Pizza Race
Required: Dice
Icons:
Dice: Roll again
+5,10,15,20: Add points to the team
Switch: Switch the team's points or Switch one player from each team (student that rolled chooses)
11 Q: Game
Spelling Bee: Game
Hang Man: Game
Art: Game
Each team has a playing piece. In the picture there is a blue playing piece and a yellow playing piece. Each team also has a pizza circle that is in the middle of the board game. One pizza is yellow and the other pizza is blue for the correlating teams. Students roll the dice to move their playing pieces. After they roll the student has the choice of which direction to move their playing piece (as in left or right, OR up or down) so that they have 2 choices of where to land. The point of the game is to land on the "Pizza Game Squares". Once a team lands on the pizza squares they play a game to try and win the slice of pizza. If the team wins the game they are awarded the slice (red, purple, blue, or yellow pizza slice for the 4 different colored games) The teacher then can shade in the color they won into their pizza on the board. At the end of class the team with more pizza slices is the winner, OR if they get all 4 different pizza slices they win 50 points.
Games:
11 Q: This is 11 questions. The team that lands on this space has 11 questions (Or an appropriate amount of questions for the age level) to figure out what category of thing the teacher is thinking about. I have been using animals for my lower level classes. As an example, I was thinking of a snake, My students asked, the Yes or No questions.... Can it fly? no, Is it bigger than you? no Does it eat meat? yes, Does it have legs? no Is it a snake? Yes That team then won the 11Q purple pizza slice.
As I only allowed 11 questions, I would expand on my answers more than just saying yes or no to give them a better idea of where to go with their questions and also to push their listening skills.
*If students were too slow to ask a question I would count down from 5 and if I got to 0 the team would lose one question.
*Any questions that were not said correctly have the class repeat the questions so its a learning experience
Spelling Bee: This game I played team vs. team. If the team that landed on the pizza square won they were awarded the pizza slice, If they didn't win then no one got a pizza slice. Alternating teams, ask students to spell words at their level. If spelled correctly they stay in the spelling bee, if incorrect they are out and sit down. The last person standing is the winner.
Hang Man: The team that lands on this space plays a game of hangman. I use a simple grammatical sentence as the answer. If the team chooses a letter that is not in the sentence I draw a body part. (Head, body, 2 legs, 2 arms) If I draw the full body (6 parts) before they figure out the answer they lose and don't get the pizza slice.
Art: The team that lands on this plays a game of pictionary. I have the student that rolled the dice go outside the classroom with me to tell him/ her what to draw. The student then has 90 seconds to draw it on the board and have his team guess what it is. If they can guess within 90 seconds they have won and are awarded the art pizza slice.
*This game worked well with older classes (8-15). Depending on how quickly the game is moving you can have just one team roll the dice, or both teams roll the dice. Kids seemed to like this game because they had a choice of where to go on the board game, some teams just tried to rack up lots of points and steal points or players from the other team... Other teams liked to go after the pizza slices. By the end of the game, the points and players have switched quite a bit so it really comes down to who has pizza at the end of class and who is currently on that team to win.
Icons:
Dice: Roll again
+5,10,15,20: Add points to the team
Switch: Switch the team's points or Switch one player from each team (student that rolled chooses)
11 Q: Game
Spelling Bee: Game
Hang Man: Game
Art: Game
Each team has a playing piece. In the picture there is a blue playing piece and a yellow playing piece. Each team also has a pizza circle that is in the middle of the board game. One pizza is yellow and the other pizza is blue for the correlating teams. Students roll the dice to move their playing pieces. After they roll the student has the choice of which direction to move their playing piece (as in left or right, OR up or down) so that they have 2 choices of where to land. The point of the game is to land on the "Pizza Game Squares". Once a team lands on the pizza squares they play a game to try and win the slice of pizza. If the team wins the game they are awarded the slice (red, purple, blue, or yellow pizza slice for the 4 different colored games) The teacher then can shade in the color they won into their pizza on the board. At the end of class the team with more pizza slices is the winner, OR if they get all 4 different pizza slices they win 50 points.
Games:
11 Q: This is 11 questions. The team that lands on this space has 11 questions (Or an appropriate amount of questions for the age level) to figure out what category of thing the teacher is thinking about. I have been using animals for my lower level classes. As an example, I was thinking of a snake, My students asked, the Yes or No questions.... Can it fly? no, Is it bigger than you? no Does it eat meat? yes, Does it have legs? no Is it a snake? Yes That team then won the 11Q purple pizza slice.
As I only allowed 11 questions, I would expand on my answers more than just saying yes or no to give them a better idea of where to go with their questions and also to push their listening skills.
*If students were too slow to ask a question I would count down from 5 and if I got to 0 the team would lose one question.
*Any questions that were not said correctly have the class repeat the questions so its a learning experience
Spelling Bee: This game I played team vs. team. If the team that landed on the pizza square won they were awarded the pizza slice, If they didn't win then no one got a pizza slice. Alternating teams, ask students to spell words at their level. If spelled correctly they stay in the spelling bee, if incorrect they are out and sit down. The last person standing is the winner.
Hang Man: The team that lands on this space plays a game of hangman. I use a simple grammatical sentence as the answer. If the team chooses a letter that is not in the sentence I draw a body part. (Head, body, 2 legs, 2 arms) If I draw the full body (6 parts) before they figure out the answer they lose and don't get the pizza slice.
Art: The team that lands on this plays a game of pictionary. I have the student that rolled the dice go outside the classroom with me to tell him/ her what to draw. The student then has 90 seconds to draw it on the board and have his team guess what it is. If they can guess within 90 seconds they have won and are awarded the art pizza slice.
*This game worked well with older classes (8-15). Depending on how quickly the game is moving you can have just one team roll the dice, or both teams roll the dice. Kids seemed to like this game because they had a choice of where to go on the board game, some teams just tried to rack up lots of points and steal points or players from the other team... Other teams liked to go after the pizza slices. By the end of the game, the points and players have switched quite a bit so it really comes down to who has pizza at the end of class and who is currently on that team to win.