Introduction
You want more results of your teachings. You have to include games and activities as competitions. These are very interesting for students. Students take interest in activities and games. They want to compete and win. These competitions are useful to energise your students and classroom. We will give you some games and activities for competitions in the classroom.
Healthy And Energising Competitions For Students Motivation
Morning Assembly
Morning time is beginning of the day. Start school day with morning assembly. There students meet to each other. They greet each other. They discuss their whole day resolution. They make a plan for whole learning day. This activity will enhance communicative ability in them. They learn how to start their day. In a school it should be must for every class. Every student have to attend morning meeting. This is healthy practice for students and teachers.
Story Time
In this activity teacher will read a story. This story must related to the day’s lesson. Motivate and encourage students for participation. They can ask questions or add some new points to this story. Teacher discuss events and happenings and increase interest of students. This activity is a good beginning for whole day learning. Students like stories. You observe students can make a story according to their situation. Teacher can involve students in making and telling a story.
Brain Storming
Warm up students through brain storming activities. Teacher can ask riddles. Teacher can ask frequent questions for fun. These activities will boost their knowledge. It can sharpen their mind. Students can solve given riddles and puzzles. Encourage them to work in peers and groups. Students will motivated to work for whole day. These are energetic activities. These are useful for motivation of students.
Hands On Activities
Engage students to do hands on activities. Teacher can set up sensory station in the classroom. There student involves in different activities. These stations are divided into different subjects. Maths, computer, science and arts. These stations include different objects according to subjects. For example maths station includes counting blocks. Science station includes baskets fill with sand , water and bottles. Computer station includes tablets laptops. Arts station includes papers , colours and cards. These stations enhance students interest.
Refreshments Breaks
Breaks are essential in learning process. Students cannot work through out the whole day. You can use different activities to refresh students. They need movement. These movement breaks boost their energy and focus in classroom. These activities can be yoga poses, simple movement steps or simple stretches. After taking these breaks students restart their learning with new energy. These are energetic and healthy competitions.
Whiteboard Games Or Apps
Engage students in different activities. These activities can be on whiteboard. These activities include word searching, matching and interactive quiz. These engagement of students through activities develop interest of students in classroom. These also improve vocabulary of students. Students can do these activities in peer and groups. Different educational apps can also used in classroom for better learning. These activities will make your teaching more enjoyable for students.
Creative Arts And Crafts
Develop student’s creative skills through arts and crafts activities. Engage students in drawing, painting and colleague making. As well as they can create cards and charts. They can create different crafts to decorate their classroom. Ask students to define them. It enhance their communication skills. Other students also learn new ideas with collaboration and vision. Arts and crafts are leaned from hands on activities. Students show involvement and interest in these activities.
Dialogues Or Role Play
Through these activities students perform role play. These activities improves their vocabulary. According to the lesson they act different roles. Role play improves their understanding level. Role play can improve student’s understanding of complex or difficult concepts. Students learn better through experiments.
Outdoor Activities
Take your students to outside of school in school ground. You can take them on nature walks. There encourage them to observe them to see plants, birds and other natural phenomena. This activity will enhance their curiosity. They will learn with real understanding. Natural beauty will fresh them and they learn with inner spirit.
Classroom Pets
Students love pets so you can arrange a classroom pet for example Fish or turtle. Students love pets and they enjoy with them. They seek life skills and companionship from this activity. They learn sense of responsibility. Students learn value of life skills. This is very interesting activity.
Show And Tell
In this activity allow students to bring different things from home. Students are very fond of showing their things to other fellows. They can show these objects to other students and tell them about these objects. You can design a session of show and tell. Through this activity students learn public communication skills and engagement with other fellows. In this activity students learn from show and tell .
Themed Dressed-Up Day
Celebrate themed day in the school. Ask students to come in different dresses. They can come in their favourite character , cultural and profession dresses. This will promote understanding of culture, professions and different story characters. This activity is learning point and fun for students.
STEM Challenges
Through these activities teacher can arrange STEM competitions in classroom. Manage different games to enhance their learning in Science , technology, engineering and Maths. Students learn through hands on activities in STEM. Their concept cleared through these activities.
Story Sequencing
In these activities teacher can use different pictures and cards to tell a story. These pictures and cards should have a sequence to complete a story. You can provide cards to students to arrange them in an correct order. This will enhance students level of story making. They can learn how to write a story in sequence. It will build their vocabulary and sentence sense.
Conclusion
These activities are very important to learn early stage concepts. These activities build students level of learning. They got prominent learning. These activities improve their interest and understanding. Students learn from experiment and hands on activities. Students take interest to work in teams and peers. They love to learn in groups and through games. Different games, activities and competitions create healthy and energetic environment in the classroom.