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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Giant Gumball Machine – Whole Class – Yearlong -Behavioral Incentive

Giant Gumball Machine – Whole Class – Yearlong -Behavioral Incentive

Here's a big  gumball machine that I use as a class incentive.  I print the gumball machine on our school’s poster printer. Then, I hang it in the classroom, low enough for all of the students to be able to reach. Near it, I have a small basket with colored dot stickers and a skinny sharpie marker.

Here’s how we fill it up:

Every student who reaches a set goal can write their name on a dot sticker and add it to the gumball machine.  The machine slowly fills up as the weeks pass.  Once the machine fills up, we have a class celebration.

Gumballs in my class are earned for:

An A on a test

Reading a published piece in the Author’s Chair

Bringing back a signed report card envelope or field trip paperwork on the first day

Some other reasons might be:

A random act of kindness

A thank you for __________.

Reading a book to the class

Doing extra jobs in the classoom

The giant gumball machine hangs in our classroom and serves as a reminder to the kiddos that they are all one team and when the they work together toward a goal, it pays off.

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