![]() ![]() Tell the students to catch a fish of a certain color. Mix them up and place them face up on the floor. ![]() Select a variety of fish that you want to practice. When you catch the fish, say, “Look, I got a 1.”Īfter, practice counting and number recognition by putting all of the fish in numerical order. Tell the students, “Let’s catch a 1!” Demonstrate for the students first. Prepare a set of fish for each student with the numbers you want to practice. The student who gets this fish says their favorite letter, wins a sticker, becomes teacher’s helper for the day, etc. Then go around the circle and have each student tell the rest of the class what letter they caught.įor even more fun, add the “star” fish to the pond. Turn the fish over (letter side down) and have students catch one fish each. (“A, please! Where is your A?”) The students should name the letters as they hand them back to you.įor this review game, use a complete set of 26 fish. Call out different letters and have the students give you the fish featuring those letters. When you have caught all of the fish, review one more time as you clean up. Aaaa… Aaaa… Aaaa….”Īsk the students, “What word starts with A?” Repeat for all of the letters. Hold up the fish after you catch it and say the letter and the sound it makes. When you catch the fish, say, “I got it!” Tell the students, “Let’s catch an A!” Demonstrate by catching an A fish. Spread the fish out with the letter side up. Make sure the students are careful with the poles and don’t swing them around!įor this game, you’ll need one copy of each lettered fish you want to practice for every student. Make a “pond” by putting rope or a hula hoop around them. Tie and/or tape one end of the string to the end of the dowel and the other end of the string to the magnet.Ĭhoose the letters/numbers you would like to practice or review and spread the fish on the floor. Make a “fishing pole” for each student in the class using a magnet, a piece of string or yarn 10-15 inches (30-40 cm) long, and a wooden dowel. If possible, laminate the fish so they will last a long time. Print one or more of the fishing games from the Super Simple Free Printables. There are three games to choose from:Ĭut out the fish and attach a paper clip near the mouth of each fish. You can use these versatile teaching tools in many ways, here are a few suggestions. Here’s a fun and easy way to learn or review letters, numbers, and colors by going fishing! Not only can kids practice motor skills by guiding the fishing line to the mouth of the fish to pick it up, each colored fish has a letter or number on it. Kids love to role play and use their imagination. ![]() We then decided to try and make some glitter stars in laminated sheets….These colorful fish come in upper and lowercase letters and numbers. The children were wowed with their finished masterpiece and each one was as individual and special as them! It was fantastic to see lots of examples of COEL in fact I am pretty confident that I observed every characteristic at some point during this little activity. Once the art work is dry, the children would like to add their own stars. We used inks and pipettes and straws to blow the ink across the paper. It was agreed they’d love to create the night sky with twinkly stars. We talked together about what activities they would like to do. We had lots of children who “just got it” but others who didn’t quite understand the concept of reflection. The children adored the book, it truly is magical! We talked about how a poem is just like this with lots of rhyming words.ĭuring fruit time we read “How to catch a star” by the utterly fabulous Oliver Jeffers. The kidlets were just fab at hearing the rhyming words. We then talked about all of the words that rhyme within this song. We began by playing our children this beautiful animation by my good friend Jim! My year group colleague is the Literacy co-ordinator at our school and found the most fantastic ideas based around twinkle twinkle little star. As today is National poetry day, we embraced poetry, grabbed it with two hands and ran with it! ![]()
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