Theme 5: Let's Count

This page is to be used with the Teacher's Edition of your Houghton Mifflin Reading Series.

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Four Square Sounds (page xiv)
Use KidPix to draw a pictures of the words. KidPix Template

Building Background (page T18)
Use Kidspiration/Inspiration to create a graphic organizer to help the students list their favorite "feast" foods. Kidspiration /Inspiration

Connecting Sounds to Letters (page T20)
Use KidPix to find stamps that begin with the sound /p/, as in pig.
KidPix Template

Using Number Words (page T25)
Stamp the correct number of food or other items. KidPix Template

Using Number Words (page T25)
Draw the correct number of food or other items. KidPix Template

Class Counting Book (T28)
Use KidPix to create your own counting book after reading the story Feast For 10. KidPix Template

Word Families: -at, -an (T44)
Use Kidspiration/Inspiration to sort the -an or -at words. Kidspiration/Inspiration

Rhyming Words (T69)
Use KidPix to draw pictures or use stamps of rhyming words to complete each sentence. KidPix Template , KidPix Template with sample

Let's Count Websites
More Counting - An interactive, colorful set of counting activities in english and spanish created by Cynthia Lanius.