![]() Call the hunter back in, and have him/her start searching for the object by walking around the room. Hide a small item (we use a white board eraser) somewhere in the room. You can make up your own, but I love having ready to go sets of questions on hand, like this Would You Rather set from Cassie Dahl: Teaching & Technology.Ĭhoose one student to be the hunter, and have that person step into the hallway. They also make great get-to-know-you questions for morning meeting or back to school. For indoor recess, and to help get the wiggles out, I usually use a tape line on the floor and have them hop from one side to the other depending on their answer. Basically, you just give students two options, and they have to decide which one they’d rather do. Kids LOVE playing Would You Rather? – maybe because we get to talk about lots of fun (and gross) possibilities that usually don’t come up in class. Play continues until only one person remains, and that person becomes “it” for the next round. Before opening their eyes, the “it” person calls out a number from 1 to 4. The “it” person closes their eyes and counts out loud to 10 while everyone else chooses a corner of the room to go to. Each corner of the room gets numbered, from 1 to 4. This is a classic that we loved when I was a kid, too. You do have to create an account, but it’s free! 5. Exercise, guided dances, free dances, silly rhymes, you name it, GoNoodle has it. Most videos are between 2-4 minutes long, but there’s also a section of Indoor Recess Mega Mixes that range from 7-19 minutes. If you don’t already know about GoNoodle, do yourself and your students a favor and go check it out! The site has tons of brain break videos to get kids up and moving throughout the day. (Oh, and if you want to play a little Walking Dead trivia in between seasons, you can totally find those on Kahoot! too… just maybe don’t do that at school! Just sayin’.) 4. ![]() If you haven’t used Kahoot!yet, you can read more about it in this post. My students love to play random trivia during indoor recess. What you may not know is that there are tons of non-academic “just for fun” Kahoot!s out there. If you’re already using Kahoot! in your class, you know how much the kids love it. ![]() Added bonus: it’s relatively quiet, since mannequins can’t talk! 3. When the judge turns around and calls “mannequin!” everyone must freeze in place and hold the pose. Everyone else has a chance to move or dance around. Here’s how to play: Have one student be the judge and turn their back to the group. It’s not all over social media anymore, but students still love to play. I’ve always believed in using what’s popular for my own benefit at school, so I started doing a mannequin challenge during indoor recess or when we were waiting in the hallway. A few years ago, there was this mannequin challenge going around social media, and my students were obsessed.
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