Less than $5 Elementary School Oral Communication Games (by price, high to low)

Use this activity as an icebreaker with your AVID students or for any class or content! This team building resource promotes good communication skills which allows for AVID families to build trust and relational capacity. It also helps students prepare to be successful in their future college and career endeavors. This engaging game will allow AVID students to continue to develop those peer relationship as well as develop necessary skills!

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What's Included:

• cover page
• directions page
• 48 drawing cards

Directions:

• Print and laminate multiple sets of the image cards.
• Divide the class into multiple groups.
• Group members take turns drawing a card from a pile.
• The person who drew a card must not show their team the image or use words to describe it. Ie if it is a rainbow you can only use shapes, lines, and location to describe the drawing and cannot say things like, "it forms after the rain."
• The group member describes and gives directions on how to draw the image.
• The team then tries to use listening skills to copy the drawing based on the directions given.
• Repeat until all cards have been used.

Uses:

• teambuilding
• communication practice
• listening practice
• framework Friday

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In this AVID game of four corners, students will have the opportunity to reflect on their own passions and see what they have in common with others. Students will have a discussion on different career explorations and interests. This game is a great way to build community and get students thinking about their future careers!

What's Included:

• 4 corner signs (strongly agree, agree, strongly disagree, disagree)
• 20 career related statements

Directions:

• Label each of the four corners of your room with signs for the following: Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree.
• Pose one of the four statements below to the students.
• They should move quietly to the corner that best represents their individual answer to the statement.
• Encourage students to think about their personal responses, not to just follow their friends or the crowd.
• Once students are in the corners, give them a couple of minutes to share their responses before posing the next statement.

Uses:

• framework Friday

• teambuilding

• morning meeting

• school counseling

• AVID

• communication

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AVID Mega Growing Bundle

AVID Teambuilding Bundle

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Are you looking for identifying feelings games to encourage your young learners to identify different feelings and emotions? These 4 games will be a great addition to your social-emotional learning curriculum. Perfect for our young learners, these vibrant Feeling Monsters will engage them as they practice identifying feelings through engaging in these identifying feelings activities.

✯ Game 1: How Do I Feel?

Three different ways to use these cards to reinforce identifying feelings. The children may act out the feeling, describe the feeling or match the Feeling Monsters.

15 Feeling Monster Cards included: (Color & B&W)

• Happy
• Sick
• Silly
• Sorry
• Angry
• Sad
• Confused
• Calm
• Tired
• Scared
• Frustrated
• Excited
• Nervous
• Bored
• Shocked

*Detailed instructions & mini-instruction cards included.*

✯ Game 2: Match the Feeling (Color & B&W)

36 Identifying Feelings Scenarios

This game invites children to listen to common scenarios that may arise at school, at home or on the playground and match a Feeling Monster to that scenario.

*Detailed instructions & mini-instruction cards included.*

✯ Game 3: Feeling Monsters Bingo (Color & B&W)

2 Different ways to play!

We all love a quick game of BINGO! The teacher calls out a Feeling Monster. The children identify the Feeling Monster and shout BINGO when they have 3 in a row or when they have all the Feeling Monsters identified.

✯ Game 4: Feeling Monster- Go Fish! (Only in Color)

12 Feeling Monster Families

Each ‘Family’ contains 3 different colors (red, blue & green)

This fun twist on Go Fish encourages the children to work towards building a Monster Family. A fun way to reinforce identifying feelings with friends.

*Detailed instructions & mini-instruction cards included.*

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Use this end of the year, summer-themed activity as an icebreaker with your AVID students or for any class or content! This team-building game promotes good communication skills which allows for AVID families to build trust and relational capacity. It also helps students prepare to be successful in their future college and career endeavors. This engaging game will allow AVID students to continue to develop those peer relationships as well as develop necessary skills!

Get the AVID End-of-Year Bundle HERE!

Get the Drawing Challenge Bundle HERE!

⭐Drawing Challenge Bundle⭐

⭐AVID Team Building Bundle⭐

⭐AVID Growing Bundle⭐

What's Included:

• cover page
• directions page
• 48 drawing cards

Directions:

• Print and laminate multiple sets of the image cards.
• Divide the class into multiple groups.
• Group members take turns drawing a card from a pile.
• The person who drew a card must not show their team the image or use words to describe it. Ie if it is a rainbow you can only use shapes, lines, and location to describe the drawing and cannot say things like, "it forms after the rain."
• The group member describes and gives directions on how to draw the image.
• The team then tries to use listening skills to copy the drawing based on the directions given.
• Repeat until all cards have been used.

