CHOOSING AN "IT"

VOCABULARY

Make a circle

Put your fist in

Put your foot in

You're "IT"

Listen up!

CHOOSING "IT" RHYMES

Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,

catch a tiger by its toe,

it it hollers let him go,

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe

Cocacola, Pepsicola

Cocacola, pepsicola,

cocacola, pepsicola, split!

One potato

One potato, two potatoes,

three potatoes, four,

five potatoes, six potatoes,

seven potatoes, more!

Blue shoe

Blue shoe, blue shoe.

How old are you?

1, 2, 3, etc

WHAT TIME IS IT, MR. WOLF?

VOCABULARY

One end

The other end

Shout

Walk forward

Back

Step

Replay

Catch

To be safe

Become

HOW TO PLAY

1. Choose Mr Wolf, the rest are rabbits .

2. Rabbits stand at one end and Mr wolf at the other with his back to them.

3. Rabbits shout:"What time is it, Mr Wolf?"

4. Mr Wolf replies: "It's .......... o'clock"

5. They must walk forward that number of steps.

6. Mr Wolf shouts: " It's dinnertime!". They run away.

7. Then he/she tries to catch (tag) them.

8. If a rabbit is tagged (caught), he becomes a wolf.

FARMER, FARMER

VOCABULARY

stand in a line

middle

river

only if

run across

win

Examples of conditions:

-Yes, but only if you're wearing red shorts.

-Yes , but only if you're wearing a yellow hat.

HOW TO PLAY

1. "IT" stands in the middle of a river (marked on the playground).

2. The other players stand in a line along the river bank.

3. Players shout: "Farmer, farmer, can we cross your river?"

4. The farmer says: "Yes, but only if ... + a condition".

5. The players who meet this condition cross to the other side.

6. The other players try to run across without getting caught by "it".

7. If a player is caught, they join "it" as a farmer.

HOT POTATO

VOCABULARY

Count down

Hold

Out!

Pass

Second time

On one knee

Third time

HOW TO PLAY

 1. Players stand in a circle.

2. They pass a ball from player to player around the circle. When

they want, any player can shout "Hot Potato, Hot Potato" and count down from 10 to zero.

  3. The player holding the ball at zero "goes down on one knee”.

4. If a player is holding the ball at zero a second time, he "sits down".

5. If a player is holding the ball at zero a third time, he "is out".

     6. The game is over when there are no players left.

DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE

VOCABULARY

Outside

Tap

Walk

Jump

Catch

HOW TO PLAY

1.All the players sit in a circle, facing inward.

2. It walks outside the circle, tapping each player in turn and saying "Duck" for each player.

3. When "IT" wants, he/she will tap a player and instead of saying "Duck", he/she will call the player "Goose".

4. The child chosen as "Goose" must jump up and try to catch "IT", while "It" runs round the circle to get to the Goose's place.

5. If "IT" gets the Goose's place before being tagged, the Goose becomes the new "IT" if not, the game continuous with the first "It".

HEY, MR. CROCODILE

VOCABULARY

Rhyme

Sit

Along

Come

Hungry

Catch

Snap

Chase

Capture

Become

HOW TO PLAY

1."IT" is Mr. Crocodile and the rest are monkeys.

2.Monkeys sing the rhyme up to "can´t catch me".

3. When Mr. crocodile says SNAP, he chases the monkeys and

captures one.

4. That monkey becomes the next crocodile.

All the little monkeys are sitting in a tree

Along comes the crocodile very quietly.

´Hey, Mr. Crocodile, you can´t catch me!´

Ah no? SNAP!

STUCK IN THE MUD

VOCABULARY

Stand still

foot

left

back

step

throw

shout

run away

catch

freeze

move

become

SUGGESTIONS

You can use the vocabulary that you want to use with your students(numbers, letters, animals,etc.)

HOW TO PLAY

1."IT" has the ball.

2. He/she assigns a number to each player.

3. They stand in a circle around him with their left foot as near as

possible to IT´s left foot.

4. Players step back 3 steps.

5. "IT" throws the ball up and shouts a number and they run away,

including IT.

6. The player who is named catches the ball and shouts FREEZE!

7. All the players must stop and stand still.

8. The player who catches the ball throws it at another one.

9. This player must not move his feet but can move his body

10. If the ball touches the other player, he becomes IT.

QUEENIE, QUEENIE

Hide

Throw the ball

Back

Guess

Right

Wrong

VOCABULARY

HOW TO PLAY

1. Queenie stands with his/her back to the players.

2. He/she throws a ball over her/his shoulder.

3. The other players run to get the ball.

4. The player who gets the ball hides it behind his/her back.

5. Queenie turns round to face the players who chant:

6. Queenie must try to guess which player has the ball. If right, the player who has the ball becomes Queenie; if wrong, Queenie must throw again.

Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball?