Sunday, August 31, 2008

Alphabet clips


My students need hands on materials in order to stay engaged and practice basic skills without boring them into a behavior. These alphabet clips are dollar store magnetic bag clips with scrap booking alphabet labels attached. I also found a Dollar Store pre-laminated poster with alphabet circles on it and cut those out. Students stand at the whiteboard & work as part of our "center time" and arrange the alphabet using the clips on their own, using prearranged clips- match the alphacards or for students who have mastered ABC lineup can use the clips to work on alphabetizing skills using note cards with ABC words/sight words on them.
Cost: $4.oo for clips, $1.00 for alpha poster and $2.00 for scraping booking stickers. Total = $7.00


AlphaClips™ Uppercase as seen on E School Catalog website $30.59

Savings= About 23.00 buckaroos!
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