Alphabet Fun- Adapted from Ever Active Schools. (2014). Daily Physical Activity Greatest Hits.
Materials
- Letters of the alphabet posted in the activity area.
- Post the letters of the alphabet around the playing area.
- Instruct students to spell different words by touching the appropriate letters, and travelling in a specified locomotor pattern to touch each letter
- Vary the locomotor pattern (walking, running, crab-walking, hopping, galloping)
- Choose words from various units of study (i.e. science vocabulary)
- Have students complete activity in groups as a relay. The first student would go and touch the first letter, return to tag their partner and then the next student would touch the next letter. Make sure students do not all have the same word!
- GLO 2.1 - Use Strategies and Cues
- Use phonics and structural analysis
- Use references
- GLO 4.1 - Enhance and Improve
- Expand knowledge of language
- GLO 4.2 - Attend to conventions
- Attend to spelling