GAME: Fruitbasket Upset

--large/meduim groups
This game is the same regardless of how you use it, with placecards or without. It’s great to use for word-symbol identifiction and can be used with a group of mixed skills to get different results.
great for a hot day when you need the kids to get up and move around.

Here’s the idea: With all the students sitting in a circle, and one student in the middle, the middle student will shout out a word, or description. example) “It is an eraser!” the kids sitting on an eraser card must stand up, change seats. the student in the middle will try to steal their seat.

another example, to make it harder is, “It is red!,” “It can write!” “It is in the classroom!”

I always try to make as many kids as possible stand up at one time. in the classroom usually gets EVERYONE.

You can use it for any kind of objective from vocabulary/spelling.... (Long a, capital B) to conversation (“My name is Susan and I like to swim!” (I’m wearing stripes!”).

Students must pay attention to what their signs on their chairs say, as they’re always changing seats. or they must listen to see if the statement is true for them.

***Don’t take a lot of time to make the cards. I draw on post-its, the kids love to see me drawing in class! also it gives the kids who finish paperwork quickly something to do while waiting for the slower students.