Brilliant classroom materials are only as good as the amount of use they get in the classroom.
The Jerantut mentors and teacher Rohaida Binti Mohd Aripin from SK Jerantut Jaya got together to make a fun card game that helps children learn the vocabulary for food. We called the game Hungry Monster, and it is a lot of fun to play.
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| Hungry Monster card game |
The game is a variant of Old Maid. The whole pack is dealt out to the players, and each player must match the food picture cards to the corresponding food word cards. The players take it in turns to pick cards from other players' hands in order to make more pairs. When you make a pair you can put it down on the table, and the first player to pair up all of his or her cards is the winner. Winning, however, is not the point. The point is NOT losing. There is one card that does not have a corresponding pair - the Hungry Monster - and the player who is left holding this card at the end of the game is the loser.
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| Up to eight players can play. |
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| It gets quite tense. |
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| Players put their pairs down on the table. Notice the cheat sheet that comes with every pack. |
We usually divide the room into four groups - like we do for station teaching. Two groups are given the cards to play, and the other two groups can choose from one of three fun puzzle sheets to complete (the same puzzle for everyone at the station). The puzzle sheets use exactly the same vocabulary and illustrations as the Hungry Monster card game. This means that there are a lot of opportunities for pupils to meet and use the same vocabulary over and over in different contexts.
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One of the puzzle sheets: this one is a word search
with space for children to make their own pictures
to match the relevant vocabulary. |
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| Fully engaged! |
Talk to your mentor if you want to play Hungry Monster with your classes.
Stephen-Peter Jinks (ELC Jerantut)
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