Crossing the Great Divide

  • November 11, 2011
  • Sarah Biros


Community Level 3 – Comfortable

Materials: String or chalk

How To Play: Using string or chalk, create a center line in the
space. Starting in one, big line, players break into teams of 4 to 6.
Teams line up facing each other across the room or space. For example,
there could be 3 teams of 4 per side, each competing against a team on
the opposite side. Each player’s feet are touching the sides of the
adjacent players’ feet.

Cooperation

  • November 11, 2011
  • Sarah Biros


Community Level 3 – Comfortable


Materials: Construction paper; envelopes-one per student

Circle Dodgeball

  • November 10, 2011
  • Sarah Biros


Community Level 3 – Comfortable

Materials: Two playground balls, outdoor space

How to Play: Half the players go into the center of the circle.
The other half forms a circle around them. Give two playground balls to
the outside circle. Players on the outside throw the ball and the
players in the center are out when the ball touches them from the waist
down. The players who are “out” become “in” and switch places with the
player who hit them with the ball. This variation makes the game
fast-paced and continuous.

Charades

  • November 10, 2011
  • Sarah Biros


Community Level 3 – Comfortable

Materials: None

How To Play: Leader prepares a list of vocabulary words. One
student or a group of students acts out vocabulary words while the rest
of the class tries to guess which word is being acted out.

Boogalu

  • November 10, 2011
  • Sarah Biros


Community Level 3 – Comfortable

Materials: None

How To Play: Students repeatedly say the following chant and act out different characters each time.
Leader: “Let me see your boogalu”
Group: “What’s that you say?”
Leader: “I said, Let me see your Boogalu.”
Group: “What’s that you say?”
Leader: “I say Oo oo oo oo oo oo oo” (action and a rhythm)
Group: Repeats chant and actions and rhythm of the leader

Aroostasha

  • November 9, 2011
  • Sarah Biros


Community Level 3 – Comfortable

Materials: None

How to Play: Students stand in a circle with their hands clasped
in front of them, fingers interlaced. Begin the activity by
demonstrating the following chant and body movements.

Anatomy

  • November 9, 2011
  • Sarah Biros


Community Level 3 – Comfortable

Materials: None

How to Play:
Players stand in a circle with one person in the
middle. The center player moves in front of a classmate (her choice).

Once in front of the classmate she touches a part of her own body while
naming a different part. For example, the center player says, “This is my
knee!” as she touches her ear.

The player in the outside circle
reverses the part being named and touched. In this example, “This is my
ear!” as he touches his knee.

All Aboard

  • November 9, 2011
  • Sarah Biros


Community Level 3 – Comfortable

Materials: A 2’x2′ wooden or cardboard square

How To Play: Participants must see how they can all fit on a
platform (2′ x 2′ or other size) at one time. The group must have all
feet off the surrounding ground for 5 seconds. Players can be held up
with no feet touching the platform.

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