Word Wall Cheers

40 Word Wall Cheers

Word Wall Cheers

One fun way to practice spelling is to cheer the words.  Here is a list of over 40 different cheers that you can do in your classroom to help you students practice their words in a quick fun way.  Be sure to have your students say the whole word, cheer each letter, then say the whole word again.  I've been using these cheers for years in my kindergarten and first grade classrooms.  I introduce a few each week.  Then, when the kids know them all, I add them as a center activity.  The kids never seem to get tired of them!  Enjoy!

Here is the complete list:

Whisper It

Hand Jive

Raise the Roof

Disco

Throw the Stars

Mexican Hat Dance

Stomper

Motorcycle Dudes

Dribble and Shoot

Yo-Yo

Pumping Iron

Imaginary Chalkboard

Apple Picking

Robot

Tigger Bounce

Alligator Clap

Blast Off

Frogger

Back Tracer

Pat It

Boxer

Be the Letter

Hula Dance

Jumping Jacks

Toe Touches

Batter Up

Push-ups

Frisbee

Pitcher

Lumber Jack

Surfer

Swimmer

Movie Star Kisses

Opera

Fly Like a Bird

Funky Chicken

Nose Goes

Bang!

Cheerleader

Snapper Clapper

Ketchup Bottle

Volcano

Marshmallow Hands

Slow Motion

Ride'm Cowboy

Deep Voice

Mini-Mouse

Scream It

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Daily 5 Bulletin Board Poster Set - FREEBIE!

Daily 5 Bulletin Board Poster Set - FREEBIE!

Here is a collection of 6 posters that you can use to facilitate the Daily 5 in your classroom. I created these with high quality graphics so they can be printed as large as poster size. I have them hanging them across a clothesline in my classroom.

Here’s are the posters included:

The Daily 5
Read to Self
Read to Self I Chart
Read to Someone
Read to Someone I Chart
Listen to Reading
Listen to Reading I Chart
Work on Writing
Work on Writing I Chart
Word Work
Word Work I Chart

Here’s the link to the matching Daily 5 Choice Boards that my students use during Daily 5 to show where they need to go.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Daily-5-Choice-Boards-Resource-for-Managing-the-Choices-in-Daily-5

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Alphabet Poetry Book

Alphabet Poetry Book

Here is a 26 page alphabet poetry book for Pre-K, kindergarten, and first grade. Each page focuses on one letter of the alphabet. I have used this in my kindergarten classroom for several years and my students love it! It has really helped my students with tracking, alphabetic principles, and vocabulary development.

Here’s what worked for my class;

Print the cover on cardstock. I used the bookbinder to make the 26 page poetry book for each student.

Each day we read/sang the next poem, several times as the students tracked along. I insisted that each student track with a pointer. We sang the poems to the tune of The Farmer In the Dell.

Here’s how it sounded:

“A
a
A is for apple
A is for acorn
A is for airplane
They all start with A!
A
a
apple
acorn
airplane”

Then I would pick someone’s name from a can. That kiddo could choose a poem from a previous day and led the class in our microphone, as we all read it together.

I kept it interesting by offering a different pointer each day. (lollipops, pixie-sticks, licorice, pretzel sticks, wiki-sticks, straws, etc.) We also read the poem in different voices. (like a mouse, like an alien, like the principal, etc.) 

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