Be the first player to get around the neighborhood in an educational Trick or Treating board game. Earn chocolates along the way, but watch out for empty houses, and homes which give apples, bubble gum, and jaw breakers! The Trick or Treater with the most chocolate wins!!
Step One:
Create a game board, or use an existing game board like the Candy Land game board.
Have 3 or 4 so you can have small groups playing.
Have 25-100 spaces depending on the level of your students.
Step Two:
Color coordinate the game board and write objectives on each space, also depending on the level of your studetns.
Examples:
Grades 1-3--They know only simple things like colors so each color represents how many chocolates they would earn.
Grades 4-6--They understand simple sentences like Go back 3, move forward 2, You get 4 Chocolates.
Grades 7-8--Mr. George gives you a chocolate. Bad Luck, Only apples given here.
Grades 8 and up--I do not have these grades but more complex sentences would work too I assume.
How to Play.
Each group is given a Board, a Dice, and a Score Card.
One player rolls the dice and moves the amount shown. They read the space and do what it says.
If they earned a chocolate they mark it on the score sheet. Who ever has the most chocolate wins.
My students have enjoyed this, it was an excellent way to curb some of their anticipation of the up and coming break from school.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
One Person Card Game
Laying Seige, Sham Battle, or Beleaguered Castle
This is a one person card game to fill up some of the one on one time we often find ourselves with. TV is boring, and sometimes one gets a little tired of reading. Plus the weather right now is wonderful, but soon it will be foggy and dreary, and lets face it we need something to do.
A= Aces
1-48=the rest of the deck in dealing order.
Set up
Step One: Remove all four aces from one deck of regular playing cards.
Step Two: Place these aces in a column in the middle of a table.
A
A
A
A
Step Three: Shuffle the remainder of the deck.
Step Four: A column of four is delt to the left of the aces followed by the right.
1 A 5
2 A 6
3 A 7
4 A 8
Step Five: Continue dealing in this way until the deck is gone. There should be 6 cards in each pile.
1 9 17 25 33 41 A 5 13 21 29 37 45
2 10 18 26 34 42 A 6 14 22 30 38 46
3 11 19 27 35 43 A 7 15 23 31 39 47
4 12 20 28 36 44 A 8 16 24 32 40 48
The object is to build on the foundations, the aces suit sequences up to the kings. A 2 3 4---K
The cards available or open to play are those on the far end of each row. Cards 41-48 at first. i.e those cards whose faces are fully exposed.
Open cards can be played directly onto the foundations(aces), or onto another open card in decending order of rank, irrespective of suit, e.g. a 6 can be packed on any 7.
When one row is empty it can be filled with any available card. There are always 8 available cards for play.
J and J in the kitchen again!!!
Here is an idea for the upcoming Hungarian celebration of the 1956 revolt. This dish is also very Octoberish.
Needed stuff- this is for two people
One squash aka TŐK - this should be gord shaped, skinny on top and fat on the bottom
Cashue Nuts - spelling may be off but U know what I have in mind - 1 pkg
Raisins - small package
Sunflower oil
Brown Sugar
Honey
Garlic - one full large head per person (2)
Red large paprika - fresh
Paprika powder - mild
Aluminum foil
baking pan
ground beef - 250 grams
packaged "steak" seasoning
egg - 1
mushrooms
onion
rice
lettice
Instructions are simple. First chop up mushrooms and raisins in a small bowl. Next cut garlic into good sized bits, about size of little finger nail. Put garlic, raisins and cashues into a bowl, Nuts should be lightly broken up first. Add a big tablespoon of paprika powder to nut mix. Next, prepare ground beef patties by mixing chopped mushrooms and chopped onion and egg plus a two tablespoons of "steak" premix flavoring. Form into patties and put in oven at setting 5 (cook for 30 minutes minimum). While cooking meet, cut squash into half the long way. Clean out seeds. Poke with fork and put in microwave at high setting for about 12-15 minutes. It should be juicy and kind of soft when done enough. Cut several slits into the half sections and drizzle honey over, also pat on a generous amount of brown sugar. Put halves into their individual "dish" of aluminum foil and place in oven. These need to bake about 25 minutes or more. When the meet patties are done the oven can be turned up to "6". Be careful not to tear the foil or you will have one ^&$% of a mess in the oven.
Now do the rice. Nothing special here.
Prepare several large lettice leaves. Now the fun part.
