Spelling Doesn't Have to Be Boring!

A picture is worth a thousand words.  So...I am giving you two thousand tonight!  Spelling doesn't have to be boring...in fact, it can be fun!  Just look at the picture below of one of my shining stars.  He makes my day every day!

My kids are given a 'spelling menu' at the beginning of every year which helps them find knew ways to practice their spelling words.  We encourage them to be creative.  Just look!

As you can see, he is proud of his orange!  His spelling words are written on the shapes.  The mobile now hangs from my lights in my classroom!

Give a kid some chalk and....well.....he might do some spelling!!

I thought you might enjoy a new take on an old subject!

You Know You Are Back to School When....

Yep, that is right folks...I already have an empty cartridge in my purse to get get refilled!  I was in the middle of printing these babies for my team when everything went blank!  I am linking up with Jeannie over at Kindergarten Lifestyle for this post.




She has so many great linky parties!  Usually I try to come up with a few witty responses, but this time, I am just dog tired, so this is what you get!  I figured I would share something useful!

It is a bit blurry because I had to take a screen shot of it, but this is the thing that saves me from headache woes!  The kids use this menu to pick what they want to do for homework.  =)  It makes them more interested and keeps me from having to think up something interesting for spelling homework!! If you want to take a look at it, just click on the picture!

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