Fun while learning promotes brain plasticity and creates more anchors to help students recall information and skills more easily.
This set features 10 tennis themed literacy & math games. These games include two types of short vowel sound game cards, number word cards and sentence cards as well as build a word mats and worksheets.
1. Ball Balance
Ball Balance is an exciting balancing game with a tennis theme, designed for solo or multiple player use. Perfect for developing balance, co-ordination and footwork skills. Beginning with holding onto a tennis ball in their hand, players must then run, jump or slalom through cones while keeping it out of their grasp while trying to keep their balance while using different locomotive patterns such as running, skipping or laterally shuffling to add an additional challenge to this thrilling balancing act!
The team that returns first with all their balls and sitting down wins. A coach rolls a ball between tramlines, and players attempt to move together without dropping it through their legs; any time someone drops it they lose one of their lives; once each collision occurs they score another point towards winning! The first team to achieve 20 collisions wins.
Similar to Circle Racquet Catch above but played between two teams. Each player receives three lives from the coach before feeding a high ball into play for one team to catch. If a player does so successfully they receive credit and place it onto their racquet; subsequent teammates then attempt to catch it as well before running across to try their luck on the other side of the net; ultimately the team with the highest cumulative points is victorious!
Players take turns running between two hoop to tip tennis balls into the second one and run back, tagging their team mate before starting again. This game helps improve coordination and footwork and can even serve as a great warm up or cool down activity!
2. Simon Says
Playing Simon Says can be an engaging way for children to develop listening and motor skills while practicing counting and math words. To start playing Simon Says, designate one player as “Simon.” All other players then gather around that player in line. To play Simon Says successfully, select an authoritative person as Simon and line up behind them facing one another with arms crossed behind their backs – this becomes your game board! The leader issues instructions by saying, for example: “Simon says put your hands on your head.” Other players must only perform their movements if it was preceded by “Simon says”. If a player moves without hearing this command first, they are out of the game and must sit down. At each round, one player can step into “Simon’s shoes”, adding new prompts to keep the game interesting – such as: pointing towards the sky, jumping, clapping hands three times, turning around and facing behind you, flapping wings like a bird, running half way to a wall and back, etc.
This simple game can be enjoyed by all age groups and even used to warm up players for youth tennis lessons, helping them focus on paying attention to the instructor’s commands.
Simon de Montfort was a 13th century French-English noble who overthrew King Henry III with such authority that his authority overruled King Henry. This game has many variations, though its basic rules remain unchanged. One variation includes changing up who leads depending on occasion or season (for Valentine’s Day this could mean switching from Simon to Cupid). Another modification increases pace at which leader delivers commands which forces players to listen carefully before responding quickly.
3. Rally Game
Funeselektor Labs’ Rally Game is an elegant above-view racing game with stylized graphics. While eschewing hyper-realistic images in favor of more stylized ones that still capture the feeling of driving real rally cars – with oversteer and understeer, as well as distinct handling characteristics depending on which vehicle type you choose – its engine sounds more realistic than most similar games do.
Players stand on either side of the court, and Player 1 passes the ball back and forth across the net using forehands and backhands until it lands in an alley. Each shot that hits an alley counts as one point; after counting points they switch sides and repeat the drill. This exercise is an excellent way to increase students’ heart rates while developing their ability to place balls down alleyways or, for doubles players, cross court.
Art of Rally offers various settings for race day, from wet and snowy tracks that significantly alter handling to custom rally mode. As you complete races you earn experience that unlocks new cars and liveries; finishing in higher group each year unlocks faster cars with better handling that are faster speeds and provide precise steering precision. Its control system stands out among its peers thanks to being both fun yet realistic, satisfying fans of genre racing as well as casual racers alike – an impressive feat in itself! Fans of Art of Rally as well as casual gamers looking for fast paced but forgiving racers will appreciate Art of Rally as much as its genre can appreciate fast paced yet forgiving racing experience will appreciate its unique blend of arcade-style racing mechanics against real racing/rally game physics that provides realistic race simulation with true racing/rally game physics for true fans alike and fast racers alike a fast paced but forgiving racer. Art of Rally has an exceptional control system which balances fun arcade-style gameplay while offering true racing/rally game physics; making Art of Rally an appreciated game by both fans of genre as well as those simply seeking fast-paced, forgiving racer.
4. Stealing Balls
Students can engage in various games involving tennis balls to improve their balance, co-ordination and fine motor skills. Pairs or small groups may play these games to encourage kids to go outside more and stay away from electronic media like tablets, phones or TVs.
As part of a whole group game, participants should be divided into even teams of 6-8 people and given buckets full of balls each. One member from each team should then stand up and lob a ball into another participant within their group before quickly collecting and returning it back into its original holder as quickly as possible.
After several practice rounds, teams can compete in an official tournament – the first team to finish wins! This activity makes an ideal addition to team sports activities.
Tennis-themed games for learning also include a Tennis Ten Frame Roll and Cover Game, Missing Number Clip Game and Sight Word Game(s). Through these activities children can develop both their math and literacy skills while strengthening physical ones.
Tennis Letters and Sounds Matching Game offers children another engaging tennis-themed activity: matching letters with sounds in sentences to practice memory skills while building reading and spelling ability as well as physical literacy and fine motor skills. Best of all, this can be done at home or on-the-go!
5. Roll & Cover
An engaging way to burn off excess energy and get students moving is dividing the class into two teams and having them compete through a cone maze with tennis balls, racing each other through without dropping it! Teams should run, skip or lateral shuffle through it while passing their tennis ball from team member to team member without dropping it during their return to their starting point – the first team that does so without dropping its tennis ball wins!
Running around with a large rubber ball is another excellent way to release extra energy and engage players, providing an engaging activity while improving ground stroke consistency and honing directional skills.
This game can be performed without rackets by having the coach roll balls for players while maintaining a single file line and shuffling sideways to allow the balls to pass between their feet. This activity helps develop movement patterns while providing an engaging way of warming up or ending classes with some fun!
Winter-themed games for kids that also help develop math skills can be especially rewarding, such as this winter-themed dice game for children. Children can either play alone, with friends, or family and use dot dice (which provide one to one correspondence, number recognition and counting capabilities) to cover ten frames with dots from a dot dice rollout. When competing against others they may try and see who fills up their board first!