ASSESSMENT BUSTERS

This time of year ASSESSMENT is probably on your mind. Over the next few days I'll share some games and strategies you can use to review and reinforce skills. These activities can be adapted from preschool to primary grades by changing the content from colors and shapes to letters and words and math facts. 

REMEMBER! The more senses you activate, the more likely the message will get to the brain, and that’s why you’ll find at least two senses (eyes, ears, or motor) in each one. These ideas are simple, quick, and FREE!


Funky Feet
Each day write some information you want to reinforce on a sheet of heavy paper and tape it to the floor with "funky" tape by the classroom door. Children repeat the information each time as they go in and out the door. For example:
Letters - children say the letter and something that starts with the sound
Math facts - children say the answer
Sight words - children read the word
*Hint! You could also make letters, numbers, or shapes on the floor with the duct tape.

 

"Super" Visor

Each day choose a key skill you want the children to master. This could be a letter, shape, animal, vocabulary word, math fact, etc. Adapt to your curriculum and the level of your students. Write the skill on the index card and tape it to the visor. One child is selected to be the “supervisor” for the day. That child stands at the door whenever you leave the classroom with their arm stretched out. Classmates must say the information on the visor before exiting.

High Five

Cut two hands out of construction paper and write key skills on them. Tape to the classroom door. Each time children enter or exit the classroom they “high five” the hands and say the information.


Name Badges
Write letters, words, numbers, etc. on paper cut to fit in a name badge. Children wear the name badges and walk around the room and greet friends referring to them as the information on the badge. For example: “Hello T.” “Hello M.”

Bracelet
Cut construction paper 1 ½” x 7”. Write skills on the paper and then tape to children’s wrists like a bracelet. During the day frequently call attention to the bracelet by saying, “Show me___.” “Shout out what’s on your bracelet?” “Tell your parents 3 times tonight what is on your bracelet.”




Mirror
Children love to look at themselves in the mirror, so tape a different flash card each day with letters, numbers, words, vocabulary, math facts, or other skills you want the children to master.  Remind them to say what is on the flash card and smile at themselves because they are so smart!

Tiptoe and Touch
The teacher calls out a letter, number, shape, etc. The children must tiptoe around the room and touch something that matches what the teacher calls out.