Submitted by Nancy Enders, Landisville, Pennsylvania
Idea posted May 15, 2003
I have created several games for the end-of-the-year review. Take library pocket cards and paste 25 on a large piece of oaktag. Laminate it and then cut the pockets open. I make 24 cards - one with an instrument name and a matching one with the picture of that instrument. I make one wild card. Place the cards in random order in each pocket - numbered from 1 to 25. Divide the class into two teams. Have one child pick two numbers and try to get a match. Play continues back and forth between the two teams until all cards have been matched. There will be one card left over - from the wild card match. The kids love this concentration game.
Another end of year game is Jeopardy with four categories; could be four instrument families with questions about each instrument, composers, rhythms to clap, melodies to identify, etc. I make these on overheads and again divide the class into two teams. We play as the TV game so they must answer in the form of a question.