In the mornings at work we typically require the kids to have some reading time at least twice a week. This is hard to reinforce since many of the kids are already required to read for a certain amount of time at school and since they are antsy to just get outside for awhile before classes start.
I found a printout recently about incorporating math and literacy into an active program in the forms of scavenger hunts, puzzles, word searches, yahtzee, Farkle etc. It is incredibly difficult to integrate some of these into the morning because of the structure we have and the fact that we are in the gym - a simple fact that seems to encourage a lot of running and tag games in the middle of reading time.
A couple of things I have actually been able to integrate (at least minimally) are penpal letters which I deliver between my morning site and my afternoon site, and some out loud reading of a Nancy Drew chapter book. I have actually found some of the kids asking me to write letters or to read Nancy Drew. This is the part that fascinates me most - the kids are now beginning to look forward to these things and remind me when I forget. This became particularly obvious after I lost some of the penpal letters. The kids chided me, "Ms. Rachel, how could you lose them?" I was glad to see that a couple of them were willing to start over and write new letters to their now designated penpal.
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