Summer Madness

7/3/2013

As summer vacation approaches, my second year students will be saying good-bye to their student teacher, Isaac, and many of them will be embarking on an American adventure with our school's one month immersion program at Saint Michael's College in Vermont. It is difficult for students to concentrate on new studies with so many things happening! With this in mind, and to say good-bye to Isaac, we are going to have a game day on the last day of class. I decided to create a "Summer Madness" game that is based on the popular and active game "Cranium," for us to play as a class. I've played this with my loud and rowdy family at holidays and we always end up rolling around with laughter. The cards I created are meant to review vocabulary and language we've practiced in class. Students move around a basic board game of colored squares with each square representing a card category: "data head," "word worm," "creative cat," or "star performer" cards The data head cards ask students multiple choice or true-false questions, the word worms have spelling challenges, the creative cats drawing or sculpting tasks, and star performers are a bit like charades. Feel free to download and use these templates for your own "summer madness." There are twenty cards in each category, and they're meant to be printed on card stock, double sided with the matching category card front.