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[IAMAROBOT]

Hey all,

Has anyone ever tried a puzzles or board games theme for their winter camps? I was considering doing this, but it seems a little boring for low level 5th and 6th grade elementary students.

For the puzzle day, I want to have them make their own picture puzzles, so they paste a picture onto some cardstock, cut it out and give the puzzle to other classmates to solve. I was also thinking of having them make their own word search puzzles, photocopying them, and giving them to other students to solve.

For the board game day, I was thinking of teaching them some game vocabulary like "Your turn" "My turn" "Go 1,2,3, etc. spaces" and have the Ss make their own board game in the end.

[cruisemonkey]

Scrabble went over well with my boys middle school summer camp. I organized a round robbin tournament over two, 45 minute classes. The problem is - you need either very few students, or several boards.

[tomato]

Sound like good ideas. Here are some of my favorites:

■ bingo games

Bingo games can get 'most any point across: verb tenses, parts of speech, long and short vowels. I make all of my bingo games 6 to a board. That way, I can keep bingo markers in groups of 6.

■ matching card games

Make decks of cards in matches and you can play concentration, old maid, go fish, or bango (bingo without the boards. The teacher takes one of each pair, passes out the other cards, and administers the game.)

Again, you can demonstrate verb tenses, parts of speech, or long and short vowels.

■ SVO games

On one-third of the cards, put an S in the corner, on one-third put V, on one-third put O. Put subject nouns or pronouns on the S cards, verbs on the V cards, and object nouns or pronouns on the O cards. You can choose to illustrate or not illustrate.

Shuffle, turn the cards over, and lay them on the table random fashion. Then take turns looking for S-V-O combinations.

You can demonstrate phonemes ("Charlie Chan chooses cheese."), verb tenses ("Suzy will be hitting Kevin."), or 'most anything else.

■ dice games

Each student takes a half sheet of paper. In two columns, each student writes a verb conjugation in two columns, with the items numbered 1 through 6.

For instance, the first column might be:

1. I go.
2. You go.
3. He goes.

The second column might be:

4. We go.
5. You go.
6. They go.

Each student then takes turns rolling a die.
The student reads the respective sentence, reads that sentence, marks that sentence, and the next student takes a turn.
The winner is the first student to read all 6 sentences.

[maingman]

..hunt the 1/2 decent korean co-teacher ?!

[sojourner1]

I'm seeing lots of great ideas recently, but how do you play games with 20 to 30 students and without a Korean co-teacher? I mean you can do Bingo if you have the materials and you can do hangman, but I mean other games like the dice game. Tomato I really like your dice game, but 9 or 10 has to be max or it will take too long to a players turn again so they'll get bored and talk or misbehave. I'm talking about teaching elementary Winter camp by myself with students I haven't ever taught. These are low level rural students with the camp directors goal of them only speaking English as an explanation for no Korean teacher involved.

I used to play board games, card games, bingo, and such with hagwon students since there were only 10 of them to a class, but gave it up with large PS classes and tend to do group activities like kids karaoke which they love to do. I had a small 7 student Summer camp and it went really well with a variety of activities and games for which there were materials available. Problem is, I found out yesterday, my camp won't have a multimedia system. I don't have any resources other than a classroom with 3 tables of 6 or 7 students each so I at least already have a 3 teams/groups situation set up. Time to get creative.

[IAMAROBOT]

Actually, I've had a great deal of success with this board game I use for teaching reading and vocabulary in big and small classes. I have a standard gameboard (roll a dice, advance a certain number of steps) and I fill every square with one of the target vocabulary words/phrases that we've learned.

For illnesses, I taught "have a headache"(1), "have a cold"(2) "have a fever (3) "have a stomachache" (4) "have a bloody nose" (5) and "have a sore throat". If a student rolls a 1, they go to the next "I have a headache" square on the board. The good thing about this game is that they're constantly reinforcing the words with the picture when they look to the board and it's also really easy to explain.

Here's the gameboard I used for this lesson:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=11c41b07516b4812d2db6fb9a8902bda