Sotw review cards

[momtoboyz]

What are some interesting and creative ways you've used the review cards?
I'm wondering if there's some interesting ways to use them in a co-op setting.

[Ali in OR]

We put them on our homemade timeline. Except we're way way way behind on our timeline! The girls color them, I look up a date for the event and write it on there (if it's not there already), then we figure out where they go and tape them on.

[carlychan]

We have made little booklets out of them by glueing them onto cardstock. We have also put them onto an accordian fold book.

You could make flash cards out of them, play memory with double copies, or cover the chapter numbers and have the kids put them back in order.

You could put them onto a big piece of construction paper, have the child draw a picture to go along with the chapter, and make a "timeline" of sorts around a room in the house. At the younger ages they don't do timelines per se, so this would be a good alternative.

You could make a paper cube and glue the review cards on each side. The kids could take turns "rolling the dice" and telling something about the chapter they roll.

Just a few ideas off the top of my head.

Carly

[platosacademy]

We color them in and tape them to index cards. At the end of each week, I have my ds read through them, from the beginning of the book (we're on book 3). Once a month, he reads through the stack from the beginning of the series.

I was thinking that a card game could be made out of them...

You can also manipulate them so you can track history in different areas of the world. We've done that a few times with the atlas.

[lmrich]

I had an extra set so the kids could still use thier set for a timeline. I cut them out and put them on the kids' backs and they had to play a "who am I game", you know the one where you can only ask yes or no questions (I am a man? Did I like in Europe?) I also wrote clues about the people and they had to match them to the person by throwing the correct color ball into the bucket with that person (like "I was queen when the cyrstal exhibit hall was built" or "I love peace and walked a long way to make salt"). We also had a race, each team was given 10 events and had to order them correctly by running to the time line and only one person could go at a time and take only one card at a time. We did charades with books that we had read. We did a mystery interview, the kids acted like a person from the time line and had to answer our questions. I made a giant tic-tac-toe grid in the parking lot and wrote down some of the events or people from the time line and they had to tell something about that event or person before they could put in "X" or "O" in that square.

We did all of those things the last week of our classes. I felt like some of the activites were a little like "field day" for us. We also had a water ballon toss that day and other fun stuff too.

Enjoy the review! I was surprised how much the kids really remembered.

Linda

[momtoboyz]

Wow, what creative ideas! I never imagined. I love the cube ideas and all the games.

linda, i have a question about the "who am I game"? can you explain a bit more about the ball tossing. i don't get it yet.

thank you so much for the ideas. you all have definitely added a more fun element to our co-op.

anyone else?

thanks.