Activity Categories: Academic Activities

Community Level 1 – Acquainted

Materials: Paper or note cards, pencils

How To Play: Partner the players. Players brainstorm a list of
words with four to six letters (in a category works well). Each
partnership chooses a word. They then create a sentence by using each
letter in their word as a beginning letter for the words.
For example: BEAR Better eat and run!
Each partner pair shares its sentence with the whole group. You can
continue a few more times with other words from the brainstormed list.

Community Level 1 – Aquainted

Materials: None

How To Play: The leader chooses a current topic of study. A player begins by saying, “I am going (name an activity relevant to the topic) and I will be looking for (name specific examples relevant to the activity/topic)“.
The next player names her example and the previous players’ examples.
Play continues until all players have had a chance to speak.

Community Level 1 – Acquainted

Materials: Notecards

How To Play: Working in groups, the leader provides players with a
topic. Players then think of specific examples of the topic and
privately record their examples on an index card. Within each group,
players take turns asking questions of each group member, trying to
discover each others’ topic examples. When players have asked 10
questions, the group has three chances to guess the example.

Examples: