----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly Stok (dvl)" <bev@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: activity suggestion Thanks Laaurie for the idea. With the New year around the corner you could do it with the thing being a shofar or apple and honey or a new year greeting card. From there you could develop a lesson around the theme of the New Year Bev -- Macam WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) Laurie wrote: > I'd like to suggest playing "21 Questions" as a good start-off-the- > day activity, one that gets the kids involved and speaking. It's > also a good chance to review yes/no questions! It takes about 5 minutes. > > For those who don't know the rules of the game.... > Bring "something" to class but don't let on what it is. The pupils > are allowed 21 yes/no questions only to ask and find out what that > "something" is. They must be attentive and listen to their > classmates or they may repeat questions already asked. The 1st > person to guess correctly is the winner. > > I added a twist and extra interest to this today and told the class > that whoever guesses right, gets the "something". (a good way to get > rid of little but fun "extras" lying about the house!) > > Next lesson, 1 of the pupils is going to bring an item for another round! ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------