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Here's a quick spy game that I did with my kids. I got this game from one of the 6th grade lessons that someone put up a while back. It's a pretty flexible game. I've played versions of it with grades 4-6, and I've had lots of success each time.

RULES:
Each student will get one card. That card should be a secret.

The students will then walk around the room and try to find 3 other students with the same card by having the prompted conversation. (ex: "What do you want to do?" "I want to play soccer. What do you want to do?" "I want to play soccer.")

Students must stick to the script prompted by their picture, with the exception of the spy.

When there are a total of 4 students with the same card they will come to me and show me their cards. I will give each student a point/stamp/sticker/reward.

If a student with a "spy" card works his/her way into a group of 4 by the time that they show me their cards, then the spy will get double points/stamps/stickers/rewards. The rest of the group will get nothing.



In the end I played 3 rounds of the game (one for each textbook lesson). The whole thing took about 20-25 minutes for a class of 20-23 students.