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Students are grouped into teams ('bloats') and take turns completing one of six different agility drills/obstacle courses (weaving through cones, sprint/jog intervals, zigzag runs, etc.) to earn 'grass' tokens; the team with the most tokens when all grass is collected wins. A companion activity has students learn…
The class recites a rhyme; a called-on student points to a numbered 'house' card in the pocket chart; the class reads the number aloud; the teacher reveals whether a hidden mouse is behind that card; play continues until all mice are found. Enrichment variations include naming house colors, tracing numbers in the air, and counting…
Students roll dice/spinner five times against a game-sheet grid to determine which shapes/elements to add to a landscape drawing, color and detail the finished piece, write descriptive words and a short story about the landscape, compare their work to Grant Wood's painting Young Corn (1931) using a Venn diagram, and complete…
Students draw a base gummy worm, then roll a die five times to determine color combo/flavor, eyes, nose, mouth, and wig/hair for their drawing, add a background or scene, and optionally follow a "Change It Up" list where the teacher dictates additional elements (e.g., more gummy worms, party hat, confetti, silly feet, fruits, bow,…
In pairs, each partner deals from a shared deck of 18 volume cards, flips one card, calculates its volume showing work in a provided workspace, and compares results; the higher volume wins the round (best of 9), with partners allowed to challenge each other's calculations.
Set out numbered (or lettered) community-helper cards in a pocket chart; students identify/match numbers 0-10 or 0-20 (or upper/lowercase letters) during circle time or small-group play.
Roll a die to move around the board; landing on a 'nova' space means picking a question card and answering it (correct answers stay in place, incorrect answers move back 2 spaces); first player to reach Saturn wins.
Roll dice to generate a letter/sound combination and complete the resulting word on one of three differentiated boards: tracing the whole word, filling in some missing sounds, or writing the whole word independently.
Pick a target sight word, find/check it within a grid of repeated words, and color the matching occurrences, working through multiple word sets (#01-07, #08-14, #15-21, etc.) across the file.
In teams of 3 (2 passengers seated on a mat-covered scooter set, 1 'motor' pushing), push other teams' boats into a marked 'no boating zone' while avoiding being pushed there themselves, following stated safety rules; a pushed-out team must exit and complete an assigned exercise to re-enter.
Students are assigned to teams as either 'hedgehogs' (catchers) or a 'porcupine' (thrower); porcupines javelin-throw pool-noodle segments ('quills') to their teammate hedgehogs, who try to catch them to be rescued; the first team to rescue all hedgehogs wins. Team members also each learn one animal fact from a…
If there is one thing we can count on young learners to absolutely love, it would be animals! From a very young age, many young children strike an interest in animals of all kinds. We know that incorporating interests in our lessons can increase student engagement. There are many ways to incorporate animals into learning! This is an…
Reinforce reading of simple three- and four-letter CVC/CVCC words through a hands-on 'feed the dog' word-recognition game.
Roll a die to select a column of sight words, pick a word from that column, then find and color one matching instance of that word in a grid.
Physical-education hide-and-seek game combining gross motor movement with yoga pose practice for young children.
Use a paper cootie catcher to select yoga poses during a movement game.
Roll a die to determine which column of sight words to pick from, read the chosen word aloud, then color one box containing that word; repeat to play, working through 5 words per page.
Roll dice/cubes showing AGE-family words or blend letters, then color, trace, cover, graph, or write the word that was rolled onto recording sheets.
Free download Match domino halves whose values are equivalent, following a start-to-finish chain.
A build-your-own foldable dice game for practicing 36 named yoga poses.
A full print-and-teach novel unit for 'Tuck Everlasting' (Natalie Babbitt), combining pre-reading discussion, chapter comprehension questions, figurative language instruction, projects, quizzes, a review game, and tests, aligned to Common Core.
Look at 5 target sight words per page, then scan a grid of shapes each labeled with a word in capital letters, find the shapes matching each target word, and color them in.
Free download Match domino halves whose values are equivalent, following a start-to-finish chain.
Free download Match domino tiles so each multiplication problem (e.g., 2x1) connects to its correct product on an adjoining tile, forming a chain from START to FINISH.