Language Lights - Alberta Education. (2006). Daily physical activity: A handbook for grades 1-9 schools. Edmonton, AB: Learning and Teaching Resources Branch.
Materials
- No materials needed
- Assign students consonants or vowels, adjective or verbs, and so on and then assign different movements to each type of word (i.e. Verb - jump, Adjective - leap)
- Call out a colour of a streetlight and have students move as the colour dictates. Red light means stop, yellow light means jog on the spot, green light means students have to start performing the specified movement (i.e. Consonants - jumping Jacks, Vowels- bend over and touch their toes.)
- If you call out "pit stop," students stop and complete a stretch, holding it for 8 seconds.
- Have the students create a list of words that fit in each category (i.e. verbs and adjectives.) Use those words to assign to students.
- Have students switch word cards with other students.
- GLO 4.2 - Attend to Conventions
- Attend to grammar and usage