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Eight Great Ways to Teach Long Vowel Words

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ In this post, I am going to tell you eight great ways to teach kids to read words with long vowel sounds!  I have been working hard at this with the intervention kids this year in my second grade class, and we have really been enjoying some of these activities!  The great thing is that the techniques are not only fun, but very effective as well! It does feel a little bit strange to know that I have done m...
   

Mother’s Day Ideas, and Baby Chicks on the Way!

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This week we have been wrapping up some loose ends.  We tested on subtraction on Thursday, and will be starting problem solving on Friday and next week.  We also have been finishing up our unit on insects, and starting to learn about chicks and other animals that hatch from eggs.  Plus, we are getting ready for Mother’s Day, so we have been wrapping our presents and writing cards.  So this hopefully will give you some ideas for Mother’s Day if you are trying to figure out what to do with your own class!  One thing I would like to point out is that there were GOBS of great ideas offered up on my HeidiSongs Facebook page a week or so ago when I asked people to post their favorite ideas for Mother’s Day projects.  So if you don’t find anything you can use in this blog entry, maybe there will be an idea you can use there.  In any case, good luck! 1.  Mother’s Day Guided Drawing Greeting Card If you have been following my blog for very...