Uses:

• teambuilding
• communication practice
• listening practice
• framework Friday

More Drawing Challenges...

Year Round General Version

Halloween

More End of Year Resources...

Summer Games & Activities Bundle

Click HERE to see our other AVID resources. We also have several great AVID bundle options available down below!

AVID Mega Growing Bundle

AVID Teambuilding Bundle

AVID Writing Bundle

Use this back-to-school, first-week activity as an icebreaker with your AVID students or for any class or content! This team-building game promotes good communication skills which allows for AVID families to build trust and relational capacity. It also helps students prepare to be successful in their future college and career endeavors. This engaging game will allow AVID students to continue to develop those peer relationships as well as develop necessary skills!

⭐AVID Back to School Bundle!⭐

Get the Drawing Challenge Bundle HERE!

⭐Drawing Challenge Bundle⭐

⭐AVID Team Building Bundle⭐

⭐AVID Growing Bundle⭐

What's Included:

• cover page
• directions page
• 48 drawing cards

Directions:

• Print and laminate multiple sets of the image cards.
• Divide the class into multiple groups.
• Group members take turns drawing a card from a pile.
• The person who drew a card must not show their team the image or use words to describe it. Ie if it is a rainbow you can only use shapes, lines, and location to describe the drawing and cannot say things like, "it forms after the rain."
• The group member describes and gives directions on how to draw the image.
• The team then tries to use listening skills to copy the drawing based on the directions given.
• Repeat until all cards have been used.

Uses:

• teambuilding
• communication practice
• listening practice
• framework Friday

More Back to School AVID Resources...

WICOR Board

30 Second Speeches

More Drawing Challenges...

Year Round General Version

Halloween

End of Year

Click HERE to see our other AVID resources. We also have several great AVID bundle options available down below!

AVID Mega Growing Bundle

AVID Teambuilding Bundle

AVID Writing Bundle

Engage your students with this Zoomed In Halloween Game! Students will use critical thinking and observation skills to identify spooky, zoomed in images — perfect for brain breaks, Halloween class parties, morning meetings, icebreakers, and Fun Friday activities, and community building. This no-prep game is perfect for kindergarten through fourth grade students, who will love guessing these Halloween mystery images.

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What's Included:

• 25 zoomed-in mystery pictures
• 25 answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)
• editable Google Slides template to customize your own zoomed in images
• directions slide

Some pictures you will see:

• candy wrapper
• glow sticks
• witch's hat

More Halloween Resources:

Stand Up Sit Down

Would You Rather

Lines of Symmetry

Find Someone Who

After Fall Break Resources:

After Fall Break Icebreaker Bundle

Find Someone Who

Stand Up Sit Down

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MESSY BEDROOM Elementary PE Gym Team Game Teamwork, Cooperation, Communication

MESSY BEDROOM is a must-have activity for any elementary PE curriculum. Get your elementary students energized and engaged with this TEAMWORK, COOPERATION and COMMUNICATION game.

Designed by and for physical education teachers, this exciting activity puts a fun, fast-paced twist on the classic game of The Floor is Lava.

Students will love the challenge of this strategy and teamwork game which also gives them plenty of opportunity to work on their balance and locomotor skills.

This easy-to-play partner or small group team game is always a big hit and my fifth grade students love this game just as much as my kindergarten students because it is non-stop action and loads of fun!

Bring the excitement of this dynamic team game to your classroom and watch your students have a blast while learning important PE skills!

This resource includes:

-Eye Catching One Page Easy-to-Follow MESSY BEDROOM Lesson Plan (Perfect for easily giving to a substitute teacher, although with this game I would not, lol)

-Diagram of Game Set-Up and Play

Perfect for Students in Grades K-5

Be sure to check out my other fun and unique Elementary and Middle School PE Resources and Lesson Plans.

You can also find me at: love2teachandlearn.com

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a Blessed and Beautiful Day!

Mrs. T.

Are you in search of SEL icebreaker games and activities for your morning meetings or when getting to know new students? This cute SEL icebreaker game is perfect for breaking the ice with small groups, new students, classroom guidance lessons, or as a getting to know you activity. 

