Korean Job Discussion Forums

[manlyboy]

'Tis the season, folks.

My Winter camp went swimmingly last year largely because of a number of generously donated intellectual properties from people right here on Dave's. Here's what I did:

1. Twister (I bought cardboard squares and made the whole room a giant twister board)
2. Making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches followed by banana splits.
3. Making balloon animals.
4. Making Checkers sets and learning how to play.
5. Snowball fights (writing stuff on slips of paper; balling them up; snowball fighting; then racing to retrieve specific papers)

This year I will have mostly the same students, so I need to come up with something entirely new.

Please donate generously so I can steal your ideas and pass them off as my own.

[peppermint]

I'm gonna have the kids play store with all the flashcards from the year- they assign prices, and then can buy and sell stuff. ( sounds a bit lame, but it went really well last year)

Ever-reliable, popsicle stick boxes/ houses etc

[Grotto]

skip the snowball fights....unless you have found a place online to deliver snow...I managed to scrape up one decent snowball last year and that was pretty much all the snow off of one car!

[riley]

I don't know how well this could work for you. I'm about to try it out with my students here. It is a high level activity with lots of preparation but if you pm me with your email, I'll try to send copies of my work.
I created worksheets where the students are in groups and have to pretend to run a country of their own. They create the name and pick who does what job in the country. They are given a random group of resources which allows their country to manufacture some things and will determine how much money each country makes a day. They also have to decide on how much money to spend on military and other things. Each day they are given a problem for their country. They have to solve it and write down their solution and why they do that. I then grade it and decide on the result of the solution. I don't know how well it will work as it might be too much for them.

[ejmlab]

I think the "snowballs" in this case are balled up pieces of paper with expressions, question etc. written on them. It's a game I've sometimes used in classes as an opening day warmer with personal questions.

Cheers

[manlyboy]

I'll just give this a bump as my schedule is due for submission this week. Thanks for the contributions thus far. Riley, that sounds like some interesting stuff. Unfortunately, my camp will be 4th graders with mostly low level skills, so I'll be unable to steal that one from you this Winter.

[deessell]

I always incorporate a scavenger hunt. But instead of collecting the items they need to take a photo with their camera phone. Give them a list of things they need to take a photograph.......give them things outside, then you can put your feet up and wait for them to return. I find my students are very good with the clues, so challenge them.

Small teams are better. Also give them a prep about being sneaky ie. Don't let other teams see you taking the photo.