Making sight word practice fun makes it more effective! The more sight words new readers know automatically the better they can comprehend the text they are reading. Since Halloween is coming we decided to practice with a little sight word ghost zapping!
The premise of the game is similar to our Fire Hose Fact Practice Game, where the kids read and squirted the chalk sight words.
I used white sidewalk chalk to draw ghosts on our driveway with sight words on them.
He read the words to me and then “zapped” them with the water squirter!
This one was lots of fun and easy to play over and over again! All I had to do was rewrite another word in the middle of the ghosts and we could keep playing. You can put letters, numbers, math facts, or anything you want in the middle of the ghosts depending on what your child needs to practice.
We love to Move and Learn! Each week we are joining with The Pleasantest Thing, Hands on : as we grow, and Toddler Approved to share fun and active educational ideas.
Fun Move and Learn Activities:
- Spider Web Tape Game from The Pleasantest Thing
- Spider Crawl Color Race from Toddler Approved
- Photo Scavenger Hunt for Shapes from Hands on : as we grow
- All of my Move and Learn posts!
I just put away my son’s water gun. I guess I need to take it out again. This looks like a lot of fun.
Look at that cute ghost buster! My son will LOVE this!
This looks like so much fun!! I can’t wait to try it when my boys get a little bit older. Pinning!
Thanks Malia! It was a lot of fun!!!
I need to have my five year old pull out his super soaker before winter weather sets in and use it for this fun idea! Love it!
It was super fun Anna!
Featuring on Monday – I’ll let you pin to the group board 🙂
Thanks Anna!
Oh! I love this so much, Megan!!! 🙂
Thank you Val!!!!!!