Name Six

This game is fun and challenging at the same time. It can be adapted for virtually any subject and any grade level. It allows the students to review material they've learned, without having to get out a pencil and paper and answer questions from the text.

• Arrange 6 chairs in a circle and choose one person, the teacher or another student, to stand outside the circle.
• Give someone in the circle a stuffed animal, the funnier the animal the better!
• The person outside the circle states what the person holding the animal has to name six of.
• The person then starts moving the animal around the circle and the other players pass it around.
• The player must name six of the objects before the animal gets back to him or her.

For example, let's say that you have just finished a vocabulary unit on animals. The person standing outside the group may say something like,"Name six animals that have fur." The person sitting in the circle begins namimg six animals and at the same time, the stuffed animal is being passed around the circle. If the player cannot name 6 animals with fur by the time the stuffed animal reaches him, he has lost and it's his turn to stand outside the group and stunt the other students.

My students absolutely love this game and so do I because it requires no prep time!! It may take the students a few times before they become successful at the game, but eventually I'm sure it will become one of their favorites. I hope you have as much success with Name Six as I have had.
Submitted by Sammie Leyder