Tuesday, October 9, 2007

literacy in Physical Education

I find that is easier to integrate literacy with smaller children because they are willing to anything to have fun in their physical education class. Using note cards to do relay races is an example of using literacy in Physical education. For example have to piles of note cards with words written in them, split the class into 4 groups each group will have 5 minutes to create a sentence that make sense and they can also make more than one sentence if they have time. One student from each group will run to the pile of note cards and pick up one note card and bring back to their group this will go on for the five minutes the group with the best or the most sentence will be reward with points. this is just one example of integrating literacy and other subjects into physical education. Another way is to use math note cards, or use short stories to explain the rules of a game or safety procedures.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like your idea of playing create a sentence games with relays. It's definitely a great idea for the younger kids. I don't remember ever doing any type of literacy activity in any of my PE classes growing up. You have good ideas though.

nickyF said...

Those are some great ideas for elem. phys.ed.! I think I am going to incorporate them into my class next time I am subbing.