Starting kindergarten during a pandemic certainly does not make learning to read easier. Harper struggles with reading. We have spent this week playing word games to help Harper learn her sight words.
We started with a word scavenger hunt. Harper had to read the words she found around the neighborhood.
Then we practiced writing the words from the hunt on a shaving cream board.
I made a game from colored shaving cream. Harper had to find and read the hidden words. Ethan had to find the hidden shapes.
We made letter cookies to spell our Saturday words.
Ethan and Harper snuck a couple cookies so we could not spell some of the words. I also spy a misspelled word in this picture.
Harper was a big fan of word fishing. We used a new set of words on Sunday. I would call out a word and she would use her magnetized fishing pole to catch the word!
Harper used her crayons to color over hot glue gun words on the paper below to reveal the secret word underneath.
In a similar activity, Harper used her markers to discover hidden white crayon words. She then wrote all the words she found on another piece of paper.
I made a couple games to help excite Harper about sight words. The first game we played was Oh Snap! We took turns pulling popsicle sticks from a cup and had to read the word correctly in order to keep the stick. If you pull an Oh Snap! stick, you have to put all your sticks back. It was fun! Ethan kept sneaking sticks for his own cup.
My favorite game was Ally the Word Alligator. She likes to eat word cookies, but only if they are read correctly. If Harper could read the word on the cookie, she could feed it to Ally, who loves to chomp!
In preparing for Easter, we had a glow in the dark Easter egg hunt last night. Each egg had a sight word inside for Harper to read. They had a blast finding the eggs!
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