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Bean Bag Decides – Blending

Kindergarten, Grade 1

Created by:

Math & Movement

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Concept(s):

Making words, CVC words

Activity Instructions

Place a vowel card on the mat. Say the sound that vowel makes together. Have a student throw a bean bag on the mat. Be sure the bean bag lands on one petal. Ask what letter and sound it landed on? Ask another student (or the same one) to choose a second letter that makes a word with the first two. Spell the word they make together. E. g. “h-e-n- spells hen!”


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