Build a S'more While You Learn S'more forces children to step outside their comfort zone and interact with others. Have endless fun with this resource when using it as a get to know me activity, back to school resource, icebreaker activity, small group activity, or rapport-building game!

Included in Download:

• 45 Grahmn Cracker Cards
• 27 Marshmallow Cards
• 27 Chocolate Cards
• 9 Tell Me S'more Free Passes

Use this SEL icebreaker game to help foster positive interactions among your students! Students will feel relaxed and at ease as they answer questions and "build" a s'more with their new friends. 

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Easily plan a back to school or first day of school activity with this digital zoomed in game! Perfect for brain breaks, icebreakers or morning meetings. Students will love trying to guess each zoomed in image! This is great for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade and fourth grade students.

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What's Included:

• 25 zoomed in mystery pictures
• 25 answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)
• editable template to customize your own zoomed in images
• Directions slide

Directions:

• Students will look at the zoomed-in portion of a larger image. The first slide of each picture is at maximum zoom.
• Students will try to guess what the picture is based on the tiny glimpse.
• The following slide reveals the mystery picture.

Some pictures you will see:

• world globe
• clock
• rubber band ball
• erasers
• sponge
• kiwi

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*Note this product may be used in brick an mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

Use this fall no-prep icebreaker would you rather game as a brain break, morning meeting activity, community building game, or for discussion starters. You can also use this digital autumn-themed resource for questions as writing prompts or even debate prompts. Your students will love having the opportunity to share and discuss some fun and silly fall traditions!

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What's Included:

• 25 would you rather slides
• 1 directions slide
• 1 directions slide template for you to add your own directions
• 1 editable template for you to add your own would you rather prompts

Directions:

• Display the slides for students.
• Read the two options and students must choose which one they would rather do.
• Students can respond in many different ways: sharing with the whole class, small groups, partners, debating, writing, etc.

Would You Rather Example Slides:

Have a corn cob nose OR have sunflower ears

Hoot like an owl every time you talked OR growl like a bear every time you stand up

Sleep on a bed full of pumpkin guts OR have to eat an entire large pumpkin

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Use this Halloween activity as an icebreaker with your AVID students or for any class or content during the fall season! This team-building game promotes good communication skills which allows for AVID families to build trust and relational capacity. It also helps students prepare to be successful in their future college and career endeavors. This engaging game will allow AVID students to continue to develop those peer relationships as well as develop necessary skills!

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What's Included:

• cover page
• directions page
• 48 Halloween-themed drawing cards

Directions:

• Print and laminate multiple sets of image cards.
• Divide the class into multiple groups.
• Group members take turns drawing a card from a pile.
• The person who drew a card must not show their team the image or use words to describe it. Ie if it is a rainbow you can only use shapes, lines, and location to describe the drawing and cannot say things like, "it forms after the rain."
• The group member describes and gives directions on how to draw the image.
• The team then tries to use listening skills to copy the drawing based on the directions given.
• Repeat until all cards have been used.

Uses:

• teambuilding
• communication practice
• listening practice
• framework Friday

Click HERE to see our other AVID resources. We also have several great AVID bundle options available down below!

AVID Mega Growing Bundle

AVID Teambuilding Bundle

AVID Writing Bundle

Use this Earth Day team-building activity to not only get students excited about learning how we can protect our Earth but also as a way to promote good communication and public speaking skills! This printable game is also great for use as a brain break, morning meeting activity, indoor recess, transition activity, reward and so much more.

✨Earth Day Activity Packet & Drawing Challenge Bundle✨

What's Included:

• cover page
• directions page
• 48 Earth Day-themed drawing cards

Directions:

• Print and laminate multiple sets of image cards.
• Divide the class into groups.
• Group members take turns drawing a card from a pile.
• The person who drew a card must not show their team the image or use words to describe it. Ie if it is a you can only use shapes, lines, and location to describe the drawing and cannot say things like, "it forms after the rain."
• The group member describes and gives directions on how to draw the image.
• The team then tries to use listening skills to copy the drawing based on the directions given.
• Repeat until all cards have been used.

Uses:

• Earth Day challenge
• teambuilding
• communication practice
• listening practice
• Fun Friday
• and more!

