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The “Fun Way to Independence” Book of Games

Polish Games

BOOGIE - BOOGIE

Put your right hand forward

Put your right hand back

Put your right hand forward

And wave it!

Ref: Because the boogie, boogie, boogie,

You have to go round, round, round

And clap your hands one, two, three

Boogie, boogie, ahoj! (3x)

Put your left hand forward

Put your left hand back

Put your left hand foward

And wave it!

Ref: Because the boogie, boogie, boogie,

Put your right leg foward

Put your right leg backwards

Put your right leg foward

And wave it!

Ref: Because the boogie, boogie, boogie (repeat)…

BOOGIE - BOOGIE

SNEEZING ELEPHANT

Divide group into three sub-groups. Each sub-group gets a different password:

• 1 PIK

• 2 KARO

• 3 Joanna

At the signal, all three groups at the same time shout loudly their password.

SHARK - fun with a parachute

• Two children hide under a parachute - they are "sharks".

The rest sit on the edge of a parachute holding it at shoulder height with both hands, with legs hide under a parachute.

• Another two children walk around a parachute – they are called the defenders.

• "Sharks" have to grab people that sit on the edge of the parachute and pull them under it. Defenders can prevent them by running to the person and hold strong.

• When „sharks” succeed in pulling a child under the parachute, even half way, then pulled child becomes another „shark

HEAD, SHOULDERS, KNEES

Sports is a good thing Fun for you and me Put your hands up, foward and to the side Leap fowards, jump upwards Head, shoulders, knees, heels Knees, heels, knees, heels Head, shoulders, knees, heels Eyes, ears, mouth, nose. Head, shoulders, knees, heels Knees, heels, knees, heels Head, shoulders, knees, heels Eyes, ears, mouth, nose.

Head- point at head with both hands

Shoulders – point at shoulders with both hands

Knees - point at knees with both hands Heels - point at heels with both hands Eyes - point at eyes with both hands Ears - point at ears with both hands Lips - point at lips with both hands Nose - point at nose with both hands

HEAD, SHOULDERS, KNEES ...

CHOCOLATE

Props need to play: hat, scarf, gloves, plate, knife and fork, chocolate, die

The Game: Participants stand in a row one behind the other, turn throwing the dice, who rolls a six, he must wear a scarf, gloves and hat, and so wearing, knife and fork eats chocolate. When the next person rolls a six, wears a scarf, gloves and hat and dressed like that, knife and fork eats chocolate, until the next person rolls a six.

WINDING

• Chairs arrayed on the outside in a circle with one less than the people in the sport.

• The rhythm of the melody go on about chairs.

• When you tune to break all occupy space on the chairs.

• A person who has not had time to sit on a chair is out taking one chair.

• Are strengthening wheel chair.

• Repeat until the winner.

Welcome

1 We say "five" and in the same time we hit the hands.

2 We say "turtle" and in the same time we hit our fists.

3 We say "sausage" and we touch the forefingers.

4 We say "bird" and holding our thumbs we moved hand fingers.

Greek Games

MUSICAL CHAIRS

Children create a circle going around and around the chairs as long as music is playing. The chairs are a less than the kids. Once the music stops the children must catch up to sit in a chair. The child would not have time to sit, leaves the game. Every time a child is not sitting, pull out a chair until we have two children and one chair. The child will manage to stay until the end, is the winner.

In a tree with branches, the child try to stick a leaf on a branch. Other children help directing with verbal instructions, such as up-down, left-right.

The tree of Spring

The bazaar

Aims:

• To perceive and concentrate its attention

• To keep its attention for definite time

• To recognize and imitate animal cries

Play with colours

Aims:

• To appoint its position in the space

• To perform musical and dancing movements in srace

• To understand the rhythm

• To recognize and name the colours

Roll the ball

Aims:

• Το understand the rhythm

• To perform rhythmic movements

• To coordinate its movements

• Eye-hand coordination

• To learn the meaning of ‘quickly-late’

Romanian Games

Let’s dance brother

Rules for playing

• Number of players: up to 10

• A leader

• All the players are standing in a circle and they are listening and following the leader’s directions.

