Spelling Relay- Adapted from Alberta Education. (2006). Daily physical activity: A handbook for grades 1-9 schools. Edmonton, AB: Learning and Teaching Resources Branch.
Materials
- Popsicle Sticks
- Divide the students into teams and assign each team an equal number of popsicle sticks, which are placed on a table across the room.
- Call out a vocabulary word for the teams to spell.
- On a signal, the first players in each team run to their piles, grab a stick and bring it back to their teams.
- Upon returning, the runners tag the next students and they run and collect another stick. Meanwhile, the teammates work together to spell out the words with the sticks. Students are not allowed to break the sticks. To shorten the duration of the activity, students could bring back 2 sticks at a time.
- GLO 4.1 - Enhance and Improve
- Expand knowledge of language
- GLO 4.2 - Attend to Conventions
- Attend to spelling
- GLO 5.2 - Works within a group
- Cooperates with others
- Works in groups