Learning Apple Sight Word Game for Kindergarten

Sight Words in Kindergarten

Sight words are the words most commonly used in written text. Often times, these words can not be sounded out, rather need to be memorized.  Teaching your child the top sight words will help them to become a stronger reader with fluency.  They should be able to read these words quickly, without needing to stop and sound them out. Affiliate links to products.

Apple Sight Words Game, A Playful Learning Activity

My kindergartner is going to school during the day, but I want to continue to make learning FUN at home.  This allows me to enrich and extend the learning at school.  Since our tot-school theme of the week is apples, we kept the same theme =)

Materials Needed for the Apple Sight Words Game

Cork Board
Construction Paper
Permanent Marker
Stapler and Staples
Velcro

Directions to make the Apple Sight Words Game

1. Cover the cork board with a construction paper color of your choice. I used blue.
2. Cut out the tree.  Staple this to the board.
3. Staple the soft side of the Velcro to the bottom of the tree.
4. Cut out small apples and write the sight words that you are working on.
5. Staple pieces of the rough Velcro side to the backs of the apples.

Ideas for using the Sight Word Apple Game

• Children can “pick” the sight word apples off the tree.
• They can harvest the sight words that begin with a given sound. IE Pick all the apples that begin with the {s} sound.
• Children also liked hiding the apples around the house and stick them on the tree as they found them.
• They can pick and apple, then say a sentence using that sight word.

We also had a “big kid” book club where a group of 4-5 year olds got together and read apple stories.  I just bought the collection of apple books and Lalaloopsy: Let’s Pick Apples! was a favorite of my daughters.  I challenged her to find some of our sight words in the book while we were reading it!

We shared these books at book club and brought a sight word memory game for the kids to make and a coloring page for the younger siblings.  I was surprised that the kids just wanted to make the game, but not play it.  They were more interested in hiding the construction paper apples that were labeled with numbers 1-10, finding them, and putting the apples in order!  My goal was to get them working and learning together, so even if they did it with another activity – SUCCESS!

For More Grade School Activities here at The Educators’ Spin On It, we recommend reading about our A themed adventures!