When it's raining or too hot to play safely outside at recess times we always have a routine for spending our playtimes inside together with a little chaos as possible. I try to give the kids as many diferent types of options as possible to cater for kids' differing needs for a playtime inside - group, partner and individual options; physical, creative and intellectual 0ptions; passive and active options. With this one, I made thesoptions as cards to allow more flexibility. Sometimes it wasn't possible to have all options running. Luckily we had access to a carpeted corridor outside the classroom so the kids could play downball and skip and build with planks. I could move options in and out of circulation as the day's circumstances needed.
Link to Hot n Wet Day Inside Options Nice spelling activities to use at the beginning of the year before the real spelling lessons happen. Easy to pull out kids for assessement while these activities are happening. Same activities could be used for kids' favourite singers, actors, footy players etc. Link to slide: Playing with Our Names
Blockposter is a great site for uploading images so that you can make large posters. There's lots of options and it's very easy to use. There's no sign ups and it's free unless you want the more detailed options. It renders a PDF in your choice of size that you can download and print, putting it together like a jigsaw. You can get even more variation by printing in either A4 or A3. I printed and laminated a big world map that we've used in our classroom for years and having a visual reference for places in the world that's so easy to access has been a boon! It's also been great for those large spaces in classrooms or corridors that need big impact. Just a quick note on maps. I always use the ones that most accurately portray the size of countries in relation to each other. Quick tip: If Greenland looks as big as Africa, find a better map! Example of a blockposter PDF Blockposter too hard too easy 3
Celebrate the beginning of the footy seaon with a wordfind. AFL Wordsearch doc
I use https://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/word-search to make word finds. Easy to use. |
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