Tagged with 'alphabet spots'

Set-up:

Spelling Superstars

Spell a sight word by touching the alphabet poly spots while doing a jog or skill! 

Objective:
To spell a sight word by touching the alphabet poly spots while doing a jog or skill.

Equipment:

• 1 set of Alphabet Poly Spots (70061-PS)
• Many copies of grade specific sight or high frequency words
• 6-12 The Zone™ Exer-dice (16982-PS)
• Other equipment (based on your skill)

Set-up:
Scatter the alphabet poly spots all over the gym. Put the dice on an end wall. Put the word cards on a table or in a hoop on the floor.

How to Play:

• Have each student select one word card.
• They will travel around the gym looking for the correct letters that go with their spots.
• For example, if your word is cat, you will jog and touch the letter C, then the A, and then finally the T with your foot. You don’t need to stop for long at the letters.
• Once you complete a word, you earn a roll of the dice. Roll the dice, do the exercise 10 times.
• Choose a new card and repeat the process until your time is up or you run out of cards. Depending on the number of word cards you have, you could have your students keep the words in their hand an continue collecting them, or you can have them return them to the pile and select a new card.

Variations:
Do the activity with a piece of equipment. If you are in your soccer unit, have the students dribble a ball from spot to spot to spell the word.
Do with math equations (1+3=4) by using numbered poly spots on the floor.

• Students should take turns with each job when they are ready to try to go across the gym again.
• Students should not touch other team’s cubes at any time.
• Students will take the first sight word card they touch. Remind them not to spend much time in the sight word card area. Remind 2nd – 3rd grade students to not repeat sight words.
• Each student gets to choose the exercise to complete for their sight word card AND the WHOLE team must complete the exercise.

Set up:

Cardio Spelling

Get your heart pumping while practicing spelling! For grades 2 and up.

Grade Level:

2nd grade and up

Equipment:

• Poly Spots (Enough to put four spots with four students) (21026-PS)
• Spelling Words on Cards/sheets
• The Zone™ Dry Erase Boards (21202-PS)
• Dry Erase Markers
• Dry Eraser
• 6 Sports Health™ Nexus Hurdles (16720-PS)
• 6 The Zone™ Exer-Dice (16982-PS)
• 6 balls to plank over
• A to Z Poly Spots (70061-PS)

How to Play:

• Split students into groups of four
• At the start of each lane (group), the first student will start on their poly spot
• The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th students will be spaced out along the gym floor on their poly spot. Each spot has a different exercise/activity.
• To start, the students on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th poly spots start exercising. The teacher will give student 1 the spelling word; they look at the word and put it on the ground.
• Person 1 jogs to Person 2 and tells them the first letter of the spelling word, person 2 jogs to person 3 and tells them the letter and person 3 jogs to person 4 and tells them the letter. Person 4 then writes the letter down on the dry erase board (kind of like old school spelling).
• Once each person is told the letter, they do that exercise until they are visited again with the next letter
• After person four writes down the letter, they head back to the beginning to get the next letter and the process begins again. This occurs until the entire word is written.

 
Adaptation:
Do the entire word instead of each letter, instead of running to the next spot, do a locomotor movement, give several exercises at each spot.

Set up:

Recon Battleship

Sink the other teams battleships before they sink yours by throwing balls over the mats! 

Objective:
To sink the other teams battleships before they sink yours by throwing balls over the mats. Teams can use recon missions to share information on target locations.

Equipment:

• 24 The Zone™ Weighted Knock Down Targets (4 sets of 17227-PS)
• 8 Fitness Steps (52865-PS)
• Alphabet Poly Spots (A-F) (70061-PS)
• Numbered Poly Spots (1-6) (21200-PS)
• 12-16 Foam Balls 6.3” (10591-PS or 10507-PS)
• 24 Skinny No-Kink Hoops (14029-PS)
• 6-8 Floor Mats (29285-PS)

Description of Game:

Students will be divided into two teams. Each team will place their weighted targets on 4 different fitness steps in a location they choose on their half of the gym. These will be the ships for the game. There will be two ships with two targets and two ships with four targets for each team. Each ship will also have a safe barrier of hula hoops around them. No player may step inside these when guarding their ships. Along one side of the gym will be the letters A-F and along the bottom near the center will be the numbers 1-6. These will be to help students share locations of their opponents ships when they do a recon mission. Students will throw balls blindly attempting to knock over targets and sinking the other teams ships. If a player catches a ball from the other team before it hits the ground they get to run a recon mission. A recon mission allows the student to run a lap around the perimeter of the gym. During this lap they will gather information on the location of the other teams ships. They will then share that information with their teammates. Approximately 8 feet from the center of the gym on both sides is a red line. Students may not cross the line while standing. If they need to get a ball they will need to army crawl to get the ball and then crawl back. This is so they cannot see over the mats.

Set Up:

Set 5-6 folding mats standing up across the center of the gym dividing the gym into two halves. 4 fitness steps with 2 or 4 targets on them, A-F and 1-6 spots on floor.

Set up:

I Like to Move It Move It Math

Increase math composing/decomposing skills while being physically active with a partner or small group!

Materials/equipment:
• White Boards – Set of 6 (21202-PS)
• Skinny Hoops (14028-PS)
• Colored Cone Set of 6 (21049-PS)
• Alphabet Spots (70061-PS)
• Foam Dice 2 sets of 6 (15034-PS)
• The Zone™ Cone Folders Set of 6 (21192-PS)
• Big Digit Timer (48025-PS)

Objective:
To increase math composing/decomposing skills with partners.

Description of Game:
One student at a time from each group will take turns being the leader and go to the center and select a number card and bring it back to their group. As a group they must use their whiteboards and write down as many different combinations of numbers they can use to get to the number they selected on their card.

When the leader brings the card back he or she will share the number with the group. The group will then run one lap together around the outside of the playing area. While running their lap they should be starting to think of number combinations to write down. Students can share with one another out loud or wait until they all return to their home spot. When they return they should flip their timer over and begin to share their combinations while the leader writes them down on the whiteboard.

Example: Addition: They have the number 12. Students can write down 6 + 6, 3 + 9, 4 + 8, and so on. Each group will have 30 seconds to complete as many combinations as they can. When they are done or can no longer think of any more number combinations, the group will look at their card and and see what color sticker is on it. That color will determine which exercise station they will go to for their group exercise. If the sticker is red then the student that is the leader will go to the red cone.

Each cone will have an exercise written in the cone folder. The leader will roll the two foam dice, which will determine how many of the exercise they will do. That student will come back to the group and lead the group in their exercise. When finished a new leader will go to the middle and repeat the process. 

Set-up:
Divide students into groups of 2, 3 or 4 depending on class sizes and assign them a letter and those students will go that spot. In the center of the playing area will be cards scattered face down. Around the perimeter of the gym will be 6 cones each with a cone folder. Next to the cone will be a hula hoop and two foam dice.

Variations:
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division