About the time the rice is done everything should be done. So at about rice done minus 8 put the nut mix in a pan with oil and fry. This should start to smell quite yummy and drive off any local vampires. Check the meet and squash for your preference of "done". The "Tők" should be soft and the sugar bubbling. Remove from oven very carefully as the sugar will cook anything it touches including you. Put squash on plate and fill hole with nut/garlic mix. Put extra all over the top of the squash. Put meat patty on plate. Put lettice leaf on plate. Put a quantity of rice on the lettice leaf. Sprinkle red paprika powder on top of the rice. Voila, you have a mini Hungarian flag.
Serve with bread and cold beer. PS- don't eat the skin of the squash.
J and J
Needed stuff- this is for two people
One squash aka TŐK - this should be gord shaped, skinny on top and fat on the bottom
Cashue Nuts - spelling may be off but U know what I have in mind - 1 pkg
Raisins - small package
Sunflower oil
Brown Sugar
Honey
Garlic - one full large head per person (2)
Red large paprika - fresh
Paprika powder - mild
Aluminum foil
baking pan
ground beef - 250 grams
packaged "steak" seasoning
egg - 1
mushrooms
onion
rice
lettice
Instructions are simple. First chop up mushrooms and raisins in a small bowl. Next cut garlic into good sized bits, about size of little finger nail. Put garlic, raisins and cashues into a bowl, Nuts should be lightly broken up first. Add a big tablespoon of paprika powder to nut mix. Next, prepare ground beef patties by mixing chopped mushrooms and chopped onion and egg plus a two tablespoons of "steak" premix flavoring. Form into patties and put in oven at setting 5 (cook for 30 minutes minimum). While cooking meet, cut squash into half the long way. Clean out seeds. Poke with fork and put in microwave at high setting for about 12-15 minutes. It should be juicy and kind of soft when done enough. Cut several slits into the half sections and drizzle honey over, also pat on a generous amount of brown sugar. Put halves into their individual "dish" of aluminum foil and place in oven. These need to bake about 25 minutes or more. When the meet patties are done the oven can be turned up to "6". Be careful not to tear the foil or you will have one ^&$% of a mess in the oven.
Now do the rice. Nothing special here.
Prepare several large lettice leaves. Now the fun part.
About the time the rice is done everything should be done. So at about rice done minus 8 put the nut mix in a pan with oil and fry. This should start to smell quite yummy and drive off any local vampires. Check the meet and squash for your preference of "done". The "Tők" should be soft and the sugar bubbling. Remove from oven very carefully as the sugar will cook anything it touches including you. Put squash on plate and fill hole with nut/garlic mix. Put extra all over the top of the squash. Put meat patty on plate. Put lettice leaf on plate. Put a quantity of rice on the lettice leaf. Sprinkle red paprika powder on top of the rice. Voila, you have a mini Hungarian flag.
Serve with bread and cold beer. PS- don't eat the skin of the squash.
J and J
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
The Last Poppet Lesson
I have had my students reading Poppet for several weeks now, and reviewing the vocabulary found within the book. Interestingly enough we are just getting it down, but are rather bored with the book.
To finish the book off, and enjoy the poem once again, I brought art into the classroom. I brought with me some paper bags, the ones we used as children to carry our lunches to school. I walked studetns through how to make a paper bag puppet. We made the puppet resembling out favorite animals and wrote the poem used earlier on the back in a sharpy marker. They like how they smell!!
When the puppet was finished we took turns saying the poem, but ending with I am not a mouse, I am a (whatever animal they created). When we all had our turn, we partnered up and practiced... what is your name? how old are you? and what is your favorites?
To finish the book off, and enjoy the poem once again, I brought art into the classroom. I brought with me some paper bags, the ones we used as children to carry our lunches to school. I walked studetns through how to make a paper bag puppet. We made the puppet resembling out favorite animals and wrote the poem used earlier on the back in a sharpy marker. They like how they smell!!
When the puppet was finished we took turns saying the poem, but ending with I am not a mouse, I am a (whatever animal they created). When we all had our turn, we partnered up and practiced... what is your name? how old are you? and what is your favorites?
Kat Woman's Lesson Idea!!!
Tic Tac Toe Review
Make a 5x5 or 7x7 grid on the board.
Write the pronouns at the top of each column (i.e. I, you, they, we, he/she/it) or you can use professions which has been my target vocabulary for the week (i.e. a flight attendant, a nurse, a vet, an architect, a builder...)
