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Short Vowel CVC Words : Centers

May 22, 2016 By Mercedes Hutchens Leave a Comment

Short Vowel CVC Words Center Activities

Are you looking to increase your Kindergarten or 1st graders fluency when reading Short Vowel CVC Words? After looking at Dibels data, it was clear a group of students needed help with reading real and nonsense short vowel words.  Here are some simple centers I used to give them a lot of fun and meaningful […]

Filed Under: 1st Grade, Kindergarten, Language Arts, Reading Tagged With: 1st Grade, Kindergarten, Phonics, Reading


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7+ Ways to Practice Sight Words

January 8, 2016 By Mercedes Hutchens 2 Comments

Do you play sight word games with your Kindergarteners and 1st Graders? Here are more than 7 fun hands on sight word activities.

What are your favorite sight word games and activities? As an intervention teacher, I’ve had several groups of students who needed help learning sight words. I’ve tried several different strategies over the years and I’ve settled on a routine that has proven highly effective for sight word intervention. I look at their latest sight word […]

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Fact Families: Add and Subtract within 18

September 20, 2015 By Mercedes Hutchens Leave a Comment

Making connections between addition subtraction is so important.  I love using fact families for this. Fact Family “Turn Around” Dance To introduce fact families, we do the turn around dance.  Kids hold up a fact and we sing as they make a new fact that is true.  It helps them see a great visual and […]

Filed Under: 1st Grade, Fact Fluency, Kindergarten, Math Tagged With: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, Add, Subtract


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Using Dollar Bills to Teach Place Value

August 2, 2015 By Mercedes Hutchens Leave a Comment

Anytime we can relate a math lesson to real life, student interest increases.  My go to real life example is money.  Over the years, whenever teachers dump things on the free table, I collect the play money.  I’ve used it from Kinder to 6th grade and the enthusiasm never dwindles. Play Money as a Math […]

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, Math, Place Value


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