“6 Great Learning Games to Fill Time,” by Laura Owen gives six games that any teacher could use to entertain the students for a couple of awkward minutes. Most of the cames can be done anywhere. They are games that the students will enjoy playing and want to play.
The first game that was listed was Buzz. This game helps students to learn their multiplication. All of the students start to count. The goal is to say buzz when you reach a multiple of the target number or a number with the target number in it. For example if six was a target number you would buzz at 6, 12. 16, 18, 24, and so on. If a student does not say buzz on the correct number, they are out of the game. Games two and three are very similar to each other. They are brain teasers. Game 4 was 20 questions. This game has been around for a long time and can be played almost anywhere. The game split is a spelling game. This is a more complicated game and is advised not to be played with younger students. After reading the instructions several times, I still am not sure what is going on. The last game mentioned is call Sad Truth. This came focuses on grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation mistakes. I thought that these game could be a lot of fun. Some of the instructions were a little hard to understand. Although, I think that There are ways to adapt all of these games to fit an FCS classroom. In another article that I was reading it also mentioned to do pictionary which I also thought was a great idea to learn vocab. Owen, L. (n.d.). 6 Great Learning Games to Fill Time. Retrieved April 06, 2018, from http://teaching.monster.com/education/articles/7958-6-great-learning-games-to-fill-time
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