Next to each row, you can write different verbs (i.e. see, have, eat, go, do) and for the advanced classes, I put a question mark.
Divide the class into two teams: Team X and Team O. (Interestingly enough, no one wanted to be Team O...I think they equated it with "loser").
Then, give each kid a chance to make a sentence using the grid. The sentence must be grammatically correct (The flight attendant sees airplanes). When a student matches a pronoun or profession with the question mark, they have to make a correct question (Do you eat cake?) Then that team gets either an X or an O in their box. If they get three in a row (up down, diagonal, or across) their team gets a point. The advanced classes were not allowed to help each other, but the lower level classes had a lot of trouble with it, so I let them help each other. They should eventually see how their team not only has to give grammatically correct sentences, but use strategy on where to put their X's and O's.
This game is great because you can use it multiple times for review and every single kid was involved. I got it from Dave's ESL Cafe at www.daveseslcafe.com.
Make a 5x5 or 7x7 grid on the board.
Write the pronouns at the top of each column (i.e. I, you, they, we, he/she/it) or you can use professions which has been my target vocabulary for the week (i.e. a flight attendant, a nurse, a vet, an architect, a builder...)
Next to each row, you can write different verbs (i.e. see, have, eat, go, do) and for the advanced classes, I put a question mark.
Divide the class into two teams: Team X and Team O. (Interestingly enough, no one wanted to be Team O...I think they equated it with "loser").
Then, give each kid a chance to make a sentence using the grid. The sentence must be grammatically correct (The flight attendant sees airplanes). When a student matches a pronoun or profession with the question mark, they have to make a correct question (Do you eat cake?) Then that team gets either an X or an O in their box. If they get three in a row (up down, diagonal, or across) their team gets a point. The advanced classes were not allowed to help each other, but the lower level classes had a lot of trouble with it, so I let them help each other. They should eventually see how their team not only has to give grammatically correct sentences, but use strategy on where to put their X's and O's.
This game is great because you can use it multiple times for review and every single kid was involved. I got it from Dave's ESL Cafe at www.daveseslcafe.com.
From the kitchen of Jon and Jori!!!
Here is something to make your stomach happy. Hope you give it a try. We got all the items at SPAR.
From the kitchen of Jon and Jori:
Chicken-Mushroom Paprikash California-Style,
with carmalized honey carrots, and pepper salad
Ingredients:
(you should be able to find everything at Spar)
for the chicken:
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 package Maggi brand Tejszínes-Gombás Ragu
1 175 gram container of Tejföl (like sour-cream)
roughly 4 big white mushrooms
pepper (fekete bors - comes in a packet, not a shaker)
semi-sweet white wine (we recommend Muscat Ottonel)
mild virgin ground paprika (we recommend stuff that is hand-ground by the mayor of your town)
sunflower oil
milk (2.8%)
for the carrots:
Akácméz (honey)
1 package of majoranna morzolt
1/2 pound carrots
1 med-sized white onion
brown sugar (barnacukor)
for the rice:
white rice (risz)
little bit of sunflower oil
little bit of sea-salt (tengeri só) or regular salt
for the salad:
leaf lettuce
half a pale yellow pepper
a third of a big green spicy pepper
more big white mushrooms (as much as you want)
salad dressing (we recommend a creamy light dill - kapros salatóntet)
YOU WILL NEED:
two saucepans, one with a lid (for the rice)
a decent skillet
a gas grill oven with at least three burners
nice knife
wooden spoon (metal will not work well with the carrots!)
INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Carrots: Peel and slice. Put in a saucepan of 1 cup of boiling water (with a little bit of salt). Boil 5 min.
2) Carrots: Chop the onion into medium-fine pieces, and add to the carrots.
3) Rice: Add salt and 1 tbsp of sunflower oil to the water for the rice. (Cook rice as usual.)
4) Chicken: Lightly grease the bottom of the skillet with sunflower oil. Put salt and pepper on chicken, then brown lightly until they are cooked through, no pink (~5 min).
5) Salad: Make any kind of salad you like. We suggest leaf lettuce, half a pale yellow pepper, and part of a spicy green pepper (sliced thinly), and/or tomatoes, a sliced up apple, and dill dressing.
6) Chicken: Turn chicken every now and then. Add to the pan the crushed mushrooms, and stir. This should soak up most of the remaining oil.
