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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! __________________________________________________________________________ This CVC Words and Sounds Cookie Sheet Bundle Activity with Plastic Letters is a fun and easy way for young children to practice finding the beginning, middle, and ending sounds of CVC words, and then practice spelling the whole word.  When we used this in my classroom, I had GREAT results! Kids love using plastic letters, especially when they are magnetic! So the activity is even more engaging by providing a cookie sheet or other b...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Do you teach first grade?  Here is a round-up of my favorite literacy center ideas for those Fabulous Firsties!  Many of these will also work for advanced Kindergartners, too, of course!  And if you haven't heard the news, well, it's TRUE!  I'll be teaching a first/second grade combination class next year!  My mind has been whirling with ways to adapt these ideas to the concepts taught in second grade as wel...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Do your students all have rhyme mastered? Teaching children to rhyme can be a very difficult thing when working with children that have not had many literacy experiences at home. Without a doubt, the very best way to teach a child to rhyme is in the lap of a parent who has read books that rhyme and pointed out those rhyming words to the child since birth! But teachers are expected to teach all of the students the standards, whether or not the...

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 an idea I came up with a few years ago called CVC Cups!  They help kids practice finding the middle sounds of CVC words.  My kids really like this activity, and I hope that yours will, too! :) To prepare this activity, you will need to find some clear cups and some solid colored cups.   Both cups must be about the same size so that they fit together well as shown in the photo.  Fin...