Homeschool: Sight word fun

The oldest girl was struggling with reading and sight words. It was a fight to get her to even read the books the came from school through the program book in a bag.

Doing anything homeschool related that had to do with reading was a nightmare. I decided I need to come up with a fun way to learn the basic sight words.

I picked up a cheap box of "tumbling tower" from dollaramma. Each block I wrote a sight word on the block from the master list of sight words.

Blaine also loves this game, he does better with seeing and memorizing the words so this works for him too and it is so much fun!

How the game works:

You take a block out like you normally would. You have to read the word on your block. Playing this game has made it so much fun for her and now she has almost all the basic sight words down pat.

About another week of playing this game after each homeschool session and I will get a new set of blocks and add the second list of sight words on those blocks.

This is an earned game she must complete all of her homeschool activities in order to be able to play this with me.

Using it as a "reward" has made learning less of a fight and more of a fun experience for both of us.

Every child learns different and it is just about finding what works with each child!

Do you have homeschool games that work?

Homeschool: Term 2 Week 2 Sk

We are working in the workbook "educational workbook numbers K" I likely got this book from one of the dollarstores. We are reading a different book each day this time so it will be list under the daily activities.

We are also working on printing for this I took a highlighter and wrote out on each page the letters. I will add a photo of what I am talking about so it is easier to understand.

I could not for the life of me get Homer to work  so we are going to try to get it to work this week.


Each day this week we will be doing a game. Such as Jenga or Trouble.



Day 1:

Sight word "to" flash cards, The Penguin Chick guided science readers by scholastic, workbook, homer, walk, printing, Jenga

Day 2:

Sight word "to" work sheet, What is cold? guided science readers by scholastic, workbook, ABC mouse, walk, play group, printing, Trouble

Day 3:

Sight word matching game, Can you do this? by scholastic, workbook, Homer, walk, library, printing, Porcupine Pop


Day 4:


Sight word "to" flash cards, I am bigger by scholastic, workbook, ABC Mouse, walk, printing, Guess who


Day 5:


Sight word "to" worksheet, What am i? by scholastic, workbook, Home, walk, printing, Operation




Why add games?  Did you know along with learning how to take turns children also learn a multitude of other skills from playing board games?

Children learn through doing, so do most people, they also learn through play.

Things learnt from board games:

Critical thinking
Fine motor skills
Gross motor skills (depending on the game)
Sharing
Taking turns
Math (Counting)


And sooo much more depending on the games you are playing. Plus they are so much fun they don't even realize they are learning.