Clothes Pins Spelling

I got this idea from my cooperating teacher during student teaching.  I wrote letters on the ends of clothes pins and tied a string to the end of a desk.  One side has capital letters, the other has lower case. 

Scrabble... sort of

Here is another game we play using the Nab It tiles.  We play our version of Scrabble.  The kids have all of their tiles and take turns adding to the word.  The student that uses all of their tiles first, or by the time we have to switch centers, wins.  I am impressed with the vocabulary words they come up with. It did take me, the two parent helpers in the room, and the dictionary to figure out how to spell the word 'villain'.  He got an extra point for stumping 3 adults with the spelling of his word :)

Read It! Build It! Write It!

These tiles are from the game Nab-It by Hasbro.  The game was on clearance at Wal-Mart so I picked it up.  We have played a few different games using the tiles.  We have done a version of scrabble mixed where we can build up and take turns.  We also play the read it, build it, write it game which is shown below.  I downloaded game mats for free from homeschoolcreations.com.  I give the kids a word with the phonics pattern we are working on.  They have to build the word with the tiles, write it and then to earn their point they have to say the word phonetically for me.  

This week we were practicing r controlled words.

They try to earn the most points in their group. 

Word Work Legos

I found some Lego's at the thrift store a while back and have just been holding onto them not sure how to use them.  I finally got inspired and wrote letters each Lego to create a new work work or spelling center.  I hope the kids like the center!

Here is the lego spelling center at work!