Happy Sight Give-And-Take Basketball

It is Tuesday, which agency it is fourth dimension for our Move & Learn series!

Man oh human being did nosotros own got fun moving as well as learning this week! My 5-year-old boy only started a weekly basketball game army camp as well as he loves it! He is also genuinely interested inward writing as well as reading lately.

I decided to accept some of the words that he's been learning as well as utilization them to do a uncomplicated sight give-and-take basketball game game. We honey finding ways to accept his interests as well as plough them into opportunities for learning!

I went through a basic kindergarten sight give-and-take list as well as selected a few words that he already knows pretty good as well as a few harder words that he's been getting stuck on during reading as well as embedded them into our game.

Our sight give-and-take game helped us recognize, read, as well as spell the words along alongside allowing us to exercise dribbling the basketball, passing, as well as aiming. Some of you lot own got asked when to kickoff introducing sight words to your kids. My response is, "it depends on your child." Every kid is develops differently, hence innovate the concept inward a fun as well as playful way if you lot retrieve they are laid for it... as well as they volition allow you lot know if they are not. I ever know my kids aren't laid for something when I acquire a huge headache from it because it isn't working as well as everyone is frustrated. :)

Supplies:

foam sheets (or shapes... nosotros used pumpkins)
sharpie
basketball (one for each participant)

Directions:

To acquire started I wrote several sight words on the foam shapes alongside a Sharpie.

Next nosotros grabbed our basketballs as well as headed outside. We placed the foam shapes all over the terra firma as well as skillful reading the words. Foam shapes are cracking on pavement because they don't motion around. They volition nonetheless acquire dirty!

Then nosotros started playing our sight give-and-take basketball game game.

Game 1:

Dribble from sight give-and-take to sight give-and-take trying to bounce correct on the give-and-take as well as read it out loud... as well as hence motion to the side past times side one.

Game 2:

Player 1 calls out a sight give-and-take as well as Player 2 dribbles to it. Then they switch roles.

Game 3:

Player 1 calls out a sight word. Player 2 tries to dribble to that sight give-and-take spell Player 1 tries to tag Player 2 earlier she reaches the sight word. If tagged, as well as hence Player 2 is the chaser (we called it the monster) as well as Player 1 is the dribbler. (I pushed the babe unopen to alongside me when it was my plough to live the chaser... he had a blast)

Game 4:

Spread foam sight words out unopen to the terra firma past times the basketball game hoop. Step on a sight word, read it, as well as and hence shoot a handbasket from that spot. Move to the side past times side word, read it, as well as shoot again. My boy can't genuinely shoot a handbasket inward our super tall neighborhood hoop... but he certain likes to try. He did shoot granny shots as well as fifty-fifty managed to acquire a few backwards ones in. Our principal finish was to own got fun though!

Preschool/Toddler Version:

My 2-year-old loved this game too! Instead of dribbling as well as racing, she would walk unopen to as well as throw the ball at the foam sight words. She would expect for letters that she knew, tell the letter, as well as and hence throw the ball at the word. Sometimes she fifty-fifty tried to dribble similar her brother.

For example, I said, "Catie, tin give the axe you lot uncovering a missive of the alphabet inward your name?" She wandered around, flora the give-and-take can, as well as said, "This give-and-take has a C inward it for Catie." I replied, "You're right! That is the give-and-take can and it starts alongside the missive of the alphabet C only similar your yell does." She was hence excited. She only kept roaming around, finding letters she knew, proverb them, as well as and hence throwing the ball at them.

Have you lot ever used a basketball game for a learning activity? We loved practicing spelling every bit nosotros played "horse" growing up... but I'd honey a few other ideas if you lot own got them! Please percentage them inward the comments.

Our Sight Word Basketball game is business office of the Move as well as Learn Series that I am participating inward along with The Pleasantest Thing, and Coffee Cups as well as Crayons.

Make certain to cheque out this week’s other Move as well as Learn activities below as well as and hence bring together the iv of us side past times side calendar week for fifty-fifty to a greater extent than motion as well as acquire ideas!

Math Scavenger Hunt from The Pleasantest Thing
Number Match Slap alongside Playing Cards via Hands On: As We Grow

You tin give the axe also cheque out our Move as well as Learn Pinterest Board for to a greater extent than inspiration! Or come across the other posts we've shared inward this series...