Vocabulary – Four Letter Word
Divide class into two teams. Teams take turns alternately guessing the teacher’s hidden word. Teacher writes student responses on the board followed by a number to tell how many letters are the right letter in the right place. For example if teacher’s word is “bell” and a student says “best”, the teacher would write the word “best(2)”.The winner is the team to guess the correct word first.
Vocabulary – Seven Letter Scramble
Divide the class into two teams. Put on the board the seven scrambled letters from a seven letter word. Students form words using some or all of the letters. Words must be at least two letters long. Teacher records words given by each time. The score is determined by the total number of letters in the words provided by each team.
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Various Themes – Four Corners
Can be played with any theme. Label each corner. Students eliminated if in the corner chosen.
Visual Arts – Pictionary
Divide the class into two teams. One team faces one whiteboard. One faces another. Each team provides a volunteer to draw. The two players are given a word and go to their respective whiteboard. Teacher calls “Ready! Set! Draw!” The two players draw only (no words, numbers, symbols). Teams look only at their teammates drawing. Teams take turns guessing what their teammate is supposed to draw. Winner is the first team to guess correctly. Play several rounds to give drawing turns to all.
Movement Arts – Mirror Image
Partner up. One player is the leader. The other copies the leader. Encourage slow, deliberate, large movements. This can be a lead up to “Who is the Leader?”
Movement Arts – Who is the Leader?
Class forms a large circle. One student volunteers to leave the room and will try to tell who the leader is. Another student volunteers to be the leader. The “Guesser” is invited back into the room and stands in the center of the circle. Students on the circle will follow the movements of the leader. The leader needs to use slow, deliberate and big movements and change movements carefully and at the right times to avoid detection. Play several rounds.
Movement Arts – Art Gallery
One student is the “Sculptor” and the other is the “Statue”. The sculptor moves the statue’s parts or gives verbal instructions (no touch) to the statue to get it into a position. At the end of the sculpting time, the statue must remain perfectly still. Other students (sculptors) then tour the gallery looking at others’ statues. Switch roles and repeat.
Visual Arts – Drawing Ideas
Give out paper (white letter size). Use instructional video (see links or provide demo on whiteboard).
Students need pencil, eraser, and possibly colours.
Geometric Solids (3D) – Perspective and shading. Can draw complete or truncated. Draw a scene with multiple solids. Turn solids into objects.
Instructional Drawings – Earth’s layers, salmon stream, human body systems.
Season Drawings – Draw scene showing people, nature (weather), activities.
Nature – Plants – leaves, trees, flowers.
Drawing People – progression from simple stick to modified stick to realistic.
Cartooning
Optical Illusions
Portraits/Faces