Today we tried an activity we’ve never tried before.
For something new in reading we played “Musical Chairs Reading”.
We took all of our chairs outside and Ms Sporn placed books onto the seat of each chair. She played music and when the music stopped we needed to stop, sit down and start reading! Then when the music started again we walked around the circle until it stopped again – then we sat down and started reading again. We had a great time!! It was lots of fun and something different to develop our reading interests.
It was a chance for us to read books we may not normally choose. Some of us discovered some new authors or series of books we’d like to add to our book boxes.
Here are some photos of today’s session. Check out our video too.
Have you ever tried Musical Chairs Reading? Do you think you’d like to?
Hi Year2/3
What a cool idea this was. I just loved watching you getting ready to read your next book. I hope you found some books that you would like to add to your I Pick-Good Fit book boxes. From Mrs nelson in Cnada
That was fun
looked like you all had lots of fun, while learning. Great work guys.
What a fantastic idea! Musical chairs is always fun and a great chance to try some new books you might normally walk past in the library 🙂
This looked like it would have been lots of fun! What a great way to have a read of a variety of books as well. I hope you all picked up something new that you enjoyed.
From, Frau Smith
I would love to try Musical Chairs Reading because it sounds like a lot of fun!
We did have lots of fun – thanks for your comment.
This week we are going to try Musical Chairs Reading with one of our Reception classes.
Look forward to hearing from you again!
Lisa
I would like my children to have a go at musical chairs just like you too! What a fun way to do your reading. I am sure you read many different kinds of books and certainly increased your knowledge.
From Mrs. Kolenberg
I wish that I could do Musical Chairs Reading. That sound cool!
I wish we coud do that at Salem.
Hi, and wow that looked fun you look liked the books that you were reading are you going to play it again at school it looked like you guys want to do it again have fun from sam 🙂
What an amazing reading activity!! Your children look like they really enjoyed themselves. I can’t wait to try this with my students.
What a fantastic idea! I have reception aged children in my class and they would love to give this a try. Looks like I might give it a go after the East holidays. Thanks for the idea guys!
Hi Mrs Reid,
Thank you so much for commenting on our blog! We really appreciate your support.
We loved reading musical chairs – it was such a fun way to practise our reading – we’ve already planned to do this again in our first week back at school after the holidays.
Thanks
Lisa S
Lovely idea!
I am Layla’s Nanna. The reading musical chairs looked like so much fun. I know Layla likes to read, so she would have enjoyed that very much. I love the work that you are doing Lisa
Looks like a fun way of exploring new books, thks for sharing, I’m going to try it at my school.Mrs Ftl
Hi Mrs Ftl
Thanks for posting a comment on our blog!!We love to share our learning with others and we’d really like to see some photos of your class doing musical chairs reading – it’s so much fun!!
Thanks
From Lisa and the Year 2/3 class
I loved this idea! I used this on Friday with my K/1 G&T class. They had the best time. I played “Skipdeedoodah” for the music. Thank you so much for this great idea!
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interesing idea i will try it with my students
Dear Miss Sporn,
Your “Musical Chairs Reading” was posted on Twitter earlier today and I have enjoyed reading about it and look forward to using it with my class in the UK…
Many thanks
Mr Neaves
http://www.jessieyounghusband.w-sussex.sch.uk/
Hi !
It is really interesting and innovative idea to increase sense of reading.
Nice idea to create interest for reading in young learners. I appreciate your affort.
This is a great idea! Thanks for sharing. I have added it to the Teach Your Monster to Read FB page too. Dannie
Great idea. Looking forward to trying it out in my new school in Singapore late this year.
This is a great idea! Thank you for sharing it! I’m going to try it!
This is a great idea! Thank you for sharing it. I am going to try it!
What a fantastic idea, having fun whilst exploring new reading material. I am going to pinch this idea and try it out! Thanks for sharing this 🙂
This is so creative. I can’t wait to try it with my first graders. So glad I found you. Hope you don’t mind if I share it with my school. Thanks.
Hi Donna,
I’d love you to share this activity with your class. We love doing it – the children are always asking when we can do it.
Thanks
Lisa
Hi there on the other side of the world. I am a teacher in Holland and love your idea of reading and dancing with chairs. In Holland we do the chairdance. Children dance and the teacher takes away some chairs. The child that has a chair at the and winns. Your activity is combined with reading and I like it very much. So we will practice it this week!