Everyday I'm puzzlin'...

Hehe! Do your kiddos love puzzles as much as mine do? A new puzzle is always an exciting thing at free choice centers... why not bring that excitement into things they have to do?

I've been wanting to make a sight word puzzle like Melissa's at Chasing Cheerios. I always make a Target run after payday... don't you? I grabbed a few puzzles for this project.

Now Spongebob and Patrick will help us practice our first 30 sight words during our Daily 5 stations!

I took the same idea to make a number recognition puzzle, too. I had envisioned numbering every piece to 100, but I chickened out. I wasn't sure if having the pieces in a 12 x 9 array, instead of a 10 x 10, would be confusing. Not to mention time consuming.

So I numbered 30 pieces instead, but then that presented another problem. How would they know how to take it apart during cleanup without ripping up the glued pieces? To differentiate between pieces that are glued and pieces that are numbered I used yellow puff paint. A large dot on the numbered pieces may remind them to take those pieces off for cleanup and leave the others alone. We'll see how it goes.

Thankful for Sundays and quick projects! :)