The Final Four March Madness Basketball Tournament started today. I really love college basketball! With my son attending Michigan State University, we’ve been lucky enough to travel to East Lansing to see a few games. On top of that, we are traveling again to MSU this weekend to watch our high school basketball team compete in the class B semi-finals. How exciting!! This is the first time in 40 years that our high school team has made it this far in the play-offs. Wishing them all the luck in the world. Well, in honor of the Final 4, I whipped up a few activities for our little basketball fans.
Click HERE to download Swoosh! Basketball Sight Word Game from my TpT store.
The Swoosh! game is pretty easy to put togther and makes for a fun literacy center activity. Students simply take turns choosing a basketball and reading the word. If the player picks the “Swoosh” card, he/she can choose 3 more balls. However, if the player chooses the “Penalty” ball, all the balls must be put back into the pile and play continues. The Swoosh! game is a fast-paced activity with lots of opportunities for response.
Just for my first grade friends working on long vowel sounds, I created the game with words using common vowel teams.
Click HERE to download Swoosh! Basketball Game for Vowel Teams
Seems like everytime I create a fun activity for reading, a receive a request for the same activity for math. So, if you need a math center activity, here’s the game for practicing addition and subtraction facts to 20.
Click HERE to download the Swoosh! game for math.
Hope you enjoy these basketball-themed activities. Even if you are not-so-much a hoops fan, they are really fun. AND… hoping you’ll watch at least a little bit of the March Madness Tournament–it’s all exciting.
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