This year I hit gold with a great new way to play games with my students. I call it the Board Game...because, you know, it's on the board.
If you get the hamster you can ride it to my house (complete with William Tell Overture sound effects). The spiders go to the spider web. If you get the angry teacher at the end, you have to sit in the baby chair at the beginning. If you land on the toilet you get flushed out to the sea, where a hungry shark is waiting (accompanied by the Jaws theme). Butterflies go to the flower. The egg goes to the chicken and the fried chicken goes there, too. The ghost goes to the graveyard. I forget now what the candy does. Every time we play it's different!
All the crazy drawings below it are from when I taught my kindergarten class basic prepositions. It's way more fun to talk about dinosaurs and pigs wearing butterfly necklaces than to make boring sentences like "I sit next to so-and-so," right? Yeah, I thought so, too.
My 6-year-old class really enjoys calling everything they see a poop-something (poop-fish, poop-pizza, poop-zombie (either poop-monster or poop-zombie is visible in this picture), poop-mountain, etc.). So that's Poop Mountain at the bottom there, and I drew on a trail so we can practice spelling our phonics word "hike."
Sometimes teaching can be so much fun!
If you get the hamster you can ride it to my house (complete with William Tell Overture sound effects). The spiders go to the spider web. If you get the angry teacher at the end, you have to sit in the baby chair at the beginning. If you land on the toilet you get flushed out to the sea, where a hungry shark is waiting (accompanied by the Jaws theme). Butterflies go to the flower. The egg goes to the chicken and the fried chicken goes there, too. The ghost goes to the graveyard. I forget now what the candy does. Every time we play it's different!
All the crazy drawings below it are from when I taught my kindergarten class basic prepositions. It's way more fun to talk about dinosaurs and pigs wearing butterfly necklaces than to make boring sentences like "I sit next to so-and-so," right? Yeah, I thought so, too.
My 6-year-old class really enjoys calling everything they see a poop-something (poop-fish, poop-pizza, poop-zombie (either poop-monster or poop-zombie is visible in this picture), poop-mountain, etc.). So that's Poop Mountain at the bottom there, and I drew on a trail so we can practice spelling our phonics word "hike."
Sometimes teaching can be so much fun!
