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My students love puzzles so I created these various puzzles to challenge them but also to help my students get used to using the Chromebooks.  I assigned a few puzzles first with the bookbuddies so the older students could help show the younger students how to use the mouse pad and/or the keyboard arrows.  Once my students got used to the puzzles, I assigned more puzzles individually through Google Classroom. You can find this activity in my TPT store at the following link: A Variety of Puzzles for Google Slides Enjoy! Kemble :-)

My students love spelling on the magnetic white board with the foam letters.  They know that the blue letters are consonants and the red letters are vowels and the purple “y” can be a consonant or a vowel.  I wanted to create a book buddy spelling activity on the Chromebooks that used letters that looked like our magnetic letters the kids use.  You can find this activity in my TPT store at the following link: Let's Spell: Building Words with Letters Enjoy! Kemble :-)

I used to dread doing the How to Sequencing writing unit.  It just seemed really hard for the students to grasp.  This year I decided to really focus on creating booklets that would help my students.  I know it’s good for students to draw the pictures but I decided to put the pictures in for them so they could focus on the writing.  And I also did the unit later in the year when my students had more writing experience.  So I came up with these booklets and this was the first time I enjoyed the unit and my students looked forward to the writing that day.  You can find this activity in my TPT store at the following link: How To Sequencing Booklets Enjoy! Kemble :-)

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I wanted to create a phonics sorting activity that was paperless.  So I created the mat backgrounds that don’t move and then found developmental sequence for speech sounds for early, mid and late emerging speech sounds.  I created the blank slides first and then populated the slides with 4 -6 pictures of each comparing sound.  Each slide compares 2 speech sounds.  I have my students say the picture name out loud and try to hear that first sound and then move that picture under the correct letter. I created this activity to do with my bookbuddies but as I discovered my students wanted to do it outside of the bookbuddies so I would assign a few slides on my Google classroom each tech/center time. You can find this activity in my TPT store at the following link: It Begins with Phonic Mats Enjoy! Kemble :-)

I find syllables are very tricky to teach the Grade Primaries.  I used to teach syllables by clapping them out but I know like to teach syllables by having my students place their hand under their chin and then say the word.  Each time their mouth goes down, it is counted as one syllable.  I created a few worksheets for my students to practice counting syllables and then I created some Google slides.  I assigned those slides to our Google classroom and the kids grabbed the assignment and continued their syllable work.  It actually reinforced the worksheets and I discovered this group of students really took to putting their hand under their chins. You can find this activity in my TPT store at the following link: Syllables - How Many?

I have tablets in my classroom but I also have a few Chromebooks and have been getting my little primary students on them and I am finding they are really enjoying them and at times would rather go on the Chromebooks than the tablets.  So I have started to create a few activities for my students.   One of the activities they love and were asking for were more word searches.  I had some at Christmas time on paper and the class loved them. BUT all schools have a paper budget and I didn't want to print out word searches galore.  I know I could print and laminate word searches but that still means more paper and then more laminate. I knew I could use Google Sheets to create word searches.  And my students love them.  I have put 10 puzzles within one Google Sheet so the students are going to many Google Sheets.  The students just have to click on the next tab to get to the next puzzle.  I didn't want to overwhelm my students so I made each puzzle a 6x6 gride where they had to f