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[D-Jay]

I'm trying to get ideas for games that PS students can play during these two dead weeks at PS. This week we're playing Jeopardy, but I want to try a different game next week. Are there any other games that can last a full 45-minute class period?

[Rusty Shackleford]

It's a bad idea to spend that long doing one thing. Take 5 mins to get to class, play a short video, play a game for 25 mins, then finish 5 mins early. They will go mental if you do the same thing for 45 mins. There are heaps of games on ddeubel's site.

[jonbowman88]

This isn't really a game, but it's great if your a lazy ace teacher. I have a couple Powerpoints I made. The PPs give step by step instructions on coloring/drawing a picture. One PP is drawing a monster and the other is drawing a bird on a hill with some other crap. 45 mins may be stretching it a little but u can defiantly use the majority of the class doing this. The other great thing is that u can use it for kindergarten through middle school. anyways give a prize to the best picture and your gold sit in your chair and tell the kids good job. PM me if u want my PPs good luck

[Fishead soup]

It's never a very good idea to try to kill the full period with games. Use the game to test the students knowledge at the end.

Although if you insist. You can kill quite a lot of time with this activity.

Dictation races
Write up a simple paragraph and paste it on the wall. Reinforce it well as some students will want to pull in off. Students will race to rewrite paragraph. One students will write while the rest will run read memorize and say. The first team to copy the full paragraph wins.

This should be followed by story re-tell. Try to get students to re-tell story using their own words.

[some waygug-in]

Here's one I used this week for middle school:


Secret Code. Divide class into 4 teams.

Tell them you are going to write a message in a secret code on the board, the first team to figure it out correctly gets points.

Like this: nz obnf jt Kpio Tnjui

To solve, change each letter to one letter previous in the alphabet.
n=m, z=y, o=n etc.

Do a few sentences this way, then change it to one letter following, then two letters, then 3, 4, 5 etc. Keep changing it up so they can't start before you have all the sentence written on the board. If you don't change every time, it may not be fair because some will start figuring it out before you even get it written out. Don't tell them how to solve it until it's finished and everyone is ready. Then say "3 letters back" or "4 letters ahead" etc.

You'll have to prepare about 20 -25 of these and check them before class so there are no mistakes.

There are always students who refuse to participate, but I was surprised at how interested my students got at doing these.

[Rusty Shackleford]

[meursault]

Scattergories (if you allow them to write as many words as possible) usually takes a while--particularly the scoring.

If you have some time left over, you can play Taboo.

[Smee]

One thing that I've been doing for the post-exam weeks in middle school is have the students make their own word searches.

Make a table in Microsoft Word---I've been using 12 x 14---and number 1 through 12 on the bottom. Have students come up with a category---animals, sports, jobs, food, colors, fruit, countries, etc.---and then 12 words that fit the category. They put them in the blank squares, then fill in the rest with random letters. I made up a powerpoint to demonstrate. When every student is finished, collect them and randomly pass them out.

It's helpful if you have a book, textbook, or picture dictionary that you can show students who are having trouble. But it will last 40 to 45 minutes, and for the first time all year my most rambunctious classes were quiet, doing the work, and having fun.

[ddeubel]

I'd take a look at my lessons in a can # 66 Whiteboard Soccer. So easy to set up and do. Just draw a pitch on the board and play soccer for review!

Of course, with a computer there is BAAM which will usually run between 25-40 min.

DD
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[Goku]

[ddeubel]

[D-Jay]

Thanks everyone for all of your helpful responses! Sorry I can't PM because I don't have enough posts yet.

[PamPhi]

I play a agme called "Swaps"

Its a game that teaches sentences, they kids enjoy it.

You structure it with whatever question you need, but it needs to be a question with a variety of answers.

Example _ what will you do this summer.

I then print off 32 responses. Each kid gets one response.

The kids walk around the class grabbing a person at random and asking the question

"what will you do this summer

(kid reds the card) I will play badminton.....What about you

(Kid reads his card) I will eat an ice cream

Now that they have read it and the turn is over they SWAP the cards in their hand with the person and move on.

The kids get almost all 32 responses done by the end of the class.

every 4 minutes i ring a bell and they go back to their spot.

In a hat I have the 32 responses in a hat.

The kids scream the question " teacher what will you do this summer?" I pull an answer out of the hat and the studnets who has that answer gets a candy.

I pull 4 or 5 things a turn.

Its a very good sentence game

[WoBW]

I once had my elementary school classes undertake a 'project' to create a cartoon strip based on a recent story we'd read (or they can just make up a story if that works better).

In small groups they illustrate their story on A3 sized paper using colour pencils. The only rules are they must include some English dialogue in each frame of the cartoon, and the story must actually make some sense.

Kept them occupied for hours, the creative girls produced some beautiful looking cartoons.

[scorpiocandy]

This isn't a game but it was a good activity if you (and they) want a bit of chill time.

Word-building.

One envelope contains 5-10 sets of the full alpphabet. Individual letters like scrabble tiles but on paper. Students can be divided into pairs or small groups and each group gets one envelope. They have to make as many words as they can, working in a team.

It takes a bit of work from you the first time with the cutting up of all the letters but after that you're good to go.

It's a good review, it gets their competitive side going and takes up a good chunk of time. It can get messy too but my kids were always good about the clean-up.

And the best part is they get candy or something along those lines as a prize for building the most words. (I hate to single anyone out so everyone would get something but the winning team would get something different from the others.)