My Word Walls

I'm joing Ms. M's linky party as my very first time as a participant!  Yahoo!  Even though it's the end of the year and I already took one of them down, I decided to put all the words back up just to take a picture for this.  Here is my sight word "popcorn" word wall.  We learn songs to learn how to spell each of these words over the course of the year.  Then they go up on our wall.  I also put the students' names on this wall but have taken them down already.  There are magnets on the back for when I was in my old room that had a magnetic white board.  I had to improvise this year and had to use those sticky clips instead to make the words moveable.  That way my thinkers can take the words down to work with them if they need to.
We also have a sight word popcorn game that we play with these words that I have blogged about below.  I plan on sprucing it up a bit more with a colored background next year.  With moving classrooms this year, it was not a top priority.

My other word wall is on the opposite end of the room on our closet doors and is an environmental print word wall. 

At the beginning of the year, many kinder thinkers are nervous because they don't know how to read.  I help them to ease the transition into reading and help them to see themselves as readers through a unit on environmental print.  For this activity, students are sent home with a baggie and are asked to bring back 5 environmental print words that they cut from boxes, magazines, wrappers, and newspapers.  Since they can read these words, they begin to see themselves as readers.

Then we spend some time figure out what letter to put each item underneath.  They love this word wall especially in the beginning of the year.  They also use it throughout the year when they are finding words around our room to write down during our read the room write the room center.

So there are my word walls.  I'm looking forward to checking out some other blogs who link up for Ms. M's ward wall linky party!

15 comments:

  1. Your so wonderful putting up the words just to participate. Thanks! Your word wall is super cute. Love the popcorn.

    I ADORE your environmental print wall. I will have to do that next year. Brilliant idea.

    Ms. M
    Ms.M's Blog
    A Teacher's Plan

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  2. Thanks, Ms. M! I was excited to join your linky party and it wasn't too difficult since I already had the sticky clips up. Thank you for your kind comments! =)

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  3. I love your idea for the environmental print word wall! I"m definitely going to make one for next year! Thanks for sharing!

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  4. Just wondering if I could blog about your environmental print word wall? I would give you full credit but would love to use your picture! I think this is fabulous. Let me know!

    www.littlemisskindergarten.blogspot.com

    laralrcoe@aol.com

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  5. I'm glad you like it Jessica and Mrs. Coe. Feel free to blog about it Mrs. Coe. That's what sharing is all about. =)

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  6. Ok-so I have permission to use your picture? I will provide a link and give you credit for this! I just love the idea!

    www.littlemisskindergarten.blogspot.com

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  7. Yes, you do Mrs. Coe! I wrote you an e-mail today, too. =)

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  8. Have you seen the big popcorn buckets at Target? They come in red, blue and green and you can store all kinds of stuff in them! I thought of you! I can send you a picture if you want!

    www.littlemisskindergarten.blogspot.com

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  9. They are different from the small bag looking ones!

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  10. Nice! No, I haven't seen them yet at Target, but I'm headed there tomorrow and I can't leave Target without checking out the dollar section. Thanks for thinking of me!

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  11. I swear I am not stalking you... I tried to save the environmental print picture to include it in my post and it will not upload.

    www.littlemisskindergarten.blogspot.com

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  12. I love your different word walls. I can tell that your classroom is literacy rich. Thank you for sharing


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  13. I love the environmental print word wall! Such a great idea :) I'm a new follower!

    Chelsey♥

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