Hockey Themed Sight Word Activities!

I have to admit it, hockey is not my sport. My own kiddos spent hours on the soccer field and on the slopes so there just wasn’t enough time for the skating rink. However, hockey is a very popular sport up in my neck of the woods and I’ve had tons of requests to transfer the soccer themed activities into hockey related activities. So that is my mission this winter. Actually, I updated all the sports themed activities to include game boards which can be mounted on file folders as well as Climb and Slide boards and combined them into sports-themed bundles. Just for a storage idea, I used these file folder containers purchased at Office Max. All the file folder game boards as well as the other activities store perfectly.

Kyle (my artist) created these adorable game board templates. There’s a little bit of work in terms of gluing the templates onto the file folders, but once laminated, the game boards will last for years and years. In the hockey themed sight word bundle there are 9 game boards containing words from the Dolch sight word list. I purchased 3″ plastic spinners in bulk online for my game boards, but if you choose, you could easily use a paperclip and a pencil as the spinner.

Mounted on a file folders and laminated, the hockey themed Climb & Slide game boards will also last for years to come. These boards also contain words from the Dolch sight word list. There are 3 game boards contained in this bundle. All you’ll need to play this game are game pawns and a die.

The Four-In-A-Row Game and the Race the Top Game are always tried and true favorites for center activities. Each activity contains 9 colorful game boards. You can easily differentiate this activity by choosing which game boards the students use. For example a student just learning sight words can use the first Race to the Top game board and another student may use the fifth. Both students can be engaged in the same game!

There is nothing fancy about the Goal! activity, but it’s a guarantee that this activity will be a favorite. I love activities that are fast paced and offer tons of opportunity for practice. This game fits perfectly. Simply print the hockey pucks single-sided to double-sided, cut out the pucks and you’re ready to go. First choose which and how many words to use and then lay the pucks word side down on the table. The students take turns choosing pucks and reading the words. If the “Goal” is chosen, the student can pick a few more pucks; if the “Penalty” is chosen all the pucks must be put back in the pile. The player with the most pucks at the end of the time wins the game. Super simple, yet very engaging.