Printable Spelling Dictionary for Kids

When my daughter was in first grade, her class made their own dictionaries as they learned sight words. I guess a spelling dictionary is a more accurate term, because they didn’t include definitions, just the words so they could easily access the correct spelling of those words they were learning.

The Measured Mom has printable versions of a spelling dictionary you can download to use with kids of different ages. You can choose from pages without any words, with words and wide lines or words and narrow lines, with or without pictures at the top.

Start with a book with no words for littles to collect their own words (and make up spellings for different words). Older kids can use the listed words as a starting point and practice writing words on the lines or collect additional words.

Have you used spelling dictionaries with kids? I’d love to hear about it.

[Photo: the Measured Mom.]

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Christmas Language Arts Activities

The other day I shared some crafts involving fall leaves, but there are a lot of fun leaf-related activities that don’t use real leaves, so I wanted to share some of those, too.

Like these watercolor leaves from The Artful Parent. These are so pretty and would be great to make a garland or decorate the table for Thanksgiving. You could experiment with different kinds of paper, combine watercolors and crayons, use an eyedropper to apply liquid watercolors — there are lots of different ways to play with this one!

Because I’m a knitter of course I love any project that involves yarn, so this fall leaf lacing craft from Our Kid Things is right up my alley. The multicolored yarn they used is a lot of fun, or stick with fall colors. Either way it’s a great fine motor skill activity!

Using leaf shapes to make other crafts is a great way to incorporate leaves into the classroom without having to use actual leaves. For little kids this sensory painting activity from Kids Craft Room would be a lot of fun (I think this would be fun for some older kids and adults, too, to be honest) and makes a fun and easy decoration.

Of course leaf activities don’t just have to be crafts. Check out this great leaf matching game from Made to be a Momma. These leaves are so cute and after you’ve prepped the game you can play it over and over with no prep. Use fewer sets for younger kids and the full set for older ones.

You can also use leaf shapes in all sorts of learning activities, like in this fall leaf number tower activity from Fun Learning for Kids. There are leaves with single numbers on them that kids can use to stack cubes on in one-to-one correspondence, as well as ones that show dots like dice so kids can add up the numbers to build their stacks.

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