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In our weekly co-op, I help teach a 1st grade phonics class. We have SEVEN VERY ACTIVE BOYS and one girl who keeps right up with them....
Any suggestions for active phonics games ... I thought about hopping on letters to spell words and also about tossing beanbags but quickly decided beanbags in 6/7 yo boys' hands was not necessarily a safe thing.
So, what would you do?
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Mary,
I do something similar to musical chairs and use it for math, phonics, learning colors or whatever. I use a round table cloth and put down around the outside edge whatever we are working on. For you, this would be phonics letters or pictures of things. Have them walk around the outside of the table cloth (or you could use chairs) and play the music. When you stop the music, they stop on a picture or letter and each child identifies what they are on.
I know I have more ideas but will have to hunt them down. there is only so much I can store in the "upstairs" file. 
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How much space do you have? If you have a gym, a field (best) or a really large room, you can put paper plates with letters on them around the room (maybe 8 or so common ones). All the kids stand in the middle to start. You call out a word and they have to run to the letter of the beginning sound. (ie call out "bat" and they all run to B. Then call out "cat" and they all run to C, etc).For more of a challenge you can change up the rules and they have to run to the end sound, or flip the plates over and there are vowels on the other side, and they have to run to the middle sound.
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A couple more suggestions I thought of this morning.
The first is a variation on the "predator/prey" game.
Divide the group up into two and have one group be the long vowels and the other be the short vowels.
Have them stand in the middle of the field/gym/room with a "base" at either end (one for each team).
You call out a word and if it is a short vowel word then the short vowels try to tag all the long vowels while they try to run to base.
If they get to base they are safe. If tagged, they become part of the other team. Everyone goes back to the middle and another word is called.If a long vowel word is called out, then the long vowels chase the short.
Even my middle schoolers used to love this game (of course it was predator/prey for them and is played slightly differently).
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These are great ... please keep suggesting. These kids are WONDERFUL but need lots of action. I was also thinking of phonics bingo of playing a variation on twister by having them choose vowel sounds instead of colors ....
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Next game is not quite as active, but still requires movement and coordination.Involves rhyme and rhythm.
It's nothing but the good old hand-clapping game of Miss Mary Mack. You know it?
If not here it is:
Sit in pairs opposite each other, legs crossed.
Clapping motion is--
1.hands crossed on chest (pre-communion style)
2.hands down to knees
3.clap
4.clap right hand to other child's right hand, then clap hands together,
5.clap left hand to other child's left, clap together,
6.clap right to right again (or both hands at once)
(repeat)
The rhyme:
Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
all dressed in black, black, black
with silver buttons,buttons, buttons
all down her back, back, back
She asked he mother,,,
for fifteen cents,,,
to see the elephant,,,
jump over the fence,,,
he jumped so high,,,
he hit the sky,,,,
and didn't come back,,,
til the fourth of July,,,
Let them practice slowly until they get it right. Then if you want you can have them go faster and faster and see how fast they can do it.
It's a great way to start/end a discussion on rhyme and syllables. Have them pick out the rhyming pairs from the song and see how many they can get. (the last "back" is an easy one to miss)
Hope these help!
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One I do with my learning to read child is, 'hide the phonic card'. So the cards may be under the lounge, in the bookshelf etc, they find it, bring it to me and sound it out. My more active boys loved that.
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