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Brief Outline: A rhythm game to practice days of the week.

Materials Needed:

• Days of the week flashcards (not included)

Detailed Explanation:

1. Review the flash cards. Don't shuffle them (If not days of the week cards). Let the students get used to the order.
2. Teach the students the beat to, 'We will Rock You." The beat is "clap, clap, stomp.'
3. Start with one row and then work your way to the back.  Change rows and then work your way around while the students are clapping the beat. Make sure the students know what order they are going in beforehand.
4. Students need to say the vocabulary immediately after the "stomp."
5. If a student can't say the word or the vocabulary on time ( clap, clap, stomp.) then they have to sit down. However they should still continue making the beat and the next student will pick up where they left off.
6. Last student standing wins. 

Teaching Suggestions:

• The clapping and stomping may throw some students off beat and distract them.  Remember to practice a few rounds before you start the game so no students will feel bad about messing up.

Comments:

• (Dec 9, 2011) Shida said: I love the idea, but I agree that it needs to be a bit clearer where the day is meant to go. To me, it should come on the third beat of the phrase. "* * Monday! * * Tuesday!" rather than " * * _ Monday!" - it rushes the students and disjoints the rhythm so it STOPS being We Will Rock You! 
  I've also found it amuses my students when I speak the vowels of the start of the words (for example MUH MUH MONDAY). I use this as a level one for most of them before I let them start stomping, though I have one very hyper class where I try to keep the stomping to a minimum... they always try to go through the floor! 
  [For me, it's rhythmically more like "stomp-stomp clap" - BOOM-BOOM Tah! I'm a bit of a stickler... I have so many teachers who want to teach rhythmically but couldn't carry a rhythm in a bucket!!!]
• (June 22, 2011) Ben said: nevermind...I got it..I didn`t read it careful enough.. 
• (June 22, 2011) Ben said: Question? 
  What beat do you decide to put the day into......? 

1. フラッシュカードで曜日の練習をしてください。カードは混ぜずに１週間の通常の順番で出して児童に慣れさせてください。
2. Queenの「We will Rock You.」のリズムは「
   拍手・拍手・足踏み」を児童に教えてください。
3. 児童全員が立ってリズムをとります。前の児童から後ろまで順番を回してください。ゲームをする前に必ずどの順番で回していくのか確認してください。
4. 足踏みの後に番が回ってきた児童は曜日を言います。曜日を言う児童以外はリズムをとり続けます。先生は曜日のフラッシュカードを児童に見せせるかまたは、曜日を順番どおりに言うように伝えてください。
5. 児童は足踏みの後すぐに曜日を言わなければいけません。できなかった児童は席に座り、次の児童が替わりに言います。しかし座った児童もリズムをとり続けなければいけません。
6.  
   最後まで残った児童が勝ちです。

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