Fly Swatter game and others...

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Fly Swatter game and others...
By talgirl

I know it sounds weird but here goes...
Write vocab words all over the chalkboard (scaatered and arranged in no specific order). Divide the class into two teams. 1 person from each team gets a fly swatter. You read
the definition or clue to them and they race to the board. Whoever swats the correct word first gets a point for their team. You would have to make specific rules depending on your class, such as no contact/bodychecking each other, no running, etc. My kids loved playing this last year!

Another good review game is "Who/What am I?" The kids get divided into groups or partners,

depending on how many vocab words there are. I assigned each group a word and they had to come up with 4 good clues for that word and write them down on a sheet of paper. When everyone was finished each group reads their clues and the rest of the class has to guess the answer. My kids loved it because they tried to stump the audience by providing not so obvious clues. It made it so the class really had to know their stuff in order to participate.