Let’s dance , brother, And hold our hands Chorus: Tra-la-la, la-la-la This is not a hard work Tra-la-la, la-la-la Let’s all spin at your right

With the foot trap-trap-trap, With the hands clap-clap-clap Chorus: Tra-la-la, la-la-la This is not a hard work Tra-la-la, la-la-la Let’s all spin at your right

With your head tic-tic-tic, With your finger pic-pic-pic Chorus: Tra-la-la, la-la-la This is not a hard work Tra-la-la, la-la-la Let’s all spin at your right

Oh, but you`re dancing really nice, Thank you, I am glad ! Chorus: Tra-la-la, la-la-la This is not a hard work Tra-la-la, la-la-la Let’s all spin at your right

PAY GOOD ATTENTION! Rules for palying Number of players : up to 6 The players are standing in the circle.They are listening , watching and following the leader`s directions .The song is rythmical and adapted by needs.

Pay Good Attention!

Rules for playing:

• Number of players: up to 6

• The players are standing in the circle. They are listening, watching and following the leader’s directions. The song is rhythmical and adapted by needs.

•Pay good attention Straight on your feets ! All eyes on me Arms at your chest 1,2,3 – 1,2,3 1,2,3 – 1,2,3 Like this children

Pay good attention Like we learned All eyes on me Arms wide open 1,2,3 – 1,2,3 1,2,3 – 1,2,3 Like this children

Pay good attention As I told you All eyes on me Arms up 1,2,3 – 1,2,3 1,2,3 – 1,2,3 Like this children

Pay good attention As I told you All eyes on me Let’s walk quietly 1,2,3 – 1,2,3 Like this children.

Stonebridge

Rules of playing:

• Up to 10 palyers (5 pairs)

• The players ar standing in string, in pairs with the hands up united as a roof. They start to sing the first two verses with hands up and feet beats.The next verses, one side of the „bridge„ pass under the hands up and forme another „bridge„.

Stonebridge was destroyed

The water came and took it.

We`ll do another down the shore

More durable and beautiful.

The crown is round

Rules for playing: Number of players: up to ten They are moving in a circle, hand in hand. One player has covered the eyes with a scarf.The players are singing the first 3 verses moving around and stops . At the 2 nd verses the covered eyes player is stopping and sit down next to a sitting players from the „crown„. There is a dialogue between those two untill the covered eyes player guesses the gender and the name of his/her mate. The play is making untill every pupil were covered eyes.

The crown is round, Round is the moon, Beautiful is the girl I love.

-You`re sitting on what? -On a little coffer.

-Do you want to change it? - Yes, I do, with a girl / boy! - What`s her/his name? .....Maria / David

The farmer`s on the field

Rules for playing:

• Number of players: more than 8

• The players are standing in a circle and singing the first verses. A player named „the farmer„ is picked from the others.Then „the farmer„ choose his „wife„ and go around the circle.„The wife„ choose „a child„....untill all the players are

choose.

The Farmer`s on the field

The Farmer`s on the field

Iha, my darling girl

The Farmer`s on the field.

He has a good wife

He has a good wife

Iha, my darling girl

He has a good wife

The wife has a good child ,

The wife has a good child

Iha, my darling girl !

The wife has a good child.

The child has a good nany, The child has a good nany Iha, my darling girl ! The child has a good nany .

The nany has a cat,

The nany has a cat


The nany has a cat.

The cat is catching mice,

The cat is catching mice


The cat is catching mice.

The mice are eating cheese,

The mice are eating cheese


The mice are eating cheese .

The cheese is made by shepherds ,

The cheese is made by shepherds


The cheese is made by shepherds.

Turkish Games

Benefits: •Colors can be learned or overlearned •Raises child’s perception level and speed of perception • Visual focus and memory •If played like a competition, develops child’s social relationships •It’s a good way for kinaesthatics to learn Activity ideas: •They can say the socks’ colours while they are hanging them so you can see whether they learned or not. •Or they can play it just to have fun and practise colours at the end of the lesson. •You can choose two sts and they can compete each other. The fastest is the winner.

Benefits: • shapes can be learned or practised, rememorized • promote teamwork and inspire cooperation when played with a team • develops motor skills

Activity ideas: • you can increase or reduce the number of shapes according to the sts’ level • you can create two groups and they can compete each other. They will put the shapes into the correct boxes. The quickest is the winner. • If you have a song about shapes, you can play it while they are competing.

