Classroom Games Serve Many Purposes. Here's How to Use Them!!
Classroom games are a necessity. Students want, love and need free time. You can even use them as a class reward.
Students need to socialize inside the class with their peers - not think or worry about their school work, their marks or work that needs to be completed.
Depending on the school and/or the school board, most teachers get some money ($100 or more) to spend on games and classroom activities. I always ask my students what games they wanted in their classroom.
Try not to choose classroom board games that have a lot of pieces (they'll get lost) or take too long to play. Clearly educational classroom games that are fun, require thinking and take only a short amount of time to play are the best.
If your school doesn't have a lot of money to spend on games or other classroom activities, try garage and rummage sales (make sure no pieces are missing).
Check out some of the deals at Amazon.com.
Have a look at the list below or search for what you want. If Amazon has it, great. Just click on it and get the details.
Click on the links below and read about several different types of classroom games that my students and I loved to play.
1. Educational games that are not only fun but are also excellent classroom review games. for example, learning math facts doesn't need to be boring. Read about some of my simple, and fun
classroom math games
that your students will love and have them asking you for more!
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2. Motivational and team building games. For example, what I call my
"Getting to Know You"
games that are a very enjoyable, and unstressful way of introducing teacher to students, students to teacher, and new students to each other.
I played these games with my students at the beginning of the school year so that I could learn my students' names and we could all learn a little bit more about each other.
3. Classroom party games
that can be played at various party occasions such as Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Easter,etc. as they occur throughout the school year. Another great source for team building and student motivation.
