Spelling Scramble

Ms. Karr helped me with a new activity this week to help students learn their spelling words, it's called Spelling Scramble. All the spelling words are written on a piece of paper and given to the students. Each word is outlined with a box. All our words this week have a long a, one of them is face. You have the children find the word face and color it red (or whatever color you'd like). You continue this with all the words until every word is colored a different color. After all the words are cut out, assign each student a partner. With their partner students are to cut the letters of the word called out by the teacher and scramble it up. They then trade placesm unscramble the word, spell it as a class, and glue it onto a sheet of paper. This process is continued until all the words are unscrambled. Unfortunatly this week, we did not get to unscramble all the words because it was our first time so it took a while to get into the groove, however, it was still really fun for the students. They really enjoyed playing spelling scramble and wanted to do it again next week. We have an uneven number of students so one student got to play with Ms. Karr. He had a blast trying to "trick" her. He was spelling the words backwards and watching to see if she could fingure it out. I really like this activity, and so did the children. This is one activity I plan to keep in my mind and use in my own classroom. I love how engaged the students were and how much fun they were having. This is a great lesson to show that the novice teach is a facilitator for all learners because students are up moving around (kinesthetic), the words are color coded(Visual), and they are spelling them out loud(Audio.) Thanks Ms. Karr for the great idea!