games

lots and lots of games! (this is from the link Michelle sent us)

APPS students can use to practice spanish!! Follow THIS LINK from the __Creative Classroom__ Blog to see what kinds of apps are out there for our language learners!

This is a "game" created from blubbr: media type="custom" key="23036538" width="180" height="180" This one is called "ALMA"

Here is the Blubbr website: Blubbr video trivv games

**__Strip Bingo:__**
This game is thanks to Andrea on the moreTPRS list. The game is called “strip bingo” so it will have your students’ full attention! To play this game, you have students tear off a “strip” of paper. Then they make 5 boxes on the paper and write down one word or phrase in each box. You can then read a story or a list of phrases that have those words in them out loud to the students. For each phrase, the students have to ALL call out what the phrase means in English (or you call them out in English and they have to say them in the target language). The students can only rip off a word or phrase from their strip of paper if it’s the last word on one end of their paper. The first person to have all of their words called and ripped off wins. No prep and the kids love it!

__** El Bebe Malo: **__
__Bebé Malo__ is a counting game similar to “Hide the Thimble”

 –We have an ugly baby doll nicknamed “El Bebé Malo” (idea from Joe Nielson) in our class.  –A student leaves the room.  –Another students hides the Bebé Malo.  –First student reenters the room and tries to find the Bebé Malo.  –Other students in the room count chorally in Spanish–soft for far away, loud for nearby.  –We write the number it takes to find the Bebé on the board in the Bebé Malo Hall of Fame/Shame. –This can only be played for 10 minutes or so before it starts to get old. But if you use it sparingly, students will want to come back to it again and again–even in higher level classes, and that’s OK. –You may have to help the kids by counting aloud with them at first and by encouraging them with arm motions to count loud /soft to give the seeker proximity clues, but do not train them that YOU, the teacher, are doing all of the counting. You help them get going and encourage them, but they are doing the loud/soft counting, otherwise it will be too hard on your voice.