Looking for the members of my species

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The teacher will form several groups of children (the same number of pupils in each group). He/she will whisper the name of an animal to each child (the same animals in every group).

Children will be quiet and they won't say anything about the animal that has been assigned to them. When the teacher says "go!" everybody has to move around the room, acting as if they were the animals the teacher has chosen for them (making the sound these animals usually do or moving like them). Besides, all of them must look for the members of their "own species".

When a child finds with a kind of animal that is not from their own species, he/she will try to help that animal telling him/her where he/she can find other creatures like him/her.

When a group is formed, the members must hold their hands and look for a place to remain at (it will be their hideout) till all the groups are completed.

The game can be enlarged if the teacher add sentences like these: "you have to find all the animal with feathers" or "all the animas that live in a farm", etc.

 



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