What's on my head? Charades

Divide class into two teams.

I have paper hats with velcro & have attatched different verbs to them.

One student from each team comes to the stage and prepares to guess.

Students will ask "What are you doing?" and stage student will grab a hat

The group will act out the verb.

Stage student will guess, "I am flying?" "I am running?"

Students say yes! and the hat is added to a pile.

They will only get a new hat & word when group has asked, "What are you doing?"

...and it begins again.

When the all the hats have been acted out, we count hats and find out who is the winner.

The students really enjoy this game!

London Bridge Guessing game

the two kids acting as a bridge are blindfolded.

everyone sings or listens to the song, who is she? (to the tune deep & wide)

when the song ends or is stopped, the drawbridge copmes down and they capture someone. the blindfolded kids then ask questions

"How's the weather?"

"How old are you?"

"Are you okay?"

...and so on

when they think they know, they can guess, "He is Minsu!!!? then ask the whole group, who is he? "He is Minsu!"

I used this for the GEPIK lesson grade 4 lesson 5: Who is She?

But I think it can be used as a good review, too.

vocab & phrases could be changed depending on objective.

** can be a little messy getting kids set up, since everyone is getting out of chairs and moving around. make sure you have good control of this class before starting!

CHARADES-TELEPHONE

This game is played in small groups in front of classroom, and the onlooking groups participate, too.

One team comes to the front and lines up.

All but the one in the back of the line covers their eyes and waits for a tap on the shoulder.

• teacher reveals a flashcard picture. (example: apple)
• student #1 mimes apple to student #2, who turns around and taps #3's shoulder & mimes what he has seen. and on and on until last student.
• last student says out loud, "Would you like some/a ____?"
• if they're right, the class says, "Yes, Please!"
• if they're wrong, class says "No, thanks!" and then answers the appropriate response: "Would you like some/a ____?"
  

The students really seemed to enjoy this game. The entire class got to participate, and they loved seeing their classmates act silly trying to figure out what they were miming. I will DEFINITELY play this game again when vocabulary & key phrase make it a viable game!

P.S. my students are TERRIBLY AWFUL mimes! sometimes that made the outcome more hilarious! easy ones, hard ones here are some of my favorite ones:

Remembery*** very successful!

1) I show the students a picture with several items on it.
they can look at it for 30 seconds and try to remember as much as they can.

This example is from GEPIK lesson 5.9.4: Whose Boat is This?

2)then I turn it off and they write down as many as they can.
3) Students all stand up
4) ask a student to name one item
5) everyone who named that item can stay standing. if they do not have it written down, they must sit!
6) do this until you have a winner, or the whole list has been named.

(my classroom in in pods, so the winning table gets a team point. the winning students got a sticker)

The students really got into this game. regardless of how many they actually got, they all seemed to enjoy trying to get it right, and asked to play again. I expect I will used this game regularly. I want to see if doing more will improve their memory for vocabulary.

*after a while of playing this new game, I will comment again on it.

Morning/Afternoon/Evening

This is a version of rock-scissors-paper & red rover combined

morning beats afternoon
afternoon beats evening
evening beats morning

I use the motions from skinnamarinkydinkydink song. morning is a circle downward, afternoon at your belly, and evening is abote your head.

If you are the winner, try to grab your friends' hands before they pull them away
losers pull your hands away!if you are caught, then you go sit down at the winners' table

after the game, ask each table, "how old are you?"they will answer by the # of peoplelargest table gets to leave first!