CLASSROOM GAMES Kioupkioli Maria
Sariggoli Evaggelia
7th Primary School of Giannitsa, Greece
BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS
This game focuses on beginning and ending letters of words. The kids are divided in two groups. The first player writes a word, and the player of the other group must quickly write a word that begins with its final letter. For example: Englishospitalollipopoultryellowindowsupermarket‌‌. Group 1: English (7 points) Group 1: lollipop (8 points) Group 1:yellow (6 points)
Group 2: hospital (8 points) Group 2: poultry (7 points) Group 2:windows(7 points)
If a kid can't think of a word or gets the word wrong, they lose their turn. Each group earns as many points as the letters of the word they write. The group that earns 100 points first is the winner.
TIC
TAC TOE
CROSSES)
(NOUGHTS
AND
It’s an easy activity to finish the last few minutes of the class. While reinforcing some of the things the students learnt , give this fun tic tac toe game a try. This is really fun. Use it to do revision of the vocabulary you have studied. You draw a large noughts & crosses table on the whiteboard . You divide the class in two groups, you can ask them to choose a name for each group. It is really a competition when you divide the class in boys and girls. Boys are a Cross and girls a circle. The first group has to choose one square , if they create a correct sentence with the word chosen, you draw their sign in the square. To get a point they have to complete three consecutive squares with their sign.
The words on the table can be… From the dictation of the day dream
island
funny
brush
live
sometimes
ship wake up Revision words cave Part of speech (verbs, adjectives, adverbs….)
sleep
drive
be
make
lose
choose
speak
take
bring
usually
sometimes
always
rarely
seldom
finally
never often immediately
BEAT
THE
CLOCK
You divide the class in two groups .Each group has the alphabet flashcards (one group the capital and the other the small letters).You time the students as they race to put alphabet flashcards in order. You have them try again having the other set of letters to see if they can beat the others really fast.
JEOPARDY Make a jeopardy grid on the white board as follows: Food
Sports
Animals
Schools
POINTS
A kid brings to mind the letters of the alphabet. A kid from the other team says STOP and the two teams start writing words beginning with the letter chosen. They earn 10 points for every word they find or 5 points for the words they find if these are the same with the other team. Different categories can be chosen (animals-things-foodschool-verbs-adjectives-adverbs-nouns etc‌)
SIMON SAYS You can play Simon Says as a review using body parts, classroom objects, etc., or with actions. E.g. "Simon says touch your toes" = Students touch their toes. "Touch your eyes" = Students shouldn't move. When a student makes a mistake, he/she must sit out until the next round.
ALPHABET
RELAY
You divide the class in two groups .Each group has the alphabet flashcards (one group the capital and the other the small letters).Both teams have to write a word chosen by you very quickly. The winner is the team which manages to write the word the quickest most of the times.
BINGO Bingo can be used with any topic. Picture Bingo sheets (suitable for the younger students).
Word Bingo sheets (months, numbers, hobbies, colours ‌‌.) January blue
purple May
green
August
red October
yellow
March
February
Watching Riding TV my bike Collecting Taking cards photos Playing with dolls
Listening to music
brown
The winner is the first student to cross out all the numbers/words etc. on the sheet.
BOARD
GAMES
Snakes and ladders (revising numbers up to 100)
Christmas board games
THE
CATERPILLAR
BOARD GAME
You bring in the classroom 10 cardboards of different colours and you make a caterpillar as in the picture.
You divide the class in 2 teams. The winner will be the first team to go through all the colours and say them correctly. In order to move from one colour to the next the players will have to play “rock, paper, scissors” with you. If you win, the team that plays with you doesn’t proceed and remains at the same square. Then it’s the other team’s turn. One of its students plays “rock, paper, scissors” with you. If you lose and the player wins then he/she proceeds to say the colour of the next square. In case he/she doesn’t remember the colour, the team doesn’t proceed and stays at the same square until it’s their turn again.
This game can be played at any time to revise vocabulary. You can use flashcards or make your own drawings.
GUESS
THE WORD
The class is divided in two groups. Each group has to describe or explain the meaning of a word and the other group has to find the word. It is an excellent way to revise words when a unit is completed especially with advanced students. e.g. ‘’a person who is traveling in an bus, train, airplane, one who is not the driver or the pilot”. The answer should be ….. “passenger”