Spring circle time games

If you are teaching master matchers hand one wing to each student and have them find the correct match. Any fruit can be used. I like to use apple, pear, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, kiwi, grapes, pineapple, and mandarin oranges.

You will also need small bowls for each and one large salad bowl. You will want some whole fruit to examine like a pineapple, apple, mandarine orange, and kiwi. Have one serving of each fruit already chopped during free choice have the children help you do some chopping. Ask each child which fruit or vegetable is their favorite. Pass around the whole fruit you have and talk about how the fruit feels and smells. Remind the children about the chopping they did earlier.

Explain that they will now make a salad with the fruit. Invite each child to come pour one bowl of chopped fruit into the bowl. Serve and enjoy. Laminate the flowers and stems then cut out. Have the stems on the board before you read the book. Ask the children what their favorite color is. Ask if they would like to help you plan a rainbow flower garden too! Show the class the stems on the board and explain that you have the flowers in your basket. You need their help matching them. Invite each child up to the board to choose a color and add it to the stem.

Once the garden is complete count to see how many flowers in total are in it. Like this post? Share it with a friend! Become an Email Subscriber Sign up above and receive all new No Time for Flashcards posts directly in your email inbox.

You may also like these posts. Oh I am so glad — I try to use books that are common! All this info is fabulous! Here are 37 great games and activities to keep things fresh and fun. Having taught for a number of years, I have built up a collection of tried-and-proven circle-time games which have not only been enjoyable for the children but beneficial too. Many of these games encourage teamwork and social interaction.

As a result, children soon learn that a positive attitude can lead not only to success but also to immense enjoyment. The games in this article are geared toward primary-school-age children 5—11 , however, some that require higher levels of cooperation and problem-solving are more appropriate for the later primary ages roughly 8— In fact, some of these games would even work for preschoolers! The learning objectives of each game and any necessary materials are listed below each activity. It is worth printing these out, cutting them up and popping them in a circle-time drawer.

Then if you ever have a spare 20 minutes or a wet day, you can delve in and start having fun. Beware, there will be a lot of giggling! Give each child a card, then—without showing their cards—have them find the classmate with the matching card. This done, play the game again, but this time, have them find their partner without talking. Learning Objectives: working together, problem-solving, cooperation, communication. Split into 5—10 groups with several students each.

Each group has several spots. Can they all stand on the spots? Now take one away spot, two spots, three spots, etc. Have the kids hold still for 3 seconds without touching the floor. You can also use hoops for this, or get the whole class to stand in a hoop. Materials: spots to stand on anything from paper or plastic circles to hula hoops. Children stand in a circle and the teacher taps one on the shoulder.

The child starts an action e. The teacher then taps another on the shoulder and the children change to the new action that student comes up with.

This can also be done with sounds! Learning Objectives: problem-solving, cooperation, communication, working together, leadership, creativity, improvisation. Their partner must close their eyes and guess what the shape is. In a circle: Children are to pass the shape around without talking and see if the shape is the same at the end.

Just like telephone! Learning Objectives: problem-solving, cooperation, communication, working together, leadership, self-confidence, decision-making. Children stand in a circle. One blindfolded child stands in the middle. A child from the outer circle makes an animal noise and the blindfolded child has to guess who made the noise.

Learning Objectives: problem-solving, cooperation, communication, working together, leadership, self-confidence, decision-making, trust, creativity, improvisation. Give every child a part of a puzzle or picture. The child has to find which other children have the rest of their puzzle and put it together.

They must then work together to complete the puzzle as quickly as possible. Through the Hoop is a fun and silly game that fosters teamwork and communication. You can also add more hoops or divide the class into smaller groups and have them race each other to get the hoop around the circle first.

Learning Objectives: problem-solving, cooperation, communication, working together, leadership, self-confidence, decision-making, creativity. Learning Objectives: cooperation, motor skills, creativity, communication, working together, following instructions.

Children must pass the jingle ball around the circle with their hands without making a noise. Then have them pass it under and over their heads, side to side, etc. Give every child a card each. Spring is in the air! But, these spring circle time games will solve that problem for you!

We play at least one of these games in my room each day, and my kiddos always beg me to play again! I uses them for every single theme we do! When I use this one during circle time, I spread out the flowers in the middle of the carpet. My kiddos and I sit in a circle around them.

Then we say the chant:. I choose one of my kiddos to pick a flower. They look at the letter on the flower and tell me the sound it makes. If they get it right, they get to keep the flower card. And, when I want to work on letter names, we still play this game, but we use this chant instead:.

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