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Home » Reading Ideas » Learning to Read » Rocket to the Moon Sight Word Activity

Rocket to the Moon Sight Word Activity

March 25, 2016 •

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Do your kids like to be active and creative?  Then I have a great activity for you to share with them today.  Best of all, it’s a fun way to work on reading sight words.

My boys actually created this activity while they were playing with paper rockets in the kitchen one night while I was making spaghetti and meatballs.  They had made them after seeing them in their High Five magazine.  After shooting them all over the kitchen they decided they wanted a landing pad (aka the moon) to land their rockets.

I took it one step further and filled the moon with sight word craters.  Here’s how we did it.

Sight word practice gets super fun with this rocket to the moon sight word activity. Kids get to build their own rockets and send them soaring to the moon in this hands-on activity for beginning readers.

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Getting Ready to Play

Making Your Rockets

making straw rockets for a sight word activity

If you don’t get the [easyazon_link identifier=”B000I0RKX2″ locale=”US” tag=”groboobyboo-20″]High Five magazine[/easyazon_link] you can also use this straw rocket tutorial from Carolyn at the Pleasantest Thing.

Making the Sight Word Moon

creating a sight word moon for a beginning reading activity

Cut a large piece of white paper into a shape of a circle.  Draw random circles (aka craters) on the moon.  Write a sight word your child needs to practice on each crater.

Let’s Play Rocket to the Moon

Each child stands several feet away from the moon.

Blowing a straw rocket to a sight word for beginning reading practice.

Shoot the straw rocket by blowing through the open end towards the moon.

find your rocket on a sight word and read it

Read the sight word closest to where the rocket lands.

Repeat until your lungs need a break.

Variations:

  • You could keep score giving one point for each word read correctly.
  • Instead of sight words, you could use letters for alphabet recognition, spelling words or vocabulary words.

For more creative sight word practice, check out these other posts.

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Heart Delivery Sight Words

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Filed Under: Learning to Read Tagged With: beginning readers, sight words

About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

Comments

  1. Books4Learning says

    March 29, 2016 at 8:45 pm

    Looks like a fun activity! Love your blog.

  2. Heather H says

    March 28, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    My space-loving daughter, who’s in kindergarten, would love this. This is such a fun way to make sight word study into a game. Thanks again for sharing with Everything Kids this week.

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