Thursday, August 2, 2012

New Games For Summer

You know those days - the ones when your students comes in tired, cranky, distracted . . . No matter what you try to do, you can't get them to settle down and actually play their assigned piece and you still have 15 minutes of lesson time remaining.

There are two things I try to get the lesson back on track. If one doesn't work, the other usually does.

The first thing I try is directing the student to this website's fun and games page and have them play one of the games that works on one of the issues they are struggling with. The second thing I try is using games or other activities that use other senses to help them focus.

Here are a couple that I've just made in the last couple of weeks:


Just click on the pictures to begin your download.