When he came home from school yesterday, he immediately noticed the magnetic board. He said, "Look someone left me a message!" He was so excited to read it. I changed the words after dinner so he would have something new to read this morning. And then tonight, we spent about 15 minutes building various sentences with the words.
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| When we were reading the 3rd sentence, there was an "s" after the word "want". It must have gotten moved before I took this picture. |
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| The board is a big as Boogs. |
He is now having a good time with his sight word Christmas present...all it took was a jumbo magnetic board to make it fun. His favorite sentence tonight was "who put it on the cat". After Boogs read it, he looked at the other magnetic words and found the word "small" to place before the word "cat" in our sentence. Then he looked at me and asked, "What is IT? Who put what on the cat? I have to know!" This led him into some story telling to let me know who, what, where, when, and how IT happened to the cat. So much fun! I am definitely going to go back to Terra Toys and get the other big-sized magnetic word kits. A friend of mine told me that she has magnetic tape that works in her label maker. I have a label maker in one of my old teacher boxes. I will have to locate it and see if I can get magnetic tape for it.
I think that everyone I know has that oil pan pinned!! I hadn't really thought of using site words on it. That looks like a great set of words and I think my kids would really enjoy this as well! Now, I just need to figure out where to put it...
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome! I have that oil pan pinned too - but have yet to find a good blank wall space to mount one :) Those word magnets look fun - reminds me of the magnetic poetry everyone had on their lockers in high school :)
ReplyDeleteJulie - the First Words kit is available on amazon.com. I like that this kit has such large letters.
ReplyDeleteWe use the oil pan too! It's it great!
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That's awesome! I love it! visiting from Toys in the Dryer! Such a great idea!
ReplyDeleteI love that the board is so big! What a great idea!
ReplyDeleteVery cool idea! What fun to write notes back & forth =-) Thanks for linking up to TGIF! Have a great weekend,
ReplyDeleteBeth =-)
I didnt realize how cheap they were. This would work great in our classroom.
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