Why Play Games? Blog 3

Task 1:  Make a list [at least 5] of Drama games and record the skills required. 10 will get a CARR award.{See the slide show} Here is an example.

Game	skills
Tequila	Listening, moving in unison and canon [chorus]; floor pattern, gesture, eye-contact

Task 2: This should be finished for homework by next Tuesday.

Recall or Research a Drama Game activity [not done in class]

Present the game on a google doc which you share with me, ck@hornby.school.nz

1. Write the title & instructions
2. Make layout interesting [font, pictures, steps]
3. What are the skills this game teaches?

Here is an example:

Ship Ahoy!

A classic game - useful to develop listening skills and spatial awareness.

How Do I Play It?

The teacher first explains that we are about to go on a ship and as crew there are lots of jobs that we need to do.

Students start by forming a line (one behind the other) directly in front of the teacher to enter ship.

The teacher then shouts a command and the children have to perform the activity associated with that command and go to various areas of the ‘ship’.

Commands include:

• Captains coming – salute and stand still for inspection
• Boom crossing – students duck
• Scrub the deck – students all scrub the floor
• Climb the rigging – all pretend to climb up sail
• Port – go left and load the cannons
• Starboard – go right and look out
• Bow - go to the front and all walk the plank
• Stern - go to the back and all pull in the anchor

To remember where you’re going - 'port' has four letters as has 'left'!

SKILLS

• Pirate vocabulary
• Listening
• Miming
• Ensemble – moving with a group