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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Hello, everyone!  Happy Monday!  Today I am going to tell you about some fun I have been having teaching children to "code phonics chunks" with smelly markers in the first grade classroom that I have been volunteering in each week! I am very blessed that my good friend Mary, who is a first grade teacher at the wonderful school that I used to work at, is willing to let me come in and work with her students.  As some of yo...

Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Today I am going to tell you about a very simple idea that I call CVC Legos!  These CVC Legos make a great literacy center activity for children to practice reading and matching CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words to their pictures, which is a Common Core skill. Meanwhile, I have to tell you that last weekend I presented at the International Reading Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas, and it was an absolute blast and ...

This week I am going to share with you some fun things for March, including a St. Patrick’s Day leprechaun guided drawing lesson and a new free downloadable game.  So buckle up, here we go! Guided Drawing Leprechaun Lesson I started drawing up the directions for this lesson while sitting on the plane from LAX to Columbia,  on my way to SDE’s South Carolina Kindergarten Conference , and then finished it in Chicago at the IL ASCD PreK/K Conference !  (Both conferences were GREAT, by the way!) Since it has been a really long time since I had posted a guided drawing lesson freebie, I thought it would be a fun to post another timely one here.   If you do this with your students, I would love it if you send me a photo of their completed pictures, or post one on Facebook or Pinterest and let me know that it is there! My wonderful job share partner and my aide did this lesson with my little ones while I was gone this week and then sent me the pict...