I love this book because not only does the car do a lot of zooming but the road up the mountain is very zigzaggy. After you are done having fun with the book and the children, you could make your own mountain on your dry erase board and draw a zigzag pathway up the mountain. Put your sight words on there or whatever skill you are desirous of covering. Students take their cars and zoom up the mountain, saying the sight words as they go. You could even time them with a stop watch and record the times. Then everyone could do it a second time to see if they could beat their first time. How about a winner's circle or having one student hold a checkered flag when the reader reaches the top of the mountain? When everyone sees the checkered flag go down, cheers for the reader will bring excitement to the game.
Another activity is to use a version of musical chairs except you will use no chairs and no one gets eliminated. Instead, students will walk around a table (best for 5 or 6 students, not a whole roomful). On the table put fabric or paper and draw a racetrack. Divide the racetrack up into squares and put your sight words in the squares or pictures of objects and they will have to give beginning or ending sound. If you are working on CVC words, then put those pictures in and students will have to spell.
Put the racetrack music on and give each child a plastic toy racecar. Students position themselves around the table and start "zooming" their car around the racetrack. When the music stops, students read the sightword that their car lands on.
This is a good activity for those restless learners. If you want to follow up with a writing activity give them a paper with a racecar on it that has a writing line in it and they could write down: I raced a (color of car) car today.
Then they would walk around the room reading their statement to 3 or 4 people.
Any other ideas out there?
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