I Made a Blog!

I'm so excited to be blogging (and really impressed with myself for figuring it out!) So hello world, I'm Melissa. I teach 1st grade, obviously, and I love reading other blogs so I thought I'd try and contribute. I've been silently stalking many teacher blogs and "stealing" wonderful ideas. I feel like I owe many of you some ideas in return (not sure I have any great original ideas though).

I totally loved the monster gift bags that Babbling Abby used to make a word sort. My dollar tree didn't have the cute bags she found so I made these little guys. I've seen tons of classrooms with sound muncher type things so this is my attempt at that. I introduced these "Phoneme Friends" in the work with words station this week and they were a hit!

These are made out of old Crystal Light containers (does anyone else hoard plastic containers?). I cut a little slit in their mouths for the kids to stick the words in. The labels are just sticky notes so I can change them every week.

These are the word cards and the directions.

And I had the kids record some of the words on this sheet. I saw a sheet very similar on someone else's blog but I can't remember due to the numerous awesome blogs I've been lurking around lately. And here comes my favorite part...

They fit in the drawers that hold my work with words activities! Yea for neat storage!
I have the critters and worksheet saved but seeing as how I'm new to this whole blogging thing it may take me a little while to figure that out! I'll share as soon as I learn how.

And that's it for my first post. I feel so accomplished!!