Fynn Sor | Happy Tot Shelf on Instagram: "🔷 One activity, three ways to play! 🎉 Let your little ones explore shapes at different difficulty levels using our all-time favorite toy—magnetic tiles! 🧲✨ What’s your favorite way to learn and play with magnetic tiles? Drop your ideas in the comments—I’d love to hear them! ⬇️ #LearningIsFun #HandsOnLearning #MagneticTiles #EarlyLearning #PreschoolActivities #ToddlerActivities #HomeLearning #connetixtiles"
Melissa | Kindergarten & Elementary Resources on Instagram: "I started doing this chant with my readers this year and this phonics rule stuck with them instantly! My kiddos and I were having rich discussions about what happens to the short vowel /a/ when it is followed by a nasal sound (it becomes “whiny”), but I saw that many of my students were still not able to independently read words with this sound—so I reinforced the concept in a new way! 😊 We are now using this chant and these visuals daily to help us work towards being fluent readers of these words, and other words with “Whiny A” in them! Comment “SLIDES” if you’d like to incorporate these FREE Google Slides visuals into your instruction! . . . . #kindergarten #kindergartenteacher #kindergartenclassroom #kindergartenlit
The Learning Pathway on Instagram: "✨ Science Experiment #23 : Floating Paper Clip ✨ Recommended Age: 4+ years ✨Materials Required: ▫️Fork ▫️Tissue ▫️Paper clip ▫️Water ✨ Procedure: 1. Place a tissue on the fork. 2. Gently place a paper clip on the tissue. 3. Slowly lower the fork with the paper clip into a bowl of water. Watch as the paper clip floats! ✨ Science Behind It: ▫️The paper clip floats due to surface tension. ▫️The tissue helps distribute the weight, allowing the water's surface to hold the paper clip up without sinking. ✨ How to Explain to a Toddler in Story Way: ▫️Imagine the water is a trampoline, and the paper clip is a tiny jumper. ▫️The tissue helps the jumper stay on top without falling through! ✨ Skills Developed: ▫️Curiosity ▫️Problem-solving ▫️Observation
Sher Marshall on Instagram: "😱 I didn’t teach some of these correctly for literally decades. I know many of us make the mistake of adding an “uh” sound after a letter sound. 🚫 For example, we say “buhhh” for the letter B. I teach students that we need to take our scissors and just clip off that extra sound (and then we clip it off with our pretend finger scissors). 👶 If we add that extra sound, then “baby” would be pronounced “bu-ay-bu-ee”. 📌 Save this so you can be sure your kids know the right sounds! #alphbet #lettersounds #preschool #learningletters"
Sher Marshall on Instagram: "🙋♀️Ever wonder why F and V sound so similar? It’s because they’re made the same way—except one buzzes and the other doesn’t. Try it: put your fingers on your throat and say FFFF (no buzz) and then VVVV (feel that vibration?). That’s the key to telling them apart! 💜This applies to other voices/unvoiced pairs like b and p, d and t, g and k and more. Teaching kids to notice this difference helps with reading and spelling. Give it a try and let me know what you felt! #learntoread #earlyliteracy #phonicsforkids #kindergartenmom"
Sher Marshall on Instagram: "🤯 Silent L what the $&@??? Just about every letter in the alphabet is silent sometimes and this is absolutely not a rule but a helpful generalization. You can teach your child that in these spelling patterns, the L is silent: Alk Olk Alv Whether or not, it is silent before M is dependent upon where you live (Palm, salmon). 📌 Save this one, and see if your kids already knew! #Kindergartenmom #preschoolmom #homeschool #firstgrade #PhonicsForKids #EarlyLiteracy #LearnToRead #spelling"
Sher Marshall on Instagram: "😳 Flashcards and writing words over and over are not the most efficient way to learn “sight words”. 🧠 Our brain wants to know how each sound in the word is spelled. Which letters match which sound? 💜 When we emphasize the part of the word that is spelled unexpectedly, we help our brain make a “map” of the word. (That’s the current theory, and it to be much more effective with kids!) 🌈After you have taught a word, this way your child will still need to practice. Instead of traditional “rainbow writing” (writing a word, repeatedly, but in different colors each time), you might have your child write each sound in a different color. So SAID would have three colors: S AI D. ✈️ Send this to a friend who has an early reader! #Kindergartenmom #preschoolm
Sher Marshall on Instagram: "⭐️Before kids can do this, they need a grasp on the difference between open and closed syllables. An open syllable ends in a vowel, and that means the vowel will be long. A closed syllable, ends in a consonant and the vowel will be short. (There are other syllable types, but we aren’t worried about those now.) 1️⃣First kids mark the vowels with the letter V and the consonants between with the letter C. 2️⃣ I first teach my students that when there is only one continent between two vowels we first try splitting the word after the vowel. That will give us an open syllable with a long vowel (like “open” or “belong”). 3️⃣ But if that creates a word that doesn’t make sense, we simply stay flexible and split the word after the consonant, which will change the v
Sher Marshall on Instagram: "⭐️Before kids can do this, they need a grasp on the difference between open and closed syllables. An open syllable ends in a vowel, and that means the vowel will be long. A closed syllable, ends in a consonant and the vowel will be short. (There are other syllable types, but we aren’t worried about those now.) 1️⃣First kids mark the vowels with the letter V and the consonants between with the letter C. 2️⃣ I first teach my students that when there is only one continent between two vowels we first try splitting the word after the vowel. That will give us an open syllable with a long vowel (like “open” or “belong”). 3️⃣ But if that creates a word that doesn’t make sense, we simply stay flexible and split the word after the consonant, which will change the v