Earth Day

Activity Packet

Would You Rather

Find Someone Who

Symmetry Drawings

Spring

Finish the Story

Would You Rather

Activity Packet

Find Someone Who

Stand Up

This 6-page resource has 4 pages of cut-out animal cards (48 in total), an explanation slide for teachers and a visual prompt for students that I like projecting during the activity as a reminder and revision before the activity.

I teach Core French to low-level middle schoolers who need engaging, highly visual, loud, movement-heavy activities to participate and get into it and all of my Core French products fit this demographic.

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⭐️ Je vous présente... / Presenting...

⭐️ Prof du jour / Teacher of the Day

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Emotion Feeling Expression Puzzle Game Cards for Kindergarten

This engaging and educational resource is designed to help young learners identify and understand their emotions.

The game includes 16 emotions( Happy, Sad, Angry, Excited, Disappointed, Shy, Bored, Curious, Embarrassed, Offended, Sleepy, Scared, Silly, Proud, Confused and Surprised), each presented with 8 relatable prompts.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and express a variety of emotions
• Develop emotional vocabulary
• Understand that different situations can trigger different emotions.

How to Play:

1. Print and laminate the emotion cards.
2. Cut out the cards along the dotted lines.
3. Mix up the cards and place them face down.
4. Players take turns flipping over two cards.

This resource can be used in a variety of settings, including:

• Homeschooling
• Early childhood classrooms
• Counseling centers
• Special education settings

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Bottle Flip is a partner team-building card game and it's the perfect icebreaker for your AVID students (or for students in any content area) who are returning to school after spring break! This activity allows students to talk and share their experiences in a fun and interactive way. Students will take turns trying to gain points by flipping a bottle upright! When they miss, they have to answer a question and lose a chance at points.

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, the AVID team-building card game is the perfect choice!

✨AVID Spring Bundle✨

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Team Building Bundle

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Bottle Flip Bundle

How to Play Bottle Flip

• Place students into random partners and give each set of partners a water bottle to flip
• Print discussion cards for each group
• Have students get out paper for scoring
• The oldest student flips first
• If they flip the bottle and it lands upright, the flipper gets 2 points, and then its their partners turn to flip
• If they flip the bottle and it does not land upright, they have to draw and answer a random question
• If the flipper answers the question, they get one point. If the student does not answer or says “I don’t know,” the OTHER student gets the point and they get to take their turn
• play for 10 minutes and switch partners!

What's Included

• Directions page
• 50 "after spring break" question cards
• blank cards to write your own words

*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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Bottle Flip is a partner team-building card game and it's the perfect icebreaker for your AVID students (or for students in any content area) who are returning to school after winter break! This activity allows students to talk and share their experiences in a fun and interactive way. Students will take turns trying to gain points by flipping a bottle upright! When they miss, they have to answer a question and lose a chance at points.

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, the AVID team-building card game is the perfect choice!

Bundle and save over 30%:

✨AVID Mega Bundle✨

Team Building Bundle

Partner Games Bundle

Bottle Flip Bundle

How to Play Bottle Flip

• Place students into random partners and give each set of partners a water bottle to flip
• Print discussion cards for each group
• Have students get out paper for scoring
• The oldest student flips first
• If they flip the bottle and it lands upright, the flipper gets 2 points, and then its their partners turn to flip
• If they flip the bottle and it does not land upright, they have to draw and answer a random question
• If the flipper answers the question, they get one point. If the student does not answer or says “I don’t know,” the OTHER student gets the point and they get to take their turn
• play for 10 minutes and switch partners!

What's Included

• Directions page
• 50 "after winter break" question cards
• blank cards to write your own words

*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

Check out other AVID resources HERE!

Check out more Collaboration resources HERE!

Check out more Public Speaking resources HERE!

Partner Icebreaker | Team Building Activity - Bottle Flip: Bottle Flip is a partner team-building card game and it's the perfect icebreaker for your AVID students (or for students in any content area). This activity allows students to talk and share their personal beliefs, ideas, and experiences. Students will take turns trying to gain points by flipping a bottle upright! When they miss, they have to answer a question and lose a chance at points.

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, the AVID team-building card game is the perfect choice!

