My First Monday Made It!

Compared to other Made It Monday posts I've read, this is pretty unearthshattering :)  My children had fun with me, and nobody was harmed in our first Monday Made It!

At the Dollar Store, I picked up some flat marbles, and wrote letters on them.   I also found these cute baskets (4 for $1) to store them in.  I only put a few consonants in the basket, but included all the vowels.    My "almost" first grade son saw what I was making and had a BLAST making words.  All of the sudden I hear, "I need another O!"  If you look at the picture, you'll see the word he made!  I suppose I should be happy he likes to spell :)

Then my daughter helped me make little pointers with big eyes.  The Dollar Store had a pack of 125 eyes for $1!  I thought that was a steal.  My plan is for the pointers to be used during guided reading while the letter marbles would be placed in a Word Work Station or an ABC Station.