Both the Dolch and Fry sight word lists are helpful places to start when familiarizing your child with high frequency words. But, what do you do with these words? Flash cards can rapidly become tiresome on their own. To keep learning fun, I constantly finding new sight word games to play with the princess. I Intend to share our favorite sight word games with you through out the week. The first one of our collection is based off of a game called "Sight Word Smash"
Sight Word Stomp
This Sight Word Smash game from I can teach my child became a game that was more suited to be called "Sight word Stomp" when the princess and I played. In the original directions, you make baked cotton balls (a link for the directions are provided at "I can teach my child"). Then, you write the words on the cotton balls and smash them with a hammer or your hands). We tried this, but it was a little difficult and not so much fun for the princess. So.. we moved outside! The princess and I randomly laid the Cotton balls out on the deck. Then, she started to stomp on each word after she read it. But.. yet again, we needed to improvise. The princess kept running away! She must have had a little more energy built up that day, but that happens with kids. So, we found a way she could still practice reading sight words and also expel some of that excessive energy. I had her run around the area where the cotton balls were three times. Then she stopped, found a word, read it, and "STOMP, STOMP, STOMP" she shouted every time as she crushed the word. Then she would run around again. And so the game continued until every word was smashed. She even had us collect the smashed cotton balls for the king to see when he got home!
As a side note.. I still recommend the original directions. It didn't work for us, but I can think of several of the princess' friends who would probably love to take a hammer to an object. Actually, on a different day, I think the princess would have enjoyed it too. It just happened to be one of those extremely active days in our house. "I can teach my child" is very interesting and packed with ideas. I recommend looking there for the official directions on "Sight Word Smash," but also look around the site while you are there. It's one of my favorites.
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