Sight Word Necklaces

I'm popping in today with something cute and quick that seems to help my kids out with sight words.

I give you... sight word necklaces.

We make them on Monday and wear them throughout the week.  I wrote the words on each pumpkin, but I let my kids color and cut them out.  I actually had each of them make two... a little insurance for those necklaces that will get lost or ruined during the week.  We taped the yarn on the back, and that seems to be holding up pretty well.

Of course, because tape is involved, these necklaces are very exciting to my first graders.  They love to compare words, and I love that they are looking at their sight words so regularly.  They also LOVE to talk about their sight word necklaces to people who are not in our class, like the lunch ladies and the second graders across the hall.

(By the way, each kid gets a different necklace each morning.  I just pass them out randomly.)

Now, these pumpkin necklaces are cute, but I have to admit that I've just written the words on plain old notecards in the past.  Yes, PLAIN notecards.  Not even the cute colored ones.  We've got to do what we've got to do.

If you want a copy of my pumpkin blackline, you can get it here on Google docs.