Inside: A fun and handy printable spelling word game to use with any spelling word list. As regular visitors to Childhood 101 will be aware, I am on a constant mission to make learning fun and engaging for kids. Fortunately fun doesn’t have to be difficult. You can use simple materials that are readily available […]
7 Wonderful Word Building Activities
In this post regular contributor, Lauren of Teacher Types, shares seven playful ideas for encouraging children in the early years of school to experiment with building words with a range of materials. “My child knows the Alphabet… Now what?” Word building is a crucial step between knowing the letters of the alphabet and being able […]
Christmas Tree Spelling Quiz
As part of her weekly homework routine Immy (who’s now 6 1/2 and in first grade) has a list of spelling words to revise each night and on Thursday nights she has a mini test, where I call out the spelling list words for her to write. For some time now we have been pretending […]
