I've been working this the last couple of weeks and its been great, some games have been nailbiting down to the line epic finishes...it actually seems so obvious I don't know why I didn't do it before....
Basically this is a dice on the board game, (began as a variation of the 'oranges, apples onions game).
You need a dice, a white/black board, magnets work well and some good ideas.
Make a 5X5 grid on the board (bigger if you like)
With a 5X5 the top left corner is start, the bottom right is finish. In the middle square on the top row, I put a Roll 2x, in the top right corner I put a 'go back' and on the diagonal I put alternating 'go forwards' with 'go backs'. Basically you can fill up the grid with 'go back' 'go forward' 'change places' 'roll X' or whatever interests you as much as you like...snakes and ladders would also work, its just good to have enough things to send some teams back and mix things up.
Get kids in 5-6 teams, make them get team names, allocate a colour/number to each team. Making teams, choosing names and explaining the game usually takes about 15-20min with my middle school girls.
The Game.
Teams roll a dice, whatever number they get, they must do a particular task in order to roll again and progress (or not) on the board.
For example
Roll a 1. Students play pictionary (I give a word, students draw it for their team to guess the word)
2. Random quiz question
3. Students can ask me a question
4. 'How do you spell.....' I get my co teachers to ask this question and test the kids on a word they are supposed to have learnt this term
5. sing an english song (even if it's just ABC)
6. Hug each other (free hugs).
(I tried dancing as an option and found it was too much effort to get the kids to do, so I scraped it).
When my sister was here, I had
1. 'While you are in Korea you should...(eat kimchi, go to the jimjilbang)'
2 'Korea is great because......(we have beautiful mountains, kimchi etc)'
you could also have sentence starters like
'my favourite food is............
I like ____________
easy or as hard as you like
Then the team rolls again and i get everyone to ask 'move ......'team name'........ 'however many'......times please. I'm a politeness in the classroom fiend so I always try and get the kids to say please and thankyou as they pass the dice, request things....Its great when they get lots of move forwards, back and change places happening...
and this all takes up a full lesson easily, yay!
