And most of all-have fun! Cooperation Hoopsĭescription of game: In this highly energetic, loud game, the class works together to squeeze as many classmates as possible into a few hula hoops. Adapt as needed for your students and physical space. The games that follow are excerpted from the book. All the games support development of social skills. Each game has detailed, clear instructions, as well as helpful hints for the teachers. Playing games encourages children to move outside their usual circle of friends, challenge themselves, grow.ģ6 Games Kids Love to Play offers K–4 teachers a wealth of games, from quiet to noisy, brainteasers to tag games. Playing games can build community and if a game is carefully chosen, taught, modeled, and monitored, it can reinforce in children the important qualities of cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control. But in addition to giving children a chance to burn off physical energy, to laugh, and to let loose, play provides an opportunity to learn and practice a wide array of physical, cognitive, and social skills. They remembered what was most important to them. They spoke of the games in general and of specific memories like kicking the ball over the school house roof into the hands of the other team. Person after person after person-teenager to old-ager-spoke not of the classroom but of the playground. graduates of the old school were invited back to reminisce.

In the introduction to the recently published 36 Games Kids Love to Play is this account of an opening celebration for a new elementary school: FebruCategories: Energizers / Energizers & Activities / Recessĭo you remember the playground on a bright spring day, flinging off your coat in a mad dash for the monkey bars or choosing up teams for a fast game of dodgeball? For many of us, these memories of the places and games we played as children are among our most vivid.

Classroom games for kindergarten