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Popcorn Middle Sound Match Up

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Two paper popcorn bags with short o and short i popcorn cards on top

Make learning fun with these themed Middle Sound Match-Ups. Your elementary age students will love this fun popcorn themed literacy center! Perfect for literacy stations or small review groups any time of the year. Use in your Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms. Black and white options available to save your color ink.

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Two paper popcorn bags with short o and short i popcorn cards on top

Included In Popcorn Middle Sound Match-Up:

To get you started, this great kit includes all of the items below.  This is ideal for helping you get your classroom excited about summer and warm weather and is an ideal activity to keep them busy and having fun during centers, small groups, or those free time hours.

There are 31 pages of centers, covering the vowels: A, E, I, O, U with short and long variations. Each popcorn bucket has six popcorn kernels, each one showing a different picture that starts with the corresponding letter.

This resource also comes in black and white to save on ink.

Save money when you print this popcorn middle sound match up in black & white! Your students are going to LOVE it.

Materials Needed for Popcorn Middle Sound Match-Up:

  • paper or card stock
  • laminating pouches
  • laminator
  • paper cutter
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Getting Popcorn Middle Sound Match-Up Ready:

Purchase and print the popcorn middle sound match-ups (Color or Black & White), laminate and cut using a paper trimmer.  Gather all of the pieces and place in a plastic container. I love using plastic pencil cases to store centers like these. It keeps everything in one place and does not take up a ton of space.

This obviously doesn’t take a ton of time to put together and makes a wonderful activity to help your kids have fun and learn at the same time.

Add in hands-on learning fun when you implement this popcorn middle sound match up in your PreK, Kindergarten, or First Grade classroom!

Doing Popcorn Middle Sound Match-Up

Students will start the activity by choosing a popcorn bucket with a letter on it . My daughter chose the popcorn bucket with the “short i”. Encourage your students to sound out the word so they can distinguish between short and long vowel sounds.

Your students are going to LOVE using this popcorn middle sound match up in your early literacy center! The perfect addition at anytime of the year to your PreK, Kindergarten, or First Grade classroom.

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Students will then sort through all of the popcorn kernels with pictures looking for the ones that start with the “short i”.

Hands-on literacy fun awaits when you implement this popcorn middle sound match up in your classroom! Perfect for your PreK, Kindergarten, or First Grade students!

Each popcorn bucket has six popcorn kernels with a visual. Once the popcorn bucket has has six popcorn kernels representing the corresponding letter, they can move on to a new letter and start again.

Your students are going to LOVE using this popcorn middle sound match up in your early literacy center! The perfect addition to your PreK, Kindergarten, or First Grade classroom at anytime of the year.

Another way this could be completed, is to have all of the popcorn buckets laid out on a table or even the floor. Students will then sort through all of the popcorn kernels and place each one at the correct popcorn bucket.

If you have younger (or struggling) students that would be overwhelmed by the amount of puzzle pieces in this activity, scale it back. Provide them with only a few of the letters. Once they master those, you can slowly add in more.

Your students are going to LOVE this popcorn middle sound match up at anytime of the year! The perfect addition to your PreK, Kindergarten, or First Grade classroom.

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Have fun with your students in the classroom and at home with these fun Popcorn Middle Sound Match-Up. Don’t forget to check out all of the other great ideas we have for your classroom!

Filed Under: Literacy, Vowels Tagged With: First Grade, Kindergarten, Match-up, Popcorn

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