Lyrics of Song: One little finger one little finger one little finger Tap tap tap Point to the ceiling Point to the floor Put it on your head One little finger one little finger one little finger Tap tap tap Point to the ceiling Point to the floor Put it on your nose…

Benefits: •Body parts (head, nose, mouth, eyes, ears…) can be learned or practised •They have fun while learning Activity ideas: • you can add some more body parts to the song according to the sts’ level • you can direct sts by saying “sing it faster, sing it slower, sing happily, sing sadly” etc. So it can be like a drama and they can learn some feelings, too. • you can use it at the beginning of a lesson to warm sts up or at the end to practise what you learned.

Benefits: • develops motor skills • colours can be practised • can be used to motivate students when they are bored • a great way to finish the day

How to play: Students make a circle and one is in the middle of the circle with a ball in his/her hand. S/he says one of the sts’ name and toss the ball. While the others are running away, the student who is called holds the ball and says “istop”. The others stop and S/he says a colour. While the others are running to find that colour, it tries to chase the one who couldn’t find the colour. When everybody find the colour, the game starts over.

How to play: A number of students make a circle and sit on the ground. The student that is “it” goes around the outside of the circle while others are singing the song: Yağ satarım bal satarım Ustam ölmüş ben satarım Ustamın kürkü sarıdır Satsam on beş liradır Zambak zumbak dön arkana iyi bak Zambak zumbak dön arkana iyi bak… It drops the handerchief behind one of the other players. The student whom the handkerchief was dropped behind picks the handkerchief and chases after the student. The first one sit on the empty spot wins. The one who loses will be “it” next. The game starts over.

English Games

The train ride

Aims: • Encourage the students to predict what will happen and

talk about the scenery, use as many objects of reference as possible-sheep puppet, if not available material and a picture to reinforce the animal.

• Use Flash cards and pictures for reinforcement. • Ask the students to draw pictures to show their favourite

part of the journey. • Use sand and water spray when they are nearing the

beach. • Ask the students to make a train using chairs, they can take

it in turn to be the train driver. • Use the resource packs to reinforce learning.

The Train Ride

We’re off on a journey, out of the town

What shall I see, what shall I see

Sheep running off

Sheep running off

And Cows laying down

That’s what I see, that’s what I see

Over the meadow

Up on the hill

A mare and her foal standing perfectly still

There is a farm down a bumpy road

A shiny red tractor, pulling its load

Here in my seat, my lunch on my knee

A ticket collector smiling at me

Into the tunnel, scary and black

My face in a mirror, staring back

After the tunnel when we come out

A gaggle of geese, strutting about

Over the treetops, high in the sky

A giant balloon, sailing by

Listen the engine is slowing down

A market square

A seaside town

There is the lighthouse

The sand

The sea

Here is the station

Who shall I see?

There is my Grandmother, welcoming me

Welcoming me!

Animal Boogie

• Use tone of voice and gesture to ask students to come to the jungle if they dare.

• Use movement to show shaking here and there and if available use puppets as objects of reference. If object not available make animals and cover with tactile material –fur for the bear and feathers for the bird etc. Allow students to interact and also to copy movements.

• Ask students how they think the animal should move and also ask the students to identify the animals.

• You could also use sounds, bird song, stomping for the elephant, roaring for the leopard.

• Make up a dance to go with shake, shake, boogie, oogie, oogie.

Jungle Boogie

Down in the jungle come if you dare, What can you see shaking here and there

With a shaky shake here and a shaky shake there, What’s that creature shaking here and there?

It’s a bear! She goes shake, shake, boogie, woogie, oogie!

Down in the jungle where nobody sees, What can you see swinging through the trees?

With a swingy swing here and a swingy swing there what’s that creature swinging through the trees?

It’s a monkey! He goes swing, swing, boogie, woogie, oogie!

Down in the jungle in the midday heat, What can you see stomping it’s feet?

It’s an elephant! She goes stomp, stomp, boogie, woogie, oogie!

Down in the jungle where the trees grow high, What can you see flying in the sky?

It’s a bird! He goes flap, flap, boogie, woogie, oogie!

Down in the jungle where the leaves lie deep, What can you see learning how to leap?

It’s a leopard! She goes leap, leap, boogie, woogie, oogie!

Down in the jungle where there’s danger all around, What can you see slithering on the ground?

It’s a snake! He goes slither, slither, boogie, woogie, oogie!

Down in the jungle where the stars are shining bright, Who can you see swaying left and right

We are! We go sway, sway, boogie, woogie, oogie!

I Know an old Lady

Who swallowed a fly

I don’t know why she swallowed a fly

Perhaps she’ll die!