Bundle and save over 30%:

✨AVID Mega Bundle✨

Team Building Bundle

Partner Games Bundle

Bottle Flip Bundle

How to Play Bottle Flip

• Place students into random partners and give each set of partners a water bottle to flip
• Print discussion cards for each group
• Have students get out paper for scoring
• The oldest student flips first
• If they flip the bottle and it lands upright, the flipper gets 2 points, and then its their partners turn to flip
• If they flip the bottle and it does not land upright, they have to draw and answer a random question
• If the flipper answers the question, they get one point. If the student does not answer or says “I don’t know,” the OTHER student gets the point and they get to take their turn
• play for 10 minutes and switch partners!

What's Included

• Directions page
• 60 question cards
• blank cards to write your own words

*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

Check out other AVID resources HERE!

Check out more Collaboration resources HERE!

Check out more Public Speaking resources HERE!

This exciting back to school-themed 30-second speech activity is great for AVID, counseling, college and career, speech, or can be used as a fun brain break in any class! Use it during the first week of school to gauge your student's public speaking, dialogue, eye contact, planning, and teamwork skills!

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✨Public Speaking Bundle✨

✨AVID Bundle✨

✨AVID Team Building Bundle✨

What's Included:

• 1 directions pages
• 1 optional points slide
• 15 back to school topics with silent 30 second prep timers
• 15 thirty-second speech timer slides
• 1 editable template to make your own OR let students make their own!

Directions:

• Put students into groups or breakout rooms of 4-6 students
• Go over the directions with students:
• Wait for the impromptu topic to show up on the screen (ex: why schools should have a designated nap time)
• Decide who in the group will start and that student will have 30 seconds to prepare for their speech after the topic is revealed
• After 30 seconds the student will present their topic for 30 seconds

Optional Points:

• Secretly give points/take away points from group members on a small whiteboard or notebook paper
• Groups can earn by: Focusing on good voice, being creative with their responses, eye contact, posture, using an opening/closing statement, and making good points for your topic
• Groups can lose points by: being a poor audience member, having poor posture, not using good voice, not using eye contact, using filler words: like, um, so, okay, yeah, kinda…

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More AVID back to school resources...

Drawing Challenge

More 30-Second Speeches...

General Version with 25 Topics

Summer 30 Second Speeches

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Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with this Zoomed In / Guess the Picture Game! Use this game as a no-prep St. Patrick's Day party game, brain break, icebreaker, morning meeting activity or classroom spring activity in your kindergarten, first-grade, second-grade, third-grade, and fourth-grade students! Students will love trying to guess what these Saint Patrick's Day images are!

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**✨**Save 30% with the Zoomed In Year Long Bundle!✨

What's Included:

• 20 zoomed-in mystery pictures
• 20 answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)
• editable Google Slides template to customize your own zoomed in images
• directions slide

Some zoomed-in pictures you will see:

• leprechaun
• four leaf clover
• pot of gold
• shamrock sunglasses

More Saint Patrick's Day Resources:

Would You Rather

Find Someone Who

Scavenger Hunt

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Halloween Team Building and Public Speaking Card Game Activity- Connect the Dots: This Halloween AVID inspired Card Game is the ultimate public speaking and team-building resource for AVID students (or any content area) - This engaging and educational card game is designed to help students develop their public speaking skills and build teamwork in a fun and interactive way. It is perfect for AVID classrooms and beyond! It's suitable for use in AVID classrooms, as well as any classroom that values public speaking and teamwork. Students will draw 2 Halloween-themed cards and try to connect the 2 words by telling a story with them.

Connect the dots boosts confidence, enhances communication, and fosters collaboration. Through playing this card game, students will gain the confidence and skills necessary to succeed in public speaking and work effectively in teams, setting them up for success both in and out of the classroom.

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How to Play Connect the Dots

• Print, cut, and laminate the 200 cards provided.

• Put the word cards into box or non-see through bag.

• A player picks two cards and then must immediately begin telling a story connecting both words together convincingly. The story should only be 1-2 minutes, complicated, or true!

• Once your class is comfortable with connecting two words, add to your word collection and increase the number of cards selected to three or even four.

Skills

• Moving from one idea to another smoothly, in a way that can be readily understood and followed by your audience, is a must-have public speaking skill.

• Connect the Dots gives people the opportunity to practice. Finding a way to conenct the words and practicing the ability to make those connections will become stronger and stronger.

• An added benefit of the game is listening and learning from each other.

What's Included

• Directions page
• Skills page
• Example story
• 200 word cards
• blank cards to write your own words

*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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Check out more Collaboration resources HERE!

Check out more Public Speaking resources HERE!