Simple classroom game for 14+ students. My class has about 35.
Simple rules:
1) Have 7 students stand at the front of the room with cards that say the day's of the week. (I will add some from the Let's Try 2 book).
2) Have all the sitting kids put their heads down on their desk and thumbs up.
3) The 7 at the front will sneek around the room and pick any one student by tapping their thumb.
4) The selected student will put their thumb down or in their fist.
5) When all 7 students have chosen another student, they stand at the front of the room and the teacher can say "heads up 7 up/Good morning"
6) The chosen students will stand at their desk. They have one guess for which of the 7 chose them. To guess, they must say the key phrase "It's weekday" (based on the card the student is holding at the front of the room.
7) If they guess correctly, they replace the student that chose them. If they guess wrong they must sit down.
8) Rinse and repeat from step 2
Perfect! Just in time for the last hour of this unit!!
This is such a good idea of how to make Heads Up into a vocab practice game! I'm going to play with my 4th graders this week for the last class on this unit :) Thank you!
I have been trying to find a way to incorporate vocab practice into this game and this is perfect. Thank you for the great idea!
Great idea, thank you for sharing! I'm curious, is the PowerPoint locked intentionally? I am unable to edit anything on that file.
@raymo1, I just downloaded it from here to a new computer and was able to edit it? I'm sorry it's not working on yours! It should editable.
Omg, I used to play this game when I was in elementary school. I forgot all about it haha. But this looks like a great way, especially for weekdays, to have a fun game with little prep. Can't wait to try it out. Thanks!
I wanted to give a quick thank you for this, as I formatted it to work for my 5th grade as well with OWS! By using "I study ___ with __" and having the students hold subject cards, they fill in the "with __" so it's about the student holding it. Thank you for this activity!!