Fun and Easy Activity
Rika Matoba
| GRADE LEVEL: | JHS 2nd and 3rd |
| SKILLS: | Writing and Drawing |
| TIME: | 30 minutes or more |
| MATERIALS: | Half vertical sheet of A4 paper and pencil |
| OBJECTIVES: | To practice adjectives and nouns |
| | To learn how to think and write quickly |
PROCEDURE:
1. Split the class in groups of 5 or 6 students, putting their desks together. Then pass out the half sheets to each student.
2. Explanation part- Tell the students to fold the sheets into the number of students there are in the group. For example, if there are 5 students in one group, then that group must fold the half sheet into 5 parts in vertical form.
3. Then, everyone must write any adjective and noun in the first box. For example, Student A would write “bad dog” (Make sure that they don’t show anyone on the team what they wrote). Next, they must pass their sheets to the person on the left. So now, Student A passes his paper to Student B. Student B reads “bad dog” and has to draw a picture of a “bad dog”. Next, Student B passes the sheet to Student C, and now he has to write an adjective and a noun of the picture that he sees WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE FIRST BOX. SO HAVE THE STUDENTS KEEP FOLDING THE PAPER SO THEY ONLY SEE ONE BOX ABOVE. If Student C can’t figure out what the picture is (which is the fun part) then he would write something like “big cat”. Then, Student C passes the sheet to Student D, who draws a picture of a big cat, and so on. At the very end, Student A gets back his sheet and sees whether the original word pair and the last word pair have matched, or how different the pictures and words came out to be.
4. Have the students do a practice round first and then do about 2-3 more rounds. The kids will get the hang of it after the first round. The end result is always a burst of laughter especially if the original word pair is completely different from the last few pictures or word pairs. I had one student where she wrote an adjective word plus one teachers name like “funny Mr. Hayato”, and then at the end a fellow group member wrote “fat baby” due to some confusing pictures in the middle section of the sheet. (hahahah! no offense to the teacher)
NOTES:
So basically have a FUN and ENJOYABLE time with this game!! I’ve always had great results, especially with 3rd grade JHS students. But it will work well too for 2nd graders if they know their adjectives and nouns (which we hope they’d know by now).
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