Resources from The Magic CrayonsTime: 8-10 minutes
Receptive Language: various
Productive Language: various
Game Explanation: Two teams. Create a grid on the whiteboard with a random number from 1-6 in each square. The students compete to name flashcards, answer questions, build sentences, etc. The winner rolls a die and places a chip/writes or draws his team’s symbol on any of the corresponding squares on the whiteboard. The first team to get a predetermined number of squares in a row wins.
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Materials: ones own hands
Time: 10 minutes
Game Explanation: Practice the Hot Potato chant with the kids and demo in front of the class with several Students. Play rock, paper, scissors to see who goes first. The Winner puts their fist out, then you start chanting, “1 potato, 2 potato, 3 potato, 4!, 5 potato, 6 potato, 7 potato, more!” as you stack your fists on top of each other. Keep stacking your fists on top of each other until the stack is too high for one person to put their fist on top. Play the game as a group by first dancing around to some music. When the music stops the student form pairs and do the chant as outlined above. Play several rounds.
17. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
Time: 5-7 minutes
Receptive Language: instructions, numbers, circle
Productive Language: numbers
Game Explanation: Two teams. Write the numbers 1-20 on the whiteboard. Call out a number. The first student to circle the correct number on the whiteboard scores a point. This game can be adapted to fit the abilities of almost any class. Substitute letters, telephone numbers, simple words, etc.
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Materials: none
Time: 5 minutes
Receptive Language: instructions, numbers
Productive Language: numbers
Game Explanation: Students sit in a circle. Explain to the students that you will go around the circle, counting from one to twenty, and that they can say one, two, or three numbers at a time. Whoever is forced to say 20 loses.
Resources from The Magic CrayonsTime: 6 minutes
Receptive Language: instructions, numbers, flashcard vocab
Productive Language: flashcard vocab, numbers
Game Explanation: Divide the students into small groups. One student in each group holds a pile of flashcards, while another rolls a die and identifies the number in English. The student with the cards turns over that number of cards (while the other students count along in unison). The student who rolled the die must identify the last card to be turned over (or ALL of the cards, if you think they can handle it). If she can do so, she wins the card / scores a point.
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Materials: none
Time: 5 minutes
Receptive Language: instructions
Productive Language: alphabet, numbers
Game Explanation: Have the students sit in a line facing you. The first student on the far left jumps up, says ‘A!’ & sits down. The student next to her immediately stands up, shouts ‘B!’, sits down, & so on. Continue play until a student makes a mistake, then begin again. This game can also be played in teams, using numbers instead of the alphabet, etc.