAD.

Fabric letters and numbers

I found this great idea for fabric letters from counting coconuts (who I follow for great ideas )saw at ohsohappytogether . I plan to make these instead of sandpaper montessori letters. He hates anything rough and loves his fleece. Even at 2 weeeks of age he could tell the difference between the feel of  two fleece blankets. I think all three small ones at my house will love these.

Phonics object boxes

I have been working on my phonics object boxes. here is my new list. By the way, I just love the Wades minature figurines that come in Rose Tea! they are perfect for this and my kids love them. I found my first ones at a garage sale for a dollar for 5 of them. There are over 2,500 wades figurines. I think I may start collecting them. Tonight when we went to Walmart I bought a box of tea and the little green christmas tree came in it for $3.12. The tea is good too!
In the phonics boxes the ones marked with a (*) are little plastic toys we already had in the depths of my toy box.
A
apple ( I made from felt)
alligator (plastic toy)

B
baby bottle (*)
bouncy balls
Beaver (Wade)
bear (Wade)
box (made for greeting card)
brass bell (antique store $2)
boot(*)
picture of hot air balloon

c
cat puzzle
car(*)
cross eraser(*)
cup

d
doll(*)
duck(*)
dice
picture of girl drinking from a water bottle

e
elephant (Wade)

f
falcon (Wade)
flower
fork(*)

g
girl paper doll(*)
green paint chip

h
hammer(*)
horse (*)
heart (cut from felt)
picture of hands holding red heart
hat

i
inspector guy (*)

j
jack

k
kite
plastic letter k

l
lion (Wade)
lemon(*)
leaf(cut from plastic floral arangement)

M
man or mayor (Wade ringmaster figurine)
marble
map cut from picture and laminated
mirror(*)

N
nickle

o
owl (Wade)
ox (*)
orange slice (*)

p
pink paint chip
pink pig
plastic pig(*)
guitar pick
porcelain poodle

q
quarter

r
rino (Wade)
ring
rose (from same plastic flower arrangement)
ribbon
rock
round circle

s
sheep(*)
shoe (*)
screw
spider (*)

T
tiger (Wade)
tree (Wade)

u
umbrella

v
picture of vioets cut from magazine
picture of violin

w
wood block

x

y
yellow yarn ball

z
zebra picture (cut out and laminated)

phonics object box

Pitty-pat really wants to learn to read like his big sis. I started a phonics object box. I found a 26 drawer box at Menard's for under $13.00. I took some alphabet stickers from my scrapbook pile and labeled the drawers. Today I found some miniatures at a garage sale for $1.00 to go with what I found here at home. i printed some flash cards from SparkleBox.com.uk We are already playing name a word that starts with the "..." sound for each letter of the alphabet. He is a wiz at that game! It won't take him long to read with his level of desire right now.