A snowball fight!....in the classroom?

Last week we reviewed some of our phonemic awareness skills we have covered so far this year.  We were studying snow, so why not have a little fun and have a snowball fight?

At first the students were skeptical...Really, Ms. D?  There's no snow!  We discussed the concept of ending sounds again and I handed them each a half sheet of paper with a clipart picture on each one. Imagine their faces when I told them to WAD...IT...UP!  The giggles were abound!

Then the fight was on!  We did gentle tosses in the air for several minutes.

Then we uncrumpled unfurled smoothed them out and took a look at our picture clue.  After checking to make sure everyone knew what their picture was, we went to our "corners" designated by the ending letter.

Then we crumpled them back up and repeated.  It was one of those things they begged me to let them keep doing.    If only every lesson could be like this!