Card Hop: Back to School Task Card Game for Classroom Routines

Back to school · Grades 2–5 · PDF, 17 pages · Free

Card Hop is a fun back-to-school game that teaches students how to play task-card rotation games before you ever use them for content. Every desk gets a numbered card. Students answer it in the matching box on their recording sheet, then everyone hops silently to the next card on the signal. Hopper the Frog and Roo the Kangaroo, the champs of hopping, host every card.

The 32 practice cards are quick and playful (draw your favorite fruit, count the doors, write a word that rhymes with hop), with four NO WRITING cards that teach students to match the box to the card number, and six OOPS CHECK cards that show non-examples like shouting, whispering, running and staying behind.

Use all 32 cards even with a smaller class: hopping past empty seats is part of the practice. Once your class has the routine down, use the blank cards to play Card Hop with any subject all year.

What's included

• Hopper the Frog and Roo the Kangaroo on every card
• Teacher guide: setup, timing, signal and debrief
• Card Hop Rules poster
• Full-page HOP! signal sign
• 32 practice task cards (4 per page)
• Recording sheet with 32 boxes
• Answer key
• Hop Talk exit tickets
• Blank cards for any subject

How teachers use it

• First week of school
• Teaching classroom routines
• Before any task-card review game
• Indoor recess or brain breaks

Topics: elementary, grade, 2, 3, 4, 5, free