For a fun review today, I got out all the LA matching and sorting cards I could find that related to our first several weeks of learning. I put them all around the room, about 9 stations. This was not a Daily 5 day, but I wanted to do something different for this review along with some fun because I'm SOOO happy it's Friday. I am a believer in flash cards for math (simple, but true), and I actually treasure all of my LA matching/sort cards (all found from amazing teachers on TpT and Dollar Tree!) We worked on prefixes, synonyms, antonyms, author's purpose, cause/effect, and homonyms (graphs, phones). We have our campus based assessment next Wednesday, so we will be matching and sorting as part of our review. Here are my babies absolutely LOVING just playing/learning on the floor with their buddies! They all got to try several stations.
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| Sorting paragraphs for author's purpose |
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| These kiddos are matching homophone definitions to words. |
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Last weekend AND last summer I found some great cards at Dollar Tree. The kids below here are matching the synonym and antonym cards I found. I saw them there again just last weekend (10/5/13), so they should still be there!
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| Dollar Tree cards for matching. |
Here are some TpT links to some free center activities so you can pick up some awesome stuff for your classroom! Thanks to all the wonderful teachers represented below!
The Power of Flashcards
I am always throwing together matching games for working with words. I put these in my Daily 5 centers as extra activities (See photo in previous post). The most recent one I created is "academic vocabulary". It is not EVERYTHING we do and learn, but it is a good chunk of it. There are word cards and matching definition cards. The kids use these matching games in several ways. They will use them as flashcards where one of them has to come up with the definition or word on their own. It is so cute because I hear them trying to come up with sophisticated definitions, and the other student "accepts" it as ok. They play concentration games where they turn all the cards face down and try to match them, and sometimes they just face them all up and match them together. I haven't given any instructions on how to use them, and they do great just "playing" with them. I am beginning to think that these cards are very powerful in their learning. Given mastery is not just memorization, knowing what the word means is the beginning of mastery and application, and flashcards are a first step. I've seen mastery much earlier in the areas where I've used the cards. They use them often when they finish the main activity and there is still time left in that rotation. I keep throwing them into the rotation! I was amazed that by spring, they really knew their stuff. I've got cards for antonyms, synonyms, prefixes, suffixes, text features, fiction/non-fiction sorts, academic vocabulary, and many more.
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