7) Carrots: Thoroughly drain water. Add 2 tbsp of honey, 1 heaping tsp of marjoram spice, and 1/3 cup of brown sugar. Put them on medium high heat. CONSTANTLY watch and stir! At first they'll be watery, but be careful not to boil away all the liquid. Boil and stir until the water is reduced to syrup.
8) Chicken: In the mean-time... Have your handy kitchen-helper add to the chicken the sour-cream, mushroom sauce packet, and 1/4 cup milk. Simmer on low heat 5-10 min.
9) While these things are simmering, relax and have some wine while your assistant does the dishes and monitors the carrots.
10) Carrot: When carrots have almost no liquid left, take them off the stove, stir again once quickly to distribute the syrup evenly. They should be firm and not mushy! They're done now.
11) Chicken: Add 3 tbsp of wine, and 2 tsp of paprika. Stir. Let the sauce and chicken simmer, and flip the chicken around a lot to coat it. It's done now.
12) Serve with the rice underneath, and sauce on top. Furthermore, we recommend dining on a nice, bright balcony and eating as the sun sets. With fine wine. And a nice table-cloth.
From the kitchen of Jon and Jori:
Chicken-Mushroom Paprikash California-Style,
with carmalized honey carrots, and pepper salad
Ingredients:
(you should be able to find everything at Spar)
for the chicken:
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 package Maggi brand Tejszínes-Gombás Ragu
1 175 gram container of Tejföl (like sour-cream)
roughly 4 big white mushrooms
pepper (fekete bors - comes in a packet, not a shaker)
semi-sweet white wine (we recommend Muscat Ottonel)
mild virgin ground paprika (we recommend stuff that is hand-ground by the mayor of your town)
sunflower oil
milk (2.8%)
for the carrots:
Akácméz (honey)
1 package of majoranna morzolt
1/2 pound carrots
1 med-sized white onion
brown sugar (barnacukor)
for the rice:
white rice (risz)
little bit of sunflower oil
little bit of sea-salt (tengeri só) or regular salt
for the salad:
leaf lettuce
half a pale yellow pepper
a third of a big green spicy pepper
more big white mushrooms (as much as you want)
salad dressing (we recommend a creamy light dill - kapros salatóntet)
YOU WILL NEED:
two saucepans, one with a lid (for the rice)
a decent skillet
a gas grill oven with at least three burners
nice knife
wooden spoon (metal will not work well with the carrots!)
INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Carrots: Peel and slice. Put in a saucepan of 1 cup of boiling water (with a little bit of salt). Boil 5 min.
2) Carrots: Chop the onion into medium-fine pieces, and add to the carrots.
3) Rice: Add salt and 1 tbsp of sunflower oil to the water for the rice. (Cook rice as usual.)
4) Chicken: Lightly grease the bottom of the skillet with sunflower oil. Put salt and pepper on chicken, then brown lightly until they are cooked through, no pink (~5 min).
5) Salad: Make any kind of salad you like. We suggest leaf lettuce, half a pale yellow pepper, and part of a spicy green pepper (sliced thinly), and/or tomatoes, a sliced up apple, and dill dressing.
6) Chicken: Turn chicken every now and then. Add to the pan the crushed mushrooms, and stir. This should soak up most of the remaining oil.
7) Carrots: Thoroughly drain water. Add 2 tbsp of honey, 1 heaping tsp of marjoram spice, and 1/3 cup of brown sugar. Put them on medium high heat. CONSTANTLY watch and stir! At first they'll be watery, but be careful not to boil away all the liquid. Boil and stir until the water is reduced to syrup.
8) Chicken: In the mean-time... Have your handy kitchen-helper add to the chicken the sour-cream, mushroom sauce packet, and 1/4 cup milk. Simmer on low heat 5-10 min.
9) While these things are simmering, relax and have some wine while your assistant does the dishes and monitors the carrots.
10) Carrot: When carrots have almost no liquid left, take them off the stove, stir again once quickly to distribute the syrup evenly. They should be firm and not mushy! They're done now.
11) Chicken: Add 3 tbsp of wine, and 2 tsp of paprika. Stir. Let the sauce and chicken simmer, and flip the chicken around a lot to coat it. It's done now.
12) Serve with the rice underneath, and sauce on top. Furthermore, we recommend dining on a nice, bright balcony and eating as the sun sets. With fine wine. And a nice table-cloth.
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