Science shows that most children learn with movement, moving the body stimulates the brain. So, one of the activities I do with my students each week is word wall aerobics. We always do the five words that are going to be added to the word wall and I let the students pick a few more. You can also do this with spelling words for the week as a center activity once your children know the aerobics routine.
How do you do word wall aerobics:
1. Have everyone stand up to start.
2. Look at the word and notice if it has tall letters (like t or l). Tall letters are written from the top line to the bottom line. For tall letters, you put your arms over your head and stretch your body reaching for the sky.
3. Next look for short letters, letters that start at the dashed line on writing paper and go to the bottom line (like a or o). For short letters you crouch your body down half way with your hands on your hips.
4. Then look for letters that go into the basement (like g or y). These letters go below the bottom line when you write them. For basement letters, you crouch down with your hands on your hips and go down as low as you can go.
So, for the word "they":
Stand up tall with your arms over your head and say T
Stay up tall and move your arms down then back up and say H
Then crouch down half way with your hands on your hips and say E
Then crouch down all the way with your hands on your hips and say Y
Then pop back up to standing position and say "they"
The children love to do this and it helps them get their wiggles out too.
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