My daughter is in 1st grade and spelling practice with a pencil and paper is torture to her. These look more fun! I LOVE this! So helpful!!! Sometimes I just need a little nudge with numbered list for suggestions! Thank you, thank you! What a lovely list. We mostly use shaving cream or tile letters. I should mix it up a bit. Blessings, Dawn.
Great ideas here! Thanks Jimmie! I needed some ideas for Butterfly to use with the spellings they send home from school. Great suggestions, Jimmie! Anytime we can add an large motor or kinesthetic activity to school it is a good thing! Thanks for the creative suggestions, Jimmie! This site offers free, fun games, resources, and printables.
They especially love to play Hangmouse on our interactive white board. Great ideas! My favorite is using magnetic letters, mix them up, and have a child put the word back together making the sound of the letter or group of letters while making the word. My last post on my blog has two videos with my son demonstrating this very thing. Thanks for sharing this list of ideas. I am reminded to get out my scrabble tile stamps with my daughter. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. We would love to talk to you! Search Blog. Work on Spelling and Fine Motor Skills Fidgety kids often benefit from keeping their hands busy as they complete their schoolwork. Take Your Spelling for a Drive Draw rectangles on the driveway or sidewalk with chalk.
Make It Fun! Write on the Sidewalk with a twist! Use Scratch-Off Paper Make spelling review colorful with rainbow scratch-off paper! Create a Sensory Spelling Tray Pour some salt or sand in a shallow pan to create a fun sensory spelling tray! Have your child repeat the word and then run across the room to the white board. Have him spell the word, then run back for the next word.
Recommended by Jenny H. Spell words in a plate or pan full of rice. Shared by studioregency on Instagram Say a word. Have your child repeat the word and spell it on the white board. If he spells it correctly, he gets to draw an illustration for the word. Recommended by niconicolita on Instagram Play hopscotch with your spelling words.
Add letters to each square and have your child hop to each letter as she spells the word out loud. Recommended by Suzanne W. Let him write it on a window using a Crayola washable marker or Expo dry erase marker. Recommended by Tracy via blog comment Host a spelling bee. Recommended by K. Smith via blog comment Play spelling tic-tac-toe.
If your child spells their word correctly they get to claim a space. If they misspell it, the other person can steal the space by correctly spelling the word. Recommended by Jeanine via blog comment. To recreate the experience of typing on a real typewriter, use the Hanx Writer iPad app. Recommended by Michelle via blog comment Use a dry erase marker on the bathroom mirror. Review spelling words after brushing teeth in the morning and leave them on the mirror all day.
Recommended by Robin R. Roll the dice and drive a little car or another type of marker down the appropriate number of cards. Mom turns over the card and reads the word and child spells the word. If spelled correctly, the card is placed right-side up. Keep going until all the cards have been spelled correctly. Recommended by Linda via blog comment For a physical activity I would create a maze of letters on my tile floor. The kids had to spell the words by stepping on the letters to get through the maze.
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By submitting you will receive emails from Hey Teach! Classroom innovation lesson ideas , classroom games. Roll the Dice Pair your little learners for this fun and teachable spelling activity. Concentration Do you remember the TV game show Concentration? Ball Toss Spelling This game can be played inside the classroom or outdoors.
Sensory Spelling Learning to spell requires plenty of repetition. Spelling Art Bring out the construction paper, crayons, and markers to make colorful art projects using spelling words. Construct a set of stairs with your spelling words.
Continue around the spiral until the student finishes with all the words on the spelling list. You can also draw intersecting lines across a sheet of paper and invite students to write a spelling word in each section with a different color marker in each box. Further reading: Classroom Superlatives Are a Fun Way to End the School Year Throughout my teaching career, I found that presenting fun classroom spelling games was the ticket to getting better grades from my students.
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