Twister Math and More!

I found a new and exciting strategy to add to my math centers!!  Twister! Ok, so... We needed to learn shapes.

As I was shopping at our local thrift store, I came across the game, Twister!

So here is what we did! We used dry erase markers and drew a triangle, rectangle, circle, and hexagon randomly on the twister spots! The leader (my awesome student-teacher) spun the spinner because you will see the students can't spin when they are all twisted!

First student: After teacher spins, "Put your right hand on a yellow triangle."

Second student: After teacher spins, "Put your left foot on a blue hexagon."

Third student: After teacher spins, "Put your right hand on a green circle."

Fourth student: After teacher spins, "Put your right foot on a red rectangle."

First student: After teacher spins, "Put your left hand on green circle" and so forth!

When a student falls, he/she is out. We then sent them to practice math facts on their computer.

I realized that we can use this for sooo many other things, like math facts, "Put your left foot on the sum 9."

Sight words: Put your right hand on the red word "like."

Spelling words: Put your left foot on the blue word, "first."  Spell it!

The leader just has to call one of the shapes, sums, or words in the spot of the color landed on.

Our students loved it!! I hope you can use this to add fun to a station in your class!