Memory Match - Adapted from Alberta Education. (2006). Daily physical activity: A handbook for grades 1-9 schools. Edmonton, AB: Learning and Teaching Resources Branch.
Materials
- Cards or paper plates
- Write rhyming words, homonyms or other matching words on the bottom of paper plates or cards and divide the students into groups of two.
- Scatter half of the plates/ cards upside down (so the word is hidden) on one half of the classroom and the other half of plates/ cards on the other half of the classroom.
- Have each group start at a different spot, and using a specific locomotor pattern (i.e. hopping on one foot, skipping, twirling), move from one side to the other to pick up a paper plate/ card. They they have to repeat the same locomotor pattern back to their starting side and find the matching word. If they turn over a card that matches, they bring it back. If it doesn't, they place it back on the floor upside down for the other teams to find. Partners must stay together and they can only turn over one card at a time.
- GLO 2.1 - Use Strategies and Cues
- Uses phonics and structural analysis
- GLO 4.1 - Enhance and Improve
- Expands knowledge of language
- GLO 5.2 - Works within a Group
- Cooperates with others