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Inside the Beltway
Aug. 16, 2006
Cheap Shots: Bingo
Wow, time flies when you are having fun,
working hard, sending kids off to college, raising a family, and trying
to serve the Lord. After my previous post about using milk lids,
I meant to explain right away how to use bingo to review concepts. You
can make your boards on regular notebook paper; we had a lot of card
stock dividers given to us so we used those. Have the kids help
measure out the squares as per the measurements in my previous
post. (They don't have to be perfect--something I continually
remind myself). The middle square is marked FREE (or if you are
reviewing a foreign language, write it in that language); everyone gets
to put a milk lid game piece on it right away. Traditionally each
of the other squares has a number in it. The "caller" pulls
numbers from a container at random and the players cover the numbers
with the game pieces. Five in a row in any direction makes
"Bingo!" And that's just what I do for my Spanish classes to
review the numbers in Spanish. But there's so much more.....
For example, write in each square the two-letter
abbreviation of the U.S. states (or have the kids do it). These
boards could be used in a number of ways. At first, you just name
a state and the kids find the correct abbreviation. Once they are
familiar with the abbreviations, you name a capital and they find the
state. Later it could be you name important cities other than the
capital, or important facts about the state. The key to all bingo
games, however, is at the end, the winners have to read back what they
have marked to make sure those items were really called. We
usually are quite liberal with helping, especially the younger players.
I've used bingo boards for young kids learning
"sight" words (i.e. the ones that don't follow the rules of phonics)
and for middlers learning to distinguish homonyms. Your
imagination is your only limitation.
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