I know an old Lady who swallowed a spider

That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly

I know an old Lady who swallowed a bird

How absurd she swallowed a bird

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider

I Know an old Lady who swallowed a cat

Fancy that! She swallowed a cat

She swallowed the cat to catch the bird

I know an old Lady who swallowed a dog

What a hog she swallowed a dog

She swallowed the dog to catch the cat

I know an old Lady who swallowed a goat

Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat

She swallowed the goat to catch the dog

She swallowed the dog to catch the cat

I know an old Lady who swallowed a horse

She’s dead –of course!

Hokey-Cokey

• Language Focus -Parts of the body (Leg, arms, knees, shoulders, fingers)

• Hokey-Cokey-Ask students to follow the instructions and mirror actions, enabling them to distinguish left and right and movements such as clapping and turning around.

The instruction set goes as follows:

You put your [left arm] in, Your [left arm] out: In, out, in, out. You shake it all about. You do the hokey cokey, And you turn around. That's what it's all about! On "You do the hokey cokey", each participant joins their right and left hands at the fingertips to make a chevron and rocks the chevron from side to side. After that the participants separately, but in time with the others, turn around (usually clockwise when viewed from above – novices may go in the opposite direction to the main group, but this adds more hilarity to this joyous, novelty dance). The hands are either still joined together, or moved as in a jogging motion – dependent on local tradition or individual choice. Each instruction set is followed by a chorus, entirely different from other parts of the world. There is either a caller, within or outside the group, or the instructions are called by the whole group – which can add to confusion and is laughed off as part of the dance's charm and amusement. Whoa, hokey cokey Whoa, hokey cokey Whoa, hokey cokey Knees bent arms stretch, Ra! ra! ra! The first three lines of this chorus are sometimes rendered 'Whoa, hokey cokey with the 'whoa' lasting only two beats instead of three. For this chorus all participants stand in a circle and hold hands: on each "Whoa" they raise their joined hands in the air and run in toward the centre of the circle, and on "…the hokey cokey" they run backwards out again. This instruction and chorus are repeated for the other limb, then for the upper right, then upper left arm. Either the upper or lower limbs may start first, and either left or right, depending on local tradition, or by random choice on the night. On the penultimate line they bend knees then stretch arms, as indicated, and on "Rah! rah! rah!" they either clap in time or raise arms above their heads and push upwards in time. Sometimes each subsequent verse and chorus is a little faster and louder, with the ultimate aim of making people chaotically run into each other in gleeful abandon. There is a final instruction set with "you put your whole self in, etc", cramming the centre of the dance floor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_(insignia)

Put your left leg in

Put your right leg out

In, out, in, out

Shake it all about

Do the Hokey-Cokey

And you turn around

That’s what it’s all about

Oh! Oh! The Hokey-Cokey!

Knees bent

Arms stretch

Clap, Clap, Clap

Put 5 fingers in

Pull 5 fingers out

In, out,

Shake it all about

Do the Hokey-Cokey

And you turn around

Knees bent

Arms stretch

Clap, Clap, Clap

Put your right shoulder in

Pull your right shoulder out

In, out

Shake it all about

Do the Hokey-Cokey

And you turn around

Knees bent

Arms stretch

Clap, Clap, Clap

Head, shoulders, knees and toes

Language Focus • Parts of the body (head, shoulders, knees, toes, eyes, ears, mouth, nose) • Head Shoulders Knees & Toes Lyrics and Actions ♫ (Spoken) Head. [Point to your head.] Shoulders. [Point to your shoulders.] Knees. [Point to your knees.] Toes. [Point to your toes.] (Repeat) Eyes. [Point to your eyes.] Ears. [Point to your ears.] Mouth. [Point to your mouth.] Nose. [Point to your nose.] Head. Shoulders. Knees. Toes. (Singing) Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, knees and toes. Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, knees and toes. And eyes and ears and mouth and nose. Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, knees and toes. ♫

Classroom Benefits • This simple version of Head Shoulders Knees & Toes begins

by first saying each of the body parts clearly and leaving room for the children to repeat as they touch/point to each part. When we begin singing in the second verse the children are able to better understand the linking of sounds and how words blend together, and they can generalize that skill to other listening activities.

Activity Ideas • This is great for a warm up song to use at the start of a

lesson, or play it anytime you need a short break. • Give each student a stuffed animal or doll and have them

point to their parts of the body as they sing the song.

Knees and toes

And eyes

And ears

And mouth

And nose

Knees and toes

Have fun!!!

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