Fun games for the classroom

Variation: Vary the speed of the clapping so children are either moving quickly or slowly. Allow students to not just walk, but tiptoe and skip. Funny games for teachers When to use games for Classroom Training: You can use games at the start of a training session to allow participants to become familiar with each other (the so-called ice-breakers), or during the session when you want to re-energize your participants.

This is another flashcard game and it works best with small groups. Place all the flashcards on the floor and have the children gather around them. Then call out the name of the flashcard and have the children ‘slam’ their hands onto the correct card. The child whose hand is at the bottom of the pile – and is, therefore, the fastest – wins! Get them to keep their hands on their heads until you call out a word, so they don’t hover over the pictures! Don’t forget to check out our ready made flashcards for you to use on games like this. 17 Fun Interactive Games For Students in 2023 Fun Games and Activities To Play in 5-Minutes with Vocabulary for Children in PreSchool, Nursery, Kindergarten, and International School Classrooms. Educational Resources Written, Tried and Tested by English Language Teachers Working With Students in Japan.© The Magic Crayons

Kids take out their whiteboards or some scratch paper and then I give them a topic (e.g. names of states, weather words, proper nouns…). Then they write down as many as they can in the time given. After a few minutes, I ask all the kids to stand if they wrote at least 5…10…15… until we find the child with the most answers. Then if there’s time, I have that child read the list to the class. Fun! 2. Around the Block If you’re anything like the teachers on the Teach Starter team, you love knowing the ins and outs of why something works in your classroom. There’s been a lot of research into learning through play and how to build the best classroom games for students, so this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Game: Divide your class into small groups and hand out an object/soft toy to each group. The person with the object in each group will start. You name a title or theme, e.g. prime numbers, and it is then a race against time for the student to give 5 correct responses, e.g. 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, before the item/soft toy has been passed around everyone in their small group and returned to them. EFL Vocabulary Games In this Monopoly-themed game, students will be exploring and sharing their feelings. There are 22 different feelings on the game board and there are different types of cards such as Chance (16) and Treasure Chest (16). Students try and earn gold coins. Directions included.