Spelling Homework Menus - Digital Download

When I first started teaching this year, a big struggle of mine was keeping up with homework. No, not grading it...creating it!

Yes, every week I was creating a new homework activity and striving to find a way to differentiate and reach both my GT students and my lower students. Turns out, that's downright exhausting and homework menus are much simpler to handle!

I use the same homework menu for my class each week. I've found the one that I feel my students enjoy and benefit from the most and I make bulk copies to be divided up through the weeks.

If you give Spelling homework, I highly recommend these. They're a great seller in my TeachersPayTeachers store & my Spelling Homework Menu Packet offers 3 different options!

Look, I even did the hard part for ya...making them! ;)

{Click here to download Multiple Spelling Homework Menus!}

How do you handle homework for your classroom? Do you like these as an option?

Text Message Spelling Station Activity - Digital Download

I'm constantly on the lookout for a Spelling station activity. Every week I change the activity that my kids are doing at that station and I have this ridiculous (almost impossible) desire to not repeat an activity...once.

Go ahead and ask me how that's working out.

Okay, guilty; I've actually managed not to repeat yet, but it's turned into something really stressful at times.

Just a couple of weeks ago I was racking my brain for an activity for the week. As always, I wanted something that I knew my students would enjoy doing, but it needed to be something that didn't take a lot of preparation on my part.

Fortunately, my creativity was on my side that day and...

Wahhhlaaaahhh! Text Message Spelling!

My students L-O-V-E-D it! This activity requires the students to write down each spelling word once and then determine what the "secret text message code" is by using the keypad on the iPhone. (Bonus points awarded to me (and you!), the teacher, for this being an iPhone which is SO COOL to them!)

{Click here to download the Text Message Spelling Station Activity}