5 Games to Kill Time

Working at an English Summer Camp where we had to create lessons on the spur of the moment, I occasionally needed to find fun games to kill time, while waiting for the next session to begin.

Word haiku

Teacher writes a word on the white board (i.e. United States)

You can create teams or pass out a blank sheet of paper and have the students do this individually. Have them create as many words as they can with the word given.  The team or person with the most words wins.

*  The great thing about this game is that it will keep them quiet and busy on their own for a while.

2 Fun Games for Teaching Adults

Yay! My teaching whiteboard is looking neater and neater.

In honor of it being my last class, I'm posting two more activities I've used with my adult students!

Ice Breaker Games for Adult Introductions (and my first Adult English class!)

First day of my Parent's English class. I was nervous and upset--

a. My co-teacher had given me the class textbook (I ordered) that very morning, which meant...

b. I only had a small window of time after lunch to prepare a 1st Day of Class lesson plan for a 100 minute class! Yup. Unfortunately, my recycled About Me Introduction ppt presentation was not going to take a full 100 minutes.

c. I discovered during lunch that the textbooks hadn't arrived and that the parents would be without them, so...

d. I had to make handout copies of the pages I would teach and ...

c. It was at 2PM when I came to that realization (that, not having textbooks stuff) after it

ESL Summer Camp: from the Superhero Factory (Part II)

Last day at Joonang Elementary Summer English Camp and it's been an honor to work with such an organized school and brilliant students! Today is the big talent show, however. Will my little Superheroes be able to pull of their self-created Superhero show? Can they be as good on the stage as they are in the classroom? (Click on the title bar to see this original post on my GRRRL Traveler site)

Why I think Speed Games are great for my slow students

I'm a big fan of speed games, especially when it comes to using them as class warmups on a Monday morning.

For me, there's nothing better than a surprise attack that will pop open my elementary students' crusty eyes and get their little hearts and adrenaline racing with a game, which forces them to think on their toes. 

ESL Games: Spelling Board Games

(Gr 6, Ln 8: What will you do this summer?)

What will you do this summer? Video choreography

 So an EPIK friend, Diane, posted a video on her Facebook profile of her kids rocking out to this song. Hell, I didn't know the guy and the lesson videos existed-- would have saved me some choreography time for some of my other classes!

This is the video for this lesson. The guy is kinda silly but fun. My kids were reluctant to rock out to it

Lesson Plans & Games: Teaching Jobs and Occupations

(My Father is a Pilot:   6th gr Lesson 7)

1. People Song (video) by Peter Weatherall

I play this for the first time then hand out a piece of paper to each team. I ask them to list all the

Games & Lesson Plans: Learning Descriptions by playing Detective

(Gr 5, Lesson Plans | Games)

Sorry I've been slacking on the lesson uploads. Due to the fact my co-teacher and I have just performed an open class with this lesson has jogged my "must upload lesson plans" memory.

This lesson download on 'Descriptions' should be fun.

There are many ways you have fun playing party games which get students to learn and create

Teaching "Months of the Year" (6th gr: Lesson 4.3)

We had our open/DMOE class evaluation today.  There were two NETs with two DMOE evaluators sitting in our class. I love evaluations. Yes, they're nerve wracking and my co-teacher gets so stressed out with them... But I love them. 

I love performing.

 

Here's a summary of our lesson plan on "Months of the Year":

We played  "12 Months (are in a year) Song" youTube video as the class entered and got seated.

Then we sang "The Month Song" along with the CD-Rom disk (* this song is kind of soggy, but hey...)

 

Class activity: 3 games

 

Ball Toss- When is your birthday?

Student 1: When is your birthday? (chooses someone to toss it to & that person must answer the question)
Student 2: It's June...  When is your birthday? (chooses someone to toss it to & that person must answer