[danfur]

Heads down thumbs up, get everyone in the class sitting at their desks with their heads down and thumbs up on the desk. Choose 3 people to be on, they have to go round and put the thumbs down of one person each. When they are back at the front of the class get everyone to look and those who were caught to stand up and guess who put their thumbs down. If they guess right they swap, if not that person stays on.

Just a minute, get the children to count in their head to 60 and try to be as close to a minute as they can be. You time it and get the children to put their hands up when they think it's a minute, don't let them know who is right until everyone has their hands up.

It's hard with the younger ones though as they don't have the attention for some games. With Reception and Year 1 I would usually go for a story or song. If it's a longer stretch of time maybe have a reserve activity for them to do - draw a picture of their
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l bedroom etc
Either that or a circle time activity, even news time usually works.

I think there were some cooperative working
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s on here the other day like 21's out etc which are good too.