There is always a lot of sharing of brain breaks in the CI community. I began seriously implementing them about two years ago, and man, are they great! Fun, essential, and community-building. If you haven't visited La Maestra Loca's blog to see her amazing collection, do that now. (Well, as soon as your done reading this post!) One of my students' favorites is a game we call Qui a volé les biscuits de la boîte à biscuits? This is one that can run a little longer than others, but I still love to do it once or twice a month. (It's in the Mafia/Bad Unicorn vein.)
The basic idea is that students sit in a circle, close their eyes, and place their hands behind their backs. I walk around the circle and place a biscuit (a little fake cookie that a friend baked for me) in the hands of one student; the cookie should be small enough for students to cup it in their clasped hands. I then tell them (in French) to put their hands in front and open their eyes. They then sing the chorus of the song, and students start to guess who they think stole the cookie. On the the left is the slide I show to introduce the song. Click here for a PDF of the Notebook file I use to introduce the vocab in the song. The text of the song in English is
Class: Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar? Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar? Students raise their hands and I choose a someone to name a suspect: Class: _______ stole the cookies from the cookie jar. (The accused's name fills in the blank.) ________ stole the cookies from the cookie jar. Student accused: Who, me? Class: Yes, you! Student accused says either: Yes, me or Not me! If the student isn't guilty, the class says, So, who? We keep playing until the guilty student is found, or I decide we need to stop, in which case students put their hands behind their backs, close their eyes, and I retake the cookie to play again another time (that student will get the cookie a different time). Because I teach younger kids, I have to keep track of who has had the cookie, since everything has to be "fair!" Let me know if you try this, and what you think! Bisous.
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20/8/2019 09:19:40
I really love eating biscuits, they are my favorite snack. If you ask me, there is nothing like biscuits, they are absolutely the best. I know that there are people who will disagree with me, but that is okay. If you think about it, people disagree with just about everything in life, what makes me happy, is the fact that we are free to do so. I love biscuits and I do not really care what other people think of them.
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Abi Ibarra
15/1/2020 15:36:16
Hmmm, don't know what the previous comment was about, BUT...
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AuthorAllison Litten, the 2019 VFLA TOY, teaches French at the Marion Cross School, a public PreK-6 school in Norwich, Vermont. This is her twenty-third year teaching, and twentieth at Marion Cross. Archives
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