Hello, Friends!  It's been a long, long while!  For some funny reason, I was unable to log-on to homeschoolblogger.com for a long time.  Why that was remains a mystery to me to this day, even after I had consulted with & reported the problem to the very helpful homeschoolblogger.com folks.  What solved it?  My hubby got me a new laptop, ha ha!  The old PC I first used for this blog was decommissioned by my husband because we were encountering so many other problems with it, & he set-up a new one for our kids, & voila!  We could now access the homeschoolblogger.com site!  Weird though, I have no idea what really caused the problem in the first place...hmmm...but anyway, I'm glad to be back online on my blog now.  I'll try my best to keep it updated from now on.

I've just finished homeschool with Timmy, our grade 1 boy, & we've just started with consonant blends in language arts.  BTW, fyi, we use Alpha Omega Publications LIFEPacs, and we're quite happy with them because biblical teachings & truths are integrated into our math, language arts & science subjects.  It also simplifies my life while providing structure which I really need to keep me going & on track.  I just try to enrich my children's learning by complementing our lessons with different methods & activities that are designed for their learning styles.

Anyway, getting back to consonant blends, I embarked on a short "journey" on the web to find enrichment activities for Timmy.  Here's what I found:

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_106/blends.htm  (free online interactive)
http://www.atschool.co.uk/activity/activity4.asp?Act5Back=%2FSubject%2FSubject%2Easp%3FOpenLinks%3D8702%23block8702 (free online interactive or printable, your choice)
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/letters/blends.html (free online interactive with sound)
http://rbeaudoin333.homestead.com/initialblends_1.html (your choice of free online interactive or printable activities for initial/beginning blends)
http://rbeaudoin333.homestead.com/endingblends_1.html (your choice of free online interactive or printable activities for final/ending blends)
http://www.mrsmcgowan.com/reading/ref.htm#Consonant (reference)
http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/begin1A.html (printable activity)
http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/begin1B.html (printable activity)
http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/begin1C.html (printable activity)

I hope this helps your own children to master their consonant blends.  Catch you again soon!