Sight Word Spelling

Melanie made up her own game to do our "Sight Word" spelling. She took our magnetic letters, arranged them on the floor and started trying to spell different words with them. She wanted to do this instead of me calling out words to her for her to write down & practice her spelling. Then I decided "Hey what a cool concept!", and took it a step further and brought in a die. We roll the die & what ever number you land on that is how big of a word you have to think of & spell. It's actually working out quite nicely. You have to get creative sometimes & apply a little math skills at the same time. It's not always so easy for a five year old to think of a 6 letter word, sound it out & spell it. It also baffles her a little when she draws a 1. What words only have 1 letter in them? Not very many! HA! This game has turned out to be very fun.