Fishing for sight words

I actually made this game for their birthday party but we didn't really get to play it.  Lila asked to play it today.  Very simple and fun game.  Lila played for nearly 45 minutes today.  I made the poles by getting a dowel rod, heavy magnets and string.  I then used fish cut outs, punched a hole by the mouth and inserted a paper clip for the magnet to catch.  The teacher in me saw it as an opportunity to work on sight words so I wrote kindergarten dolch sight words from herehttp://www.kidzone.ws/dolch/kindergarten.htm http://www.kidzone.ws/dolch/kindergarten.htm.  Lila loves to work on reading words.  We play this game different ways.  Sometimes just for the fun of catching the fish.  Today I said a word and she would "catch" it.  She also would just catch any word and read it to me.  Notice that our cat, Oreo, make no effort to get out of the way and actually makes catching the fish harder for the girls.