Smartboards and projectors should be engaging! This is the philosophy of first class instructor, Autumn Morrison, and then she ready out to create a spelling game to meet those needs.

"What is more than engaging than using a cream mallet to whack things?" Fall says. "The kids love the opportunity to trade in pencils and paper for mallets and moles."

To make this happen, Fall first institute adorable prune art moles. And then she created kid-friendly (and instructor-approved) mallets using pool noodles and pencils.

"School cannot be boring when you are whacking things with a cream mallet," she says. "It just isn't possible. We have Whack-a-Word Wednesday every week in my class."

Autumn uses different PowerPoint presentations to practice spelling, sight words, and more. She has a Teachers Pay Teachers store where you can pick up her unlike designs. (She will have a line of math games coming out soon likewise.) She'south likewise making one Complimentary available to WeAreTeachers correct here!

Download Autumn's Whack-A-Word Sight Words PDF and also the PowerPoint presentation to use in your own classroom.

What y'all need

  • Puddle noodles
  • Pencils
  • Whack-A-Word mats

What to do

Step one

Cut pool noodles into mallet shapes. Around six-inch lengths work really well.

Pace 2

Push sharpened pencils through the lesser of the pool noodles every bit pictured in the video.

Step 3

Turn your mallet so it's in prime whacking position, and and then it'south become time.

Instructor Tip

Don't hand out the mallets until it's whacking fourth dimension! You can command the lesson by having students follow your PowerPoint presentation. Y'all can fifty-fifty accept the presentation autoplay and walk the room to monitor!

Check out our video on how this all came together! And don't forget to check out Autumn's Teachers Pay Teachers or download the Gratis PDF and too the PowerPoint presentation of sight words!

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