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[MollyBloom]

I have to plan one for grades 3-6, 50 students. We can use the whole school, inside and out. Class is 40 minutes long.

Any ideas for this? Of course I have to hand something in by the end of the day today.





Edit: time of class

[PamPhi]

Teach them "on, beside, under, over, in, near, between etc"

Around the school hide 20 numbers. Well not hide, some of them will be out in the open.

Give them a sheet of fill out.

"Where is the Number 1?
"It's__________________________"

[ekul]

To the students; "Your mission, should you choose to except it, is to take everything and anything that isn't nailed to the ground and bring it to the English classroom."

I suppose if that isn't learning enough you could add an extra line that says "Points only awarded if you can name the item".

I'm doing newspaper scavenger hunt, less messy :p

[br_owen]

i did one of these for my extra class and it the kids loved it.
Start with one clue that says soemthing like 'if you are hungry, this is a good place to go...', obviously leading them to the dining hall. Each clue leads to a different place in the school. I stuck up clues all over the school. Sometimes you can have a clue which leads them back to class, where they have to complete a wordsearch or something in order to collect the next clue from yourself (kills more time).
It was the most i'd ever prepared for a class (took about an hour walking around and taping up clues) but the kids loved it, and i found some new places in school that i didn't know existed...

[Katchafire]

The scavenger hunt for my kids (which I did last Summer) will be done in pairs - and each group will be given ONE object at a time to find. Instead of bringing it back to the classroom, they'll be taking photos of each item with their phones.
My clues involve things such as : Find something round, find something blue, something alive, something dead, something that rhymes with bone etc.
For the final 5 mins or so of class, the kids share their photos with each other. Usually the 'something alive' and 'something dead' photos are the most interesting.

[MollyBloom]

[Fishead soup]

A soldiers camo cap
A yogurt cart



Just joking- teach prepositions then choose several color memo cards. Each team is a different memo card. Paste the first memo cards on the board. this can lead them outside the room.

[schwa]

[Katchafire]

If it does rain ... as I think someone mentioned ... around the main building you might be stuck in if it does rain, stick various notecards with English phrases on .. and each group gets a different set of instructions on how to find it eg: (starting with your back to the English room door) turn right .. walk straight, turn right - go up the stairs - turn left, walk straight - look on/under/next to something green - something round - a clock etc.
Kids write the English phrase then return to you to find the next one. Send each group to a different phrase so they arent just following each others groups.
Good luck and yes - PLEASE no rain!!

G

EDIT - just read about the re-doing of floors in your main building. It must be floor season as my school is doing the same thing.
How about using the library then (if you have a big one) and adapt it to something similar as the Newspaper search. Perhaps give numbers off the spines of books and ask them to write one sentence from a given page .. or ... umm ... give each group a topic eg 'sun' and have them look thru books for a sentence about the sun.
Depends how big your library is of course - and how well you get on with the Librarian as she may not like 50 or so kids pulling books in and out of shelves! lol

[Straphanger]

Too late, but...

If you can get the whole staff involved...I can do this at my hakwon, but I don't know how it would work at a bigger hakwon or a PS.

1. A teacher with an older sister.
2. Something you can write with that is not a pen or pencil, and is not black, blue, red, or green (handphone photo)
3. Someone who can write your name in Hanja.
4. Someone who knows the name of 5 Korean soccer players (write down the names)
5. Someone who can write a math problem that they can solve, but you can't.
6. Seven capitals of countries in Africa.
7. Someone who looks more like their dad.
8. Someone who looks more like their mom.
9. The teacher who can lift you off the ground the highest using just their arms.
10. A student who can play the violin/piano/mouth organ, etc.

You get the idea. Use as many resources as you can get your hands on.

Oh, and the teachers can only speak English to the students.

[Lou Giconi]

These are all great ideas. One thing you may want to take into consideration if you are doing it outside is the heat and the humidity.

A few years ago I had an entire map designed out for a campus and all the work went to crappola due to the heat and the humidity. The kids were not happy campers at all!

[JBomb]

newspaper hunt is a great idea. Find sentences and words and whatever I am guessing. I could even do that with elementards! Thanks.