Free Ice Cream Vowel Team Matching Printable
You can work on vowel team words this summer with this fun hands-on ice cream activity for vowel team word.
You can use the free ice cream vowel team matching printable to match vowel team letters to pictures of vowel team words. A great learning center activity to use with kids!
This fun vowel team printable is a simple way to review for the summer or fun back to school review of vowel team words!
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This is a great addition to the vowel team printables on the site.
What is a Vowel Team Word?
Vowel teams are two vowels that work to make one sound. This is also called a vowel digraph.
These are words like rain, mail, fruit, and seed.
The common vowel teams are: ai, ay, ea, ee, ie, oa, oe, ue, and ui.
Now, these are some of the most common vowel teams that work together.
Vowel Team Cones
You have 9 ice cream cones with the vowel team letters on them. You have ai, ay, ea, ee, ie, oa, oe, ue, and ui on each cone.
Vowel Team Scoops with Pictures
The ice cream cone scoops have one vowel team picture on each scoop. The scoops have a black and white picture that matches the vowel team letters.
You can see the following vowel team letters and words for the picture matches.
Vowel Team AI: mail and rain
Vowel Team AY: tray and ray
Vowel Team EA: leaf and read
Vowel Team EE: peek and sleep
Vowel Team IE: die and tie
Vowel Team OA: boat and loaf
Vowel Team OE: doe and toe
Vowel Team UE: clue and glue
Vowel Team UI: fruit and juice
Ice Cream Cone Vowel Team Recording Sheet
the vowel team recording sheet shows all nine of the vowel digraphs on the page and the place for writing both of the words.
Things to use with the Ice Cream Vowel Team Matching Printable
- printer
- white cardstock
- 1 inch ring
- laminator
- laminating pouches
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Ways to Use the Ice Cream Vowel Team Matching Printable
You are going to see a few ways to use these vowel team printables.
Setting up the Vowel Team Matching Activity
You can see a simple setup for a matching activity. You can have all the vowel team scoops or just one set of vowel team scoops.
Matching one picture to the Vowel Team Cone
You can start off simple if this is the first time using the cards. You can just match one vowel team picture to one vowel team set of letters. You want to give them just the amount of pictures they need.
Matching Both Vowel Team Pictures to the Vowel Team Cone
You can match both the pictures. This might be great if you are already working on vowel teams and want to expand on words.
Matching just the Vowel Team Pictures
You can also just match the vowel team pictures. This is a great way to see vowel teams they know. You always have them tell you the vowel team of the pictures as well.
Putting the Vowel Team Pictures on Rings
You can out the vowel team pictures and vowel team letters on rings. Then kids can flip through the pictures and cones to find the matching combination. This also helps keep the cards together and makes a great learning center for kids.
You can also put the pictures and two rings and let them flip through both rings to find both vowel team pictures that match the vowel team letters.
Recording the Vowel Team Words on the Cones
You can also record all the vowel team words. this is a great way to see if kids have got the right matches. You have two spots for each vowel digraph to record the words.
You can see how the whole activity makes a great vowel team learning center.
More Vowel Team Printables
If you are looking for more vowel team printables to go with the vowel team ice cream cones then check out the coloring pages. These have 3 vowel team words on each page plus an option to write their own vowel team word.
Vowel Team Coloring Pages
You have fun coloring pages with two or three pictures on each page to color and then words to trace. There is also a version where you can write the words as well.
What you will find in the Vowel Team Coloring Page Printables
- 9 different vowel Teams
- the following vowel teams: – ai words, -ay words, -ea words, -ee words, -ie words, -oa words, -oe words, -ue words, -ui words.
- Page for tracing the word
- Page for writing in the word
- 18 pages
- Price: $2.50
What you will find in the Free Ice Cream Vowel Team Matching Printable
- Vowel team matching printable or vowel digraph matching for summer
- 9 Ice cream cones with vowel with letters: ai, ay, ea, ee, ie, oa, oe, ue, and ui
- 18 Ice cream scoops with two pictures for each vowel team letters
- 1 recording sheet for all vowel team matches
- 5 pages
More Vowel Team Printables
Vowel Team Clip Cards has the vowels to clip and then you can trace the letters and write in the vowels on the cards.
Vowel Team Wall Cards has the two vowel team letters, a picture example of the letters, and the matching word for the picture.
Vowel Team Matching Cards has 9 fun matching cards with matching picture of a vowel team word with a written word with a vowel team.
Vowel Team Ladders is a great spelling activity where kids can make words with that vowel team.
Check out all the fun Vowel Team Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
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