I am submitting the assignment for my team members as well: Lucia Mutz, Antonio Mayornick and Andrea Haeussler
Let’s Play
Age Group
Lucia Mutz: Ten 2nd graders
Antonio Mayornick: Grade 6 (11-12 year olds)
Andrea Haeussler: Middle School 6th, 7th & 8th Grade
Angelique Vives: Yearbook Class 9th, 11th & 12th Graders
Games played by Lucia, Andrea & Angelique
123, ABC
Students sit in a circle. The teacher or the started starts counting with 1 and passes it to the right. The next person passes 2, then the next one 3, and so on. When the student reaches 20, the next one starts with 1. Once the counting has been established, the teacher or started passes the ABC to the other side (opposite to where the numbers were sent). And the same process happens.
This is a spoon
Similar to the 123, ABC game. The teacher or starter starts the round going to the right (or left) passing a spoon and saying: “This is a spoon”. The person next to them says “A what?” Teacher responds: “A Spoon”. Studnet says “Oh, a spoon” and passes it to the next person, following the same dialogue. After about 2 or 3, the started passes the fork to the other side and follows the same dialogue.
Categories
Students stand in a circle. A category is selected. For example, countries. Everyone must say a topic from the category, in this case, a country. Rules: they can’t repeat the countries, they have to say it fast (no more than 3 seconds to think) and they have to be correct. If any of the rules are broken, they must sit out.
Connections
A person starts by saying a word, any word. The next person has to say a word that connects with the last word said. So if the first word was clouds, the next one can be sky. Then, the following person must connect to the last word said, so sky (not clouds). And so on. Rules: they can’t repeat the words, they have to say it fast (no more than 3 seconds to think) and the words have to connect and make sense. If someone makes a mistake, they must sit out.
Game played by Antonio Mayornick
Pictoword: Grade 6 (11-12 year olds)
Students read a series of pictures that combine to create a word. The series of pictures can be very simple and direct or the teacher can make it more challenging by making each syllable a different picture. The difficulty can also be increased by choosing pictures that don’t sound exactly like the word students are trying to figure out. A very simple example would be a picture of a stick of butter plus a picture of a fly. This word would be butterfly. A more difficult approach would be:
Students can play on teams or individually, the first person or team to say the correct word gets a point. If you’re writing the words on dry erase boards, teachers can have spelling count to earn the point.
The pictoword game sounds so fun!
I love the games you guys chose to evaluate and I think I’ll try to incorporate them in our class meetings.
I think Lucia has a ton of good games to play with students. It seems like a nice icebreaker activity. In Korea, we have a counting game 3, 6, 9 (Three, six, and nine) in which players count off from 1 in ascending order. The only rule to remember is that any instance of the numbers 3, 6 or 9 must be replaced by a clap. It’s fun and creative, because people unconsciously clap on the multiples of 3, not the numbers that end with 3, 6, or 9. Very easy to mess up.