Today, when the kids were with me at centers, they had the chance to play a really fun game called "Leaping Frogs!" This game had bean bags and lilly pads and little bouncing trampolines for the bean bags to fly off of - pheww... crazy day as you can imagine -- but oh so fun!
Leaping Frog! is a great game. My CT took the lilly pads and remade some extras so that they were laminated pieces of green construction paper with the student's sight words on them.
This game could really be adapted for many different uses (reading, math, science, anthing really!)! Create away!!
The kids take the bean bag and GENTLY toss the bean bag to the trampoline and the bean bag then lands on one of the lilly pads which has their sight words written out on them. The child reads the sight word and then colors the lilly pad green on their worksheet with the corresponding word on it. This process repeats for about 7 or 8 mins.
When the time is up, they flip over their worksheets and do the same thing on the other side except they write out the sight word with a pencil on their blank lilly pads instead of coloring in the lilly pad.
As you can imagine -- the kids LOVE this game. They did not even want to go to snack (their next station) they would have played the game all day!! Also, we played this game in the hallway, which was a good excuse to make sure they stayed in line (noise wise) while playing this fun, but potentially LOUD AND EXCITING leap frog game!
A leapingly lovely day in kindergarten today!
Keep Creating!
Love,
Ms. Jaclyn
