While I continue playing the games taught in previous grades, I wait to present certain games so that students can experience the excitement of playing new games every year. These are my favorites for third grade:
Game: Students create an evenly spaced grid with their finger tips touching. If you have a class of 20, you could set the grid up with five lines of four people (partial rows are fine). Select one student to be the farmer and one to be the sow (pig) and have them start on opposite sides of the grid. Students in the grid represent corn and should all be facing the same direction. After singing "Keemo komo keemo," students in the grid turn 45 degrees in the same direction together, touch the finger tips of their new neighbors, and change the layout of the grid. While students sing, the farmer chases after the sow and tries to tag them. The farmer and the sow are not allowed to break through the arms of students forming the grid.
2. Big Fat Biscuit: This is a great song for teaching low la, syncopa, and/ or dotted quarter-eighth!
Game: Line students up in three lines behind a starting point. On each "chewbaloo," a student at the front of each line does a standing long jump. Mark where the student with the longest jump landed. After every student has jumped, the student with the longest jump wins.
3. I've Been to Harlem: This a great song for teaching low sol, and AB form.
Game: I teach the cup game with the A section of the song. For the B section, have students pass cups on the beat, or do some other action to make the sections clear. The words I use to teach the cup game are as follows:
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