Do you remember playing hangman with your friends when you were little? I used to love to play that game! Recently, I discovered Spelling City. This is a great site for practicing spelling words. You can even type the list in ahead of time to have your students practice specific words. Anyway, they have a game that they call Hang Mouse and my students loved it! So, I decided to introduce them to hang man. I guess 1st graders aren’t to young for this. They did a great job! Here are some pics:
I put words on the board that I wanted them to practice. I put the words in categories by 4 or 5 letters so they could easily set up the game.
Here they are playing with a partner. The only condition was that they couldn’t switch jobs unless the guesser was able to say the word right after they guessed all the letters.
I would love to figure out a way to organize this as a word work option during Daily Five. I think I will work on that this week. Any ideas?
-Mrs. Patton
