Playing Card Time
Playing Card Time
This game is for getting the kids asking each other "What time is
it?" and answering "It's...o'clock" and "It's...thirty".
1. First teach the kids "What time is it?" and the answers "It's...o'clock"
and "It's...thirty".
2. Break the class into small groups of 3 or 4. Give each group about 15 cards with at least 2 "face cards" (king, queen, jack) and put them face down on the desk
3. Kid A asks Kid B "What time is it?". Kid B pulls a card from
the deck. If it is a number card (such as 4 of diamonds) Kid B answers
"It's 4 o'clock". Then Kid B asks Kid C "What time is it?"
and so on.
4. If Kid B pulls a face card from the deck he then pulls other cards until
he gets a number card (say 4 of diamonds). Then he answers "It's 4
thirty". Then Kid B asks Kid C "What time is it?". The face
cards mean the half hour times.
Once they get the idea of the game you can wander from group to group checking
on them. The kids police themselves and there is no cheating. The stronger
students tend to help the weaker ones as well. The game revolves around
the tension of not knowing what card the student is going to pull. For
some reason they all think that "it'scthirty" is more difficult
than o'clock" but they all want to pull a face card! This game is
also good for checking on their pronunciation of thirty (so often confused
with thirteen).
This game has been officially classed by my 3rd and 4th graders as being good fun and they keep asking to play it.
(C) Copyright 2002 Neil Maher
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