Monday, April 20, 2009

Spelling Postman


Again, trying to collate my program for term 2, but keep getting distracted by the finer things, like lesson fillers, lesson break activities and games.
My latest distraction a spelling game I thought up called 'Spelling Postman.'
This is basically how it works.

The teacher tells the children that the postman is coming.
Have the children turn their chairs around to face their desks, and place heads on desks with their hands placed behind their backs.

Teacher chooses a word from the weeks spelling list and retrieves the letters from some pre-made letter cards, and quietly 'posts' the letters by placing them into the hands of random children. When all the letters are distributed, have the children who have had a letter delivered come to the front of the classroom and figure out between themselves what word it is and stand in a line in front of the class so that the correct word is spelt.
Swap so that a child becomes a 'post person'.

I got this idea from K-3 teacher Resources
Just another example of how we can adapt ideas!

1 comment:

Georgina said...

I'm going to try your game tomorrow with my class, Thank you!
Have a great Day!!