Beginning/Ending Sound Bats

Next week my team and I are starting our Nocturnal Animal Unit.  One of my reading groups needs more practice with beginning and ending sounds.   This is something I made for this group.  First, I love to practice what we are learning using a pocket chart. I am going to place the pictures you see above in the pocket chart and have volunteers come up and help find the beginning and then ending sound. They will place the beginning sound to the left of the picture and the ending sound to the right of the picture. I have made letters to go along with this part.

  After practicing and when I feel they are ready... into a literacy station it will go! I plan on making the bats into a book (you know how I love to laminate and bind my stuff :)  and have the children use foam or magnetic letters in the boxes. If you don't have letters, you can always have them write using dry erase markers.   I have made a recording sheet  to go along with the activity.  If you would like a copy of my activity,  please click on the picture above. 

Graphics: Scrappin Doodles!

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Bat Wings and Rhyming Things!

I love Halloween!  At my school we are not allowed to have Halloween "stuff" but we do a nocturnal animal unit and a pumpkin unit around this time of year. So, that sort of makes up for not being able to have Halloween things up.

I still have little ones who have difficulty rhyming.  I made this bat rhyming sort for one of my guided reading groups.  First, we are going to read, 5 Little Bats together, discuss what a rhyming word is and then circle the rhyming words in the poem. I have the poem below for you. I like using this poem because it integrates great with our math standards.  Then, I'm going to get my little ones to help me sort the rhyming, not rhyming bats in the pocket chart.  Later, I will put the trees and the bats in a literacy station along with the recording sheet.

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