games and fillers??

[cazg777]

Hello all,

I was in a year 1 class on Friday and was given a good plan for the day as to what to teach. Everything went fine apart from the work didn't last them the allotted time, they always finished much quicker. for example, they had over an hour to pain some clay statue they had
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e and it literally took them 10 mins. As this was the case in all the lessons, i couldn't do my usual filler of a story, singing and clapping rhythms (these are my fail safes) as i had done all these, so I'm wondering if anyone has any good games that they pull out in these situations.

[smc533]

Take the name of the school and have them come up with as many words as they can using the letters - you can do this with names of famous people or pretty much any well known phrase or saying.

Draw a noughts and crosses grid and write an answer in each square (either a number or something from a topic they're working on, or general knowledge). Explain that the ONLY right answers to the quiz are in the grid. Then ask questions appropriate to the answers. You can have boys against girls or table v table or kids v teacher.


Hang man is another good one, but make it topic specific (so, if an art lesson, only arty things, etc.)

Sarah x

[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.

[pixiechick]

Heads down, thumbs up is always popular. I like 'Spotty Dog'. A child is 'on' and stands at the front facing away from the class. You choose a child to say 'spotty
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' in a silly voice. Then the child at the front turns round to face the class and has 3 goes to pick the child who said spotty
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. If the child picks the right child, then they have another go. If they don't, then the child who did the voice is on. This works best if there is a bit of space etween the child who is on and the other children so that it isn't too easy to pinpoint where the voice is coming from.
If you have quite a bit of time 'spare', read a story and then do an activity based on the story eg story board, role play, hotseating, wanted poster, changing parts of the story etc

[danfur]

Ah pixiechick I used to do that game but with the word "sausages". Same game though - they always really enjoy trying to do funny voices

[jack705]

Children are always happy and excited while they are asked to do something funny and when others adore them, we can involve them in games and can teach them using different methods, like asked them to recall famous names or countries names starting with different words, we just need to involve ourselves actively with them

[janeb]

Originally Posted by danfur
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Ah pixiechick I used to do that game but with the word "sausages". Same game though - they always really enjoy trying to do funny voices

I did the same game during a French lesson recently - we had been practising some phrases so used this game to reinforce them.
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[Cathryn]

thanks for the
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s here ... will be trying some of them out tomorrow!! First time with Reception.
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