"What are Your 5 Favorite Holiday Activities to do with Your Kids?"

My family and I love the holidays, So many great and fun things you can do with your kids. My kids are getting older so my holiday activities change a bit from year to year.

My top 5 things I do with my kids for the holidays

1. We love to string popcorn for tree decorations, We never get tired of doing this.The little ones will enjoy this on this year!

2. We love to come up with new and fun things to decorate our snowmen with, kind of a game on who can come up with the most unique item.

3. Making holiday cookies was my favorite as a kid, and now is my favorite with my kids.

4. We really enjoy making paper snowflakes, all sizes and colors. We decorate the house and windows with them.

5. Decorating pinecones is a must for my kids and I, we like using glitter, paint and anything we can find, we put these on the tree!

I would love to here what you guys do with your family during the holidays.
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What are Sight Words?

Sight words are words that your child needs to quickly recognize in order to read fluently. The “fry words” are a list of the most common sight words ranked in order of frequency.  (There is also the Dolch list of 220 words, but our elementary school uses the Fry list.)

Most "fry" lists I’ve seen have a total of 600 words. The first 100 words on his list are the most common words and make up about ½ of everything that we read. So if kids learn to read these common words on sight, it makes reading so much easier for them.

My kids get bored with doing flashcards over and over, but repetition is what helps kids be able to recognize the words instantly. I found that I needed a way to keep the kids interested while learning. I will be posting some of the sight word games that have worked for my kids. Hopefully one or more of these will work your kids.

Sight Word Game Ideas
Sight Word Path
Sight Word Path - Dice Variation
Sight Word  Go Fish

More coming soon . . .










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