Do your students like the action rhymes I share with you? They're great for integrating a range of skills and also let students become active with their learning - combining movement, language and literacy. Many of them have math and number concepts embedded too.
Print them at 60% and punch a hole in the corner. Pop them on a giant paper clip and you'll have them at your fingertips for quick mini lessons. You can easily hook them to you teacher instructional trolley or easel - at the small group learning table too.
Today I want to share with you a no-prep game you can play after 10 Happy Flowers!
It's a game for reviewing spelling words - maybe sight words, theme words or decodable words. Whatever you are working on. With a few tweaks you could use it for 3 or 4 digit numbers too.
The Sun, The Wind and The Flowers
You need:
- chart paper, a white board or easel
- pen
- list of words
- sun (I used the tracing page that is free in the Coloring Club to make this one)
Students will:
- spell familiar and unfamiliar words
- identify letters and letter-sounds
To play:
- one student is the sun and can hold it (you could also use a Sunshine Stick)
- the sun (with the teachers help if needed) draws dashes on the board to represent a chosen word (use a word list if needed - in the example below I have chosen 'the')
- flowers are drawn beneath the dashes
- the rest of the class is the wind
- the wind calls:
The wind is going to blow, 1, 2, 3 - t (or any other letter)
- if there is a 't' in the chosen word the sun writes it in every place it appears
- if no 't' appears, a flower is erased (blown down)
- play continues with letters being called until either the word can be guessed, revealed or all the flowers are blown down
- a new sun is chosen to create a new word
I hope your students love this fun word review game - and the action rhyme!
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