Act out scenes from a story
Play charades to describe characters from a story
Make a human sculpture representative of the theme of the story
Read aloud while moving around the room; all must move and all must listen to the one reader; the reader should change after an agreed upon number of lines.
Assign different parts of the room for writing different parts of an essay (introduction, conclusion, body)
Have a sign language spelling bee
Learn sign language for parts of speech; have students make the appropriate sign as you say words; work to do this as quickly as possible
Make up a "How to Write an Essay" or "Parts of Speech" or "Comma Rules" folk dance, matching words to movements
Make up a playground game that uses math operations
Make human sculptures of geometric shapes
Act out equations and their solutions
Act out word problems and their solutions
Make a "to-scale" model of something in the classroom