Engaging Games to Get Your Students Moving While Learning

Now more than ever, it's important to include some movement into learning. With schools limiting recess, free play, and even special area classes like PE, music, art, etc. This is one reason I developed my Fluency & Fitness resources a few years ago. I wanted to make learning more fun again! 

Fluency & Fitness allows students to work on essential reading and literacy skills, but then get a chance to move and exercise every few slides. Here's a sneak peek of some Fluency & Fitness in action in the classroom. 

These games can be used during your reading or math block, transitions, brain breaks, morning meeting, inside recess, etc. They only take about 2-3 minutes to play and are very helpful to give your students a fun way to review. Below is a preview from my Silent E Fluency & Fitness Bundle. This particular game has students turn CVC words into CVCe words. 

Students BEG to do these and don't even realize how much they're learning. Teachers love that not only are their kids having fun, but they don't have to lose any instructional time. This is the Money Fluency & Fitness Bundle.

I left these games so you can adapt them for your own classroom. You can choose to click through the slides manually or add a timer if you'd like to participate with your students. :) I like to click through so I can go slow as we are still practicing the skill, then a lot faster as they've mastered it. This Number Sense Fluency & Fitness is one my best sellers. You can find more Fluency & Fitness games here, including grade level bundles and my popular MEGA bundle!

Since teachers are loving Fluency & Fitness, I wanted to create something similar but with a team or small group aspect and Holiday themes. My new resources called Fluency Find It have students work in small groups. Students look at the screen and then find the answer on a worksheet at their table. They may find the matching letter, middle vowel sound, answer to the math problem, etc. That student continues playing until they see the "switch spots" slides, and then they go to the end of the line. Students may help each other with the answers if their friend needs help. I've played these games since October and really love watching how the students work together.

Each Holiday comes with 5 games that students should be fluent in for that time of the year. Here's a peek of the 1st grade St. Patrick's Day Fluency Find It in action. I have these games for Kindergarten and 1st grade, but will be working on the 2nd and 3rd grade sets soon. You can find all of my Fluency Find It game here. 

Spring Into....CVC Word Family Poems!

Gathering great resources for the classroom is something many teachers do all year long, not just at back to school. Now that spring is here, it can be time to refresh or give some new life to our teaching day, and we at EE are so excited to be able to give away some brand new resources to a lucky winner!

In Kindergarten, we work hard on learning to read! We unlock reading through mastering our letters and sounds, and then we move on to master blending and reading CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words.

Being able to read CVC words fluently helps kids see and become familiar with patterns in words, especially when looking at word families or word chunks (cat, bat, hat, mat, etc)

Word family poems are quick, fun, and simple way to practice building up fluency with CVC words!

There are 23 printable poems in the set, each one focusing on a different short vowel word family. This allows students to identify the patterns and rhymes in the poems and to get repetitive practice with reading them. 

The poems are made up of CVC words and beginning sight words, so they not only work on identifying word families and patterns, but build up sight word fluency too! 

You can choose to read the poems one at a time and then send them home for additional practice, or you can choose to collect them in a poetry notebook so that your kids can read them over again during Read to Self time or in small groups.

The great thing about them being printable is that there are tons of options - you could even send a set home and keep one at school!

The entire set of CVC poems is available HERE in my TpT store. You can also find it combined with alphabet and CVCe poems in the Phonics Poems Bundle. 

Know what's even better? You can WIN it, along with tons of other resources but entering the Rafflecopter below!

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