There’s a number of games that can be played in the homeschool classroom for a few minutes that can rev up the energy of the sagging students. Here’s a few suggestions. You can try them out and add variations that suit your homeschool students better. The idea is to have fun and suspend formal learning for a while.
The Pink Toe Game
This is a simple game that even pre-schoolers can join in. The homeschool teacher calls out a color and a body part – Pink Toe! Now the homeschool student must find something of pink color in the classroom and touch it with their toe. Brown Finger would involve finding something of brown color and touching it with their finger. You can revise both the colors and the body parts with this fun game. It also gives the kids a chance to get out of their seats and physically do something.
The Sports Mime Game
This is more action oriented and your primary grade homeschool students will love it. The sports announcer, or the homeschool teacher, announces a sports skill, such as dribbling a basket ball. As soon as the announcement is made the kids have to mime the action for ten seconds. Then the next announcement is made. Possible sports skills that can be mimed include shooting a jump shot, batting a baseball home run, skating a figure eight, skiing down a hill, a ballerina making a twirl, playing a tennis volley, and you can let your imagination go wild.
The Keyword Musical Game
For your older homeschool students with a musical inkling, this game will be super fun. Use a list of random words and write them down on individual chits of paper. Now as the homeschool student picks a chit, the keyword on the paper becomes the cue to as many songs as he can think of. For example if the word is walk, the songs can be walking like an Egyptian, only thing about me is the way I walk, etc. The idea is to sing out songs which include the verb walk or walking. The kid to get the maximum number of songs from his keyword is declared the winner.
