Board and Classroom Games
Domino
Place all cards face-down on the table and mix them up. Each player selects 7 cards. Keep your cards in front of you but hidden from your opponents. The players decide who’s going to play first, second, third, etc. by throwing a lot. The first player-group chooses one of their 7 cards and puts it on the white board or on a desk.
After the first round, the player who won the previous round starts first. The next player-group must then place a matching domino card next to the first domino card. Then the next player must play a domino card that has either the word pronoun or a verb on it. Two cards that can match this first card are the following (but of course not the only ones). The players only place cards on the two edge points of the series of cards that has been formed on the board. If the next player however doesn’t have a matching Domino card, they must pick one from the cards on the table with face down. If the new card does not much, as well, the player must pass their turn onto the next player. The game ends when the first player finishes all the cards that they possess. |
Bingo
Markers or small Post-it notes
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Be a planet's firend
The class is divided in 2 – 6 groups depending on the number of the children. Each group stands for a player. First they decide the order of playing i.e. which group is going to play first, second, etc. Then they choose a pawn. Each group assigns roles to its members: one is going to lift the card, one is going to move the pawn.
All cards are placed in a pile, face down on a table. When its turn, each group lifts the first card from the pile and moves its pawn accordingly on the board. Then the card is placed under all other cards. |
What am I?
The participants select a card for the other participants and wear it on a crown. Each person tries to find out what the card on their head shows, by asking questions.
Etc “Am I an animal?”
“Am I something you can eat?”
They ask one question per round and whoever guesses their card first wins.
Etc “Am I an animal?”
“Am I something you can eat?”
They ask one question per round and whoever guesses their card first wins.
Dictionary Battles
The class is divided in two groups of four – the pink team and the green team.
In the middle of each group there is a table with two identical dictionaries and two pencils.
Each group has a set of cards with words to look for in the dictionary. The words are the same for both groups, but they were placed in different order. Some of the words are easy and some of the words are hard in order to build suspense.
Ready! Steady! Gooo!
The first player from each team takes the first card and looks for it in the dictionary. When the player finds the word they writes the page number on the card and runs back to sit down. The second player then runs to take the second card and continue the game.
The winner team is the team that finds all the words in the dictionary and the page numbers written on the cards is correct.
In the middle of each group there is a table with two identical dictionaries and two pencils.
Each group has a set of cards with words to look for in the dictionary. The words are the same for both groups, but they were placed in different order. Some of the words are easy and some of the words are hard in order to build suspense.
Ready! Steady! Gooo!
The first player from each team takes the first card and looks for it in the dictionary. When the player finds the word they writes the page number on the card and runs back to sit down. The second player then runs to take the second card and continue the game.
The winner team is the team that finds all the words in the dictionary and the page numbers written on the cards is correct.
Body parts-teaching vocabulary
The teacher distributes to pupils, word cards with the new and recycled words (for example head, shoulder, knees, toes, nose, mouth etc.) and asks them to label each other or the classroom puppet. The students do so by sticking the word cards on each other or the classroom puppet.
Matching activity
The teacher mixes up flashcards (or drawings on the board) with words and pupils match the words with the pictures. The matching activity can take the form of the “crazy match game”, where each time a pupil draws a line, that line should not touch any of the other lines on the board or they will lose. Each time a pupil matches a word with a flashcard or a drawing s/he also says the word.
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Safer internet
Game description / rules of the game: 2-6 players
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Who? What? Where?
Game description / rules of the game: The class is divided into three groups, every group is
given a set of blank cards of one colour, the first group have to think about jobs that people
do to help them grow and learn and write them on the cards, (one on each), then everyone
picks a card and presents it to the class, the second group have to think about verbs that
people doing the jobs presented do every day at work and write a verb on each card, the
third group have to think about the workplace of the jobs presented. Then the cards are
piled together in three different piles 1-jobs,2-verbs,3-workplaces. Each group sends a
reader who is asked to pick a card from each pile and form a sentence .E.g. Teachers teach
at school. If the sentence is correct then the group get a point, and if the sentence doesn’t
make any sense e.g. Teachers sing at the post office then there the group get no point. The
three groups take turns until everyone in the group reads and the winner is the group with
the highest score.
given a set of blank cards of one colour, the first group have to think about jobs that people
do to help them grow and learn and write them on the cards, (one on each), then everyone
picks a card and presents it to the class, the second group have to think about verbs that
people doing the jobs presented do every day at work and write a verb on each card, the
third group have to think about the workplace of the jobs presented. Then the cards are
piled together in three different piles 1-jobs,2-verbs,3-workplaces. Each group sends a
reader who is asked to pick a card from each pile and form a sentence .E.g. Teachers teach
at school. If the sentence is correct then the group get a point, and if the sentence doesn’t
make any sense e.g. Teachers sing at the post office then there the group get no point. The
three groups take turns until everyone in the group reads and the winner is the group with
the highest score.
Discover the fraction
Game’s description: Students receive worksheets with exercises in which they have to match the drawings with the given fractions. On the board students will identify which faction is subunitary, equi, or supraunitary. For each correctly-solved exercise, students will receive a reward.
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Recognize the planet
Game’s description:
Students select images with the planets in our Solar System that they describe and say a few things about them.The other schoolmates will have to guess the name of the planet.The student who will answer correctly will receive a balloon as a reward. The student who won’t answer correctly will have to color the balloon like that planet. |
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The Hanging
The history: Even if it has a scary name, this game is a traditional one and many of us loved to play it, both, at school and with friends outside. Usually it is played on a piece of paper, in pairs, a person thinks of a certain word and draws as many lines as the word has the letters . The person who tries to guess the word begins to pronounce one letter and if it occurs several times in the word the other person is obliged to write it how often it appears. If the person who guesses the word doesn’t correctly indicate the letters “The hanging" is prepared.
Material resources: laptops connected to the internet Game description : The children from 6th grade A are divided in two groups, and in the students from 6th grade B in four groups. The students of the first group of the 6th grade A ask the second group if they have the answer to the first question in “The hanging" game. The first group's students write down all the correct letters but also the wrong ones described by the second group. After the discovery of the word or the correct words the second group questions the first one and after the same model they write down all the correct letters but the wrong ones. Earn the group that has the most correct answers… |