Winter Olympics Activities For The Classroom

Are y'all looking forwards to the Olympics?  Aren’t nosotros all?  Nothing similar curling upward amongst the family, the TV, together with some American pride! 🇺🇸

As a teacher, the Olympics are a bully hazard to unite the troops, thence to speak. Not alone tin they move a bully learning tool, precisely it’s our hazard to catch those sports-minded types together with reel them in.

Turn your room into Olympic headquarters amongst these fun ideas!

Opening Ceremonies

Want to acquire your classroom excited?  Host your ain opening ceremonies! You tin commencement past times showing clips from past times opening ceremonies. They tin move institute easily on YouTube. 

Then have each student(or group) select a dry soil to stand upward for that volition move inwards the 2018 games.  Have them fix a flag to carry, write a paragraph close their dry soil together with team, together with create a walk-through to innovate them. Maybe y'all tin acquire a few classes to squad upward amongst y'all together with cause got a parade some your school!

Or y'all could cause got each pupil fix their ain imaginary dry soil amongst flag together with what talent they cause got that would move Olympic-medal-worthy – similar Legos, Mindcraft, cupcake-making, selfie-taking.  Yes, y'all volition acquire the ones that state they aren’t practiced at anything, precisely that’s why this is a bully community-building activity!  (*My lilliputian hint: create an involvement survey ahead of fourth dimension to reference for suggestions!) Do those paragraphs together with and then host a walk-through to innovate your team!

Sports Close Reads

Close reading is non typically a pupil favorite, precisely if y'all give them something interesting to read- it tin fix all of the difference! 

Grab THESE wintertime sports passages. Students volition dear learning close some olympic athletes together with sports.

Incorporate Technology

Wanting to acquire those iPads into play?  Have teams race to abide by facts close the Olympics similar when they started having wintertime games, how many countries are participating this year, what dry soil the Olympics are in, what fix the USA participants volition move wearing, which dry soil normally wins the most medals, etc.  You could fifty-fifty inquire groups of students to fix iMovies close i of the countries participating. Also, move certain to a medal count cheque each forenoon together with inquire for highlights.  Use the Olympic website for all the practiced stuff! 

Need to move to a greater extent than curriculum-driven?  Do geography of the countries participating.  Do probabilities of athletes winning.  Graph medals earned from a handful of countries. Use those linguistic communication skills to tweet or electronic mail U.S. athletes questions – they are expected to interact!

Mix Sports & Competition into your Routine

All those vocab words, spelling tests, together with math facts getting monotonous?  This is the perfect fourth dimension to fix a contest out of it.  Every give-and-take or math fact correct inwards the review game is a hazard to accept a shot to shoot a goal amongst your puddle noodle stick together with dish sponge puck.  You tin fifty-fifty cross-classroom (country) ski amongst wrapping newspaper subway poles together with puddle noodle skates cutting to check together with rubber-banded to feet or become the elementary road amongst the Olympic band toss! 

Cereal Box Craft & Research

Everybody knows the winner goes on the Wheaties box!  Have your course of report fix their ain Wheaties boxes past times roofing empty cereal boxes amongst paper.  Nothing similar an old-school cutting together with glue project!  Each pupil researches an athlete that’s competing to seat on the comprehend amongst a brusque synopsis close them together with a lilliputian close the residuum of their squad on the back.  Use the side panels for having them enquiry places to see inwards South Korea, the weather/climate, together with population.  Bonus points if y'all instruct the kids a lilliputian close advertising inwards the process, too!  

Oh, together with don’t worry close getting cereal boxes to cover.  Ask on your schoolhouse website for empty-box donations, or a swap page, or your ain personal social media.  You in all likelihood cause got at to the lowest degree i identify unit of measurement that could render them all inwards i week!

Gold Medal Behavior

How close a fun deportment management competition?! Grab some medals from a political party shop or Walmart. Choose i tabular array each solar daytime to move your tabular array of the solar daytime (based on deportment together with participation from the prior day). Give each pupil at the tabular array a medal to article of apparel for the day. It volition move fun to walk downwardly the halls of the schoolhouse together with cause got people inquire why they cause got medals! Collect them at the goal of the solar daytime to give to some other grouping tomorrow.

Whatever road y'all prefer, relish this chance to cultivate patriotism together with unity.  Go USA!

Have a Not So Wimpy Day!