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If you are a teacher in a kindergarten school you will know all about the requirements needed when it comes to the children’s writing and reading. So if you are welcoming your kids back from a winter break and it is bitterly cold outside, why not break the ice with this special game of scavenger hunt.

The sight words that your kids have been learning will make a great topic for the scavenger hunt. This game will definitely improve their reading and writing goals. Start by splitting the class of twenty pupils into groups of four. That will give you five groups to play the game.

Now take twenty sight words and copy five sets of them before laminating them. You then need to color code these sets. You can use Yellow, Blue, Red, Purple and Green for this game. Each team will then be given a color and it is the aim of the group to find all twenty words in their particular color.

For clues to the whereabouts of the words you could draw little illustrations with a bit of written text on them. If you were hiding the word “like” on a chair, the clue would be a picture of the chair with a written clue saying on the chair! It may sound simple but do not forget that these are kindergarteners and are still learning these words.

The children will know their classroom back to front so it should not be hard for them to find the hidden words. You, as the teacher and your paraprofessional if you have one, could take turns in assisting different teams to find the words. It is always better when you are splitting them into groups to give each group a varied spectrum of reading levels in each group. That is to say do not put all the good readers in one group and the slightly worse readers in another group as this would be unfair.

Once all the clues have been solved you could sit in a circle and discuss the words and their meanings. You could ask who found a clue referring to the word “under “or “over” or any other word you choose to select.

This is not only a good way to help with their understanding of words, but it makes learning fun too.

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