Moving During Spelling and Black History Month Word Work/Vocab

It's Friday and so I actually have some time to write a blog post.

The weather is warming up enough for the kids

to go outside for recess!  

When we were stuck inside, I was always

trying to come up with ways to get them moving.

This activity is another one of my

"5 minutes before the lesson starts" ideas.

I typed up little cards with some spelling words 

and also spelled each of them incorrectly.

I cut them apart and gave one to each student.

They wrote their word on our small dry erase boards.

 Then came the moving part.

First they had to find the person

that had their matching word.

They had fun because one person always had

the word misspelled.

 Once everyone had a partner,

they moved again by sorting themselves into two groups:

spelled correctly or misspelled.

Each time I chose two different parts of the room

for them to make the large groups.

We then switched words and played again.

This went on for about five rounds.

Afterwards, one student came up and said she thought

the game was so fun and hoped we would play it again.

The simple things that make the kids happy!

Going along with the theme of spelling

is my new word work pack.

It's my first one and the theme is 

Black History Month.

 

 

 

 I love teaching my students new words,

but finding fun ways to learn them.

Also, next year we are getting rid of spelling tests,

so I need something to incorporate spelling lessons.

I think this is going to work out great.

I'd love to give away a copy of my word work pack.

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Do you have off on Monday?

Lucky me - I have the day off!