Working With Others Activities

[janeb]

I was asked to plan some "Wor
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With Others" activities for a supply day today. It went really well so I thought it would be useful to make a list of
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s for future occasions - I was wondering if anyone else had any
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s.

These are my
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s so far...

Silent Robots - one child is robot with eyes closed. Partner must direct them around the classroom without using words. Have a few moments to decide on their signals - e.g. touch to left shoulder means turn left...hand on head means stop...hand on centre of back means walk forward...

Draw what I say - partners sit back to back. One child describes how to draw a simple object (house, car, bike, face...) without naming it. Partner tries to draw the object by carefully listening to instructions.

Bench challenge - rearranging group of children (according to height, age, alphabet...) without stepping off of the bench.

Titanic
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(ooh, I've always wanted to use that smiley!)- children work in groups to escape from the sin
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ship. Start behind a line and may only use 2 lifeboats (hula-hoops) to get whole of team from ship to the shore. Lifeboats cannot be thrown. This could also be adapted with other equipment - e.g. get across the 'river' using a bench, mat and a hoop only.

Mystery clapper /Wink murderer
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- class sit in a circle, one child is the 'detective' (who sits in the middle of the circle) and one other joins the rest but is the Mystery Clapper/Wink Murderer. The detective must find out who is changing the actions (clapping, tapping heads, touching noses etc) or 'killing classmates with a
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'.

Can anyone add to the list?

[Footiegirl]

Thats excellent Jane! Some really good
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s. Cant think of any but will have a think! x

[danfur]

During my NQT year we had a PE person come in and do things like this. One of them was getting a group of children 5 or 6 and getting them to stand in a circle holding hands. You hook a hula hoop onto one of their joined arms (obviously by unjoining it first, lol) and they have to figure out how to get the hoop around the circle and back to the first person by wor
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together and climbing through it.

Another one I would only do if a) I trust the class and b)the mats were light enough was similar to one of your
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s where the class are in groups of 4/5/6 and have two mats that are rafts. They have to use the mats to get from one side to the other side of the hall without stepping off so by passing one mat over their heads carefully. I was a bit dubious about this because I was worried about knoc
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each other over with the mats but it worked when the PE person did it. I personally think doing it with hoops would be safer!!

Last one was a bit like musical chairs, put loads of hoops out on the floor of the hall and get the children to dance about them. When the music stops you have to get in a hoop, keep ta
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hoops away, encouraging the children to get into hoops and stay in by keeping hold of each other and helping.

I probably know others but I can't think of them now.

[Amanda]

"21"

Children stand in a cirlce
Start counting from 1 up to 21, each person saying the next number(s)
You can either say 1 number in a row, 2 consecutive numbers or 3 consecutive numbers.
The person who says "21" sits down and we
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t again.
It really gets the children thin
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ahead and puts smile on every ones face.

EG 1, 234, 56, 7, 8, 91011, 121214, 15 ....21

(PS first post in this forum - Hello every one & thanks for all ur tips)

[janeb]

Thanks Amanda - that sounds like a great activity.
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Welcome to the forum
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[Amanda]

Games for kids (google it) has lots of good
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s (I can't post links yet). The printables are great too.

[danfur]

I used to call that game 21's out but it is a fantastic game. My class used to try and get tactical to get specific people out. I've never taught a class who haven't enjoyed it

[audrey]

I was given an
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that I used during a lesson (as part of the interview process). Chn sit in a circle and you
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t counting (depending on their age) you can do it in mulitples of 3s etc the legs need to be stretched out in front of them and each leg is counted and lifted at the same time. Examle 1, 2, and each time they reach 3, 6, 9 etc child on that number tucks 1 leg under them-it continous around until chn have both legs tucked under and cannot participate. The winner is whoever is left! Quite a fun game and the interview panel loved it.

Another one that my class love is unlucky 13. Everyone in a circle standing and counting upwards and whoever the number 13 falls on is out and sits down-this continues until 1 person is standing. Great fun and great bribery tecnique for behaviour.

[janeb]

Originally Posted by Amanda
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Games for kids (google it) has lots of good
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s (I can't post links yet). The printables are great too.

Can you let me know what the website is actually called - I googled "games for kids" but it obviously came up with LOADS of options!
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Thanks

[Amanda]

Doh - I can't find it either now and this computer is bloc
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most sites. When I find it and post links, I'll update it for you!

A nice
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I've just read is ma
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paper chains! As a reward the children can add another link onto a paper chain and the winning team is the one with the longest chain. Not sure how this would work as a supply, but I liked the
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.