Happy Star Wars Day - May the 4th be With You.

NOTE: This is my second post today so be sure to read my earlier post concerning tomorrow's Cinco de Mayo activities. 

Today is May 4th, Star Wars Day.  Here's an easy activity that you can do with your children that involves movement and word/letter recognition.

Write words related to Star Wars with sidewalk chalk on your driveway.  Start your child a short distance away and tell them a word they have to find.  Help them sound it out and determine what letter it might start with.  Give them a way to move to the word (jog, walk, skip, hop, jump, slide, tiptoe, march, crab walk, leap, etc.)  For younger students, make the words in two or three different colors of chalk so you can give a color clue in helping to find the word.  Another helpful hint for our younger students is to give them the first letter or two in a word and let them find it that way.

If it's raining outside, you can do the same thing inside by writing the words on pieces of paper and laying them out on the floor.

Here are a few word suggestions:

Star            

Wars

Galaxy

Space

Villian

Ship

Cruiser

Light

Sabre

Force

Storm

Trooper
Hope
Empire

For older students you could use the names of characters.  Here are some examples:

Princess Leia

Han Solo

Luke Skywalker

Darth Vader

R2D2

C3PO

BB8

Kylo Ren

Finn

Rey
Poe

Yoda

Chewbacca

Here's an example from my driveway.  I used pink and white chalk.