During the hot days of summer - a fun sensory activity to review sounds can be a water balloon bingo game. Students use chalk to draw out their bingo board and sounds onto the sidewalk. Remind them to repeat and spell the sounds as many ways as they can. This is one of my many variations to do the traditional visual and auditory drill on paper. Instead of just calling out the sounds, I had a bag full of pictures where the student get to pick one out and identify the picture and throw 1 water balloon onto the sound. For example: the students picks out a picture of a 'car'. They tell me what the picture is "car". I ask them to throw a water balloon onto the beginning sound which is 'c'. When they throw it on to the sound it disappears. When they make a line disappear they got bingo. Play for blackout!! You can use this also to practice specific sounds also such as word ratio charts.
I had some leftover water balloons and let them do their spelling drill onto the concrete with chalk. They helped me erase it by throwing the leftover water balloons onto what they wrote. The only downfall was that we were a little wet for the rest of the lesson but it got them very excited to do their visual, auditory and spelling drills.
I had some leftover water balloons and let them do their spelling drill onto the concrete with chalk. They helped me erase it by throwing the leftover water balloons onto what they wrote. The only downfall was that we were a little wet for the rest of the lesson but it got them very excited to do their visual, auditory and spelling drills.