Divide the class into 2 teams. The teams will take turns choosing TWO numbers. Click on the square to reveal the word beneath. If the two words are the same, then that team gets a point. If they are different then click on red circle to hide the word again. The game becomes more and more fun as it progresses because students start to remember where they saw the words. Download ready to use matching games and a blank template here.
Assign a word to the 4 corners of the classroom. Then, choose one student to come to the front and close their eyes. Then the other students have 5 seconds to move to one of the corners of the classroom. The students standing in the corner with assigned with that word are out, and must sit down. The game continues like this until one student is left.
That student is the winner, and can be the next student to come to the front and close their eyes. TIP: Many students moving around the class can be quite dangerous. For safety, instruct students not to run and make sure there are no bags, coats, books, etc, on the floor that the student can trip on. Printable board games are easy to prepare and a great way to get kids talking using the vocabulary from that lesson.
Download many printable board games and board game templates, and find detailed instructions on how to play them, here. Once your child learns a word the work has just begin. It will be forgotten if they stop using or hearing it. That is why practice is so important. Keep your Kinders using the words they have learned while having fun with new ones new ones.
Be intentional with your vocabulary activities. Keep the words alive by continually using them alongside the new ones. This will keep the word alive and give them a little boost of confidence as they find new ways to use it. How do you help your Kinders learn new words? What are your favorite vocabulary activies? Please leave a comment below. It is our goal to help busy teachers just like you to be the best teachers they can be through our classroom ideas, resources, and community. Join thousands of other teachers and stay on top of all things kindergarten.
Receive a FREE 46 page resource to get started! Shop here! Vocabulary Activities and Ideas For Kindergarten. Writing , Sentences , Vocabulary. Share on pinterest. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on email. We've got teaching ideas, free printables and worksheets for Kindergarten. This Post Works Well With. Add to cart. Sale Product on sale. Facebook Youtube Pinterest Shopping-cart. Join the List. Select options. To play, divide the classroom into four or five groups of four to five children.
Each member of the group should write a word on a piece of paper attached to the forehead of the member on their left without them knowing what word they got.
After this, one by one, students take turns asking yes or no questions example: Is my word a verb? This game works just like a regular memory card game. The only difference is that children will have to match words with their meanings, instead of two identical objects. Aside from practicing their memory skills, children will have to quickly recall the word when seeing the definition and remember it so they can match it once they find the appropriate word in the cards. To play this game, you can divide children into small groups, or let them play in partner-groups.
The player that matches most cards wins the game. For practicing English skills, you can buy word cards online. However, if you want to personalize the game and make it much more effective, you can make your own cards with words that children have recently learned in science, math, geography, history, and other subjects. Lightning rounds are super fun and adrenaline-packed games or contests where children, especially hyperactive ones, will get a lot of excitement and laughs.
This game is most suited for topics that children are well familiar with. After this, one player from each group comes forward and competes in defining most words in a specific time limit one or two minutes. The words can be drawn from a bowl, or as a teacher, you can pick the words, while the players try to define them. The player who succeeds in defining more words wins a point for their group.
This is a game that the whole classroom can enjoy, or you can divide students into two or three groups. Just like the classical and famous Jeopardy game, our vocabulary version is just as fun and challenging.
To play, draw a table on the whiteboard, with different categories as rows and the points as columns. The word cards should be taped on the board facing down. More points mean the words are harder to define. Alternatively, you can choose to make different answers for a different amount of points; one point for telling a synonym, two points for spelling a word, and three points for defining a word. The group with the most points wins. To play, you need to divide students into small groups or play in partner-groups.
Give each group a dice and a stack of word cards. Players roll the dice and draw a card. If they can correctly define the word if given a definition — to guess the word , they receive points according to the number on the rolled dice. If the answer is wrong, the student gets zero points in that round. Vocabulary checkers is much more stimulating, challenging, and exciting.
The spaces can be predetermined, with words of your choosing, or you could give students the opportunity to write the words themselves for the opponent player. The added challenge comes with the fact that a player can only move or occupy the square if they correctly define the written word in that square. Other than that, the rules are the same as a regular game of checkers. To play, you need to divide the classroom into two groups and assign a topic.
One member from each group has to come forward and describe a word or a phrase to its group. The words are given to the players by the opposite group. This game teaches children new words as well as their meaning, context and the relationship between words.
This game is great for teaching children to understand the context of words and how they relate to each other. Words do not live in isolation but work together. Children may have a good vocabulary of general words but are also able to start developing some theme-specific words that are more unusual in everyday language.
As they grow up and develop more interests they also learn the jargon related to their interests. This game is about finding the words to explain something.
The reason you should go first is to model how to use descriptive phrases without giving away what the object it. The younger your child, the simpler and more obvious the clues will be that she uses but as she gets older she will learn how to be more cryptic.
However, this is a game where you will see how quickly your child goes from giving very short, obvious clues to using language to describe the texture, colour, size, function, etc. The game I spy with my little eye is an old favourite that children love playing. It is a variation on the game above and also teaches children to use language descriptively. To vary this game, only give one set of descriptions and then let your child have as many guesses as necessary.
In the previous game the object was hidden, whereas in this one the object is in the room and therefore should eventually be spotted. You may want to add one or two last clues if she needs some assistance. The process of guessing and listing the many potential items in the room is also good for building vocabulary. In a previous game, children made a long list of words in a particular category.
This is not as easy as the previous games because it requires another level of thought. Because you are not telling your child what the category is, he has to first listen to all the words and find a common relationship between all but one of them.
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