Brief Outline: A cat chases mice around a gameboard while practicing forming noun plural sentences.
Materials Needed:
- CatAndMouse attachment: The second page of the worksheet has a picture of a cat and mouse. You will need to copy/paste as many cats and mice as you need.
- Dice: Enough for each group
Detailed Explanation:
- After splitting the class into groups, have the students play Janken and the loser is the 'cat', everyone else are mice. The cat starts on the cheese, while the mice start on the Start square.
- Play starts by everyone, except the 'cat', rolling the dice and the highest number starts. The first student rolls the dice and moves. The square they land on, they form a sentence using the following pattern: "I have three apples."
- NOTE 1: The 'cat' doesn't ever roll the dice. The 'cat' automatically receives two movements on its turn.
- NOTE 2: All mice can only move horizontal or vertical, whereas the cat can move diagonal as well.
- If the cat catches a mouse, the mouse goes back to the start line. If a mouse reaches the cheese, they become the cat.
Teaching Suggestions:
- If the cat is moving too fast, only allow the cat to move one space.
Comments:
- (Sept 16, 2011) Cade said: I took the way I played it was that the number the mouse rolled was the number of squares the mouse could move. After each mouse had a turn the cat could move one square. This worked best if there were four mice. It seemed to work well using this method allowing the mice to escape if they rolled large numbers but get caught if they rolled small. I also adapted the game for the next grammer point of `how many....` making the cat ask the question to each of the mice regarding the square they land on, eg. `how many apples do you have`. Because of this I didnt make the cat say sentences about the square they landed on to keep the game flowing. Hope this helps someone, great game but took a while to explain and get it rolling, Id say you need 25mnins minimum.
- (Sept 7, 2011) Nate said: I'm still waiting for an explanation!!! PULL YOUR FINGER OUT!!!
- (Mar 22, 2011) Bexinkyushu said: I played this with my ichinensei and they loved it! Some kid wanted to keep playing after the bell. Thnanks for a really great game!
- (July 28, 2010) englipatrick (mod) said: I cleaned up the explanation a bit in the game details. Also, Raymond Corrigan's explanation below is worth a quick read. BTW, Raymond, I added the "cat and mouse" images to the attachment on this page.
- (July 7, 2010) Raymond Corrigan said: I assumed that the mouse/cat can move as many times as the number on the dice. This worked well.
2 spaces for the cat seems too powerful, but one space is well balanced when playing against 3 mice. The ability to move diagonally is already a big speed advantage. - (July 2, 2010) Theresa said: Yeah, I have the same question as Nate asked below. I`m not quite sure how the dice fit into the game either. I also really want to try this game, but I would like to know how the dice works when "the first student rolls the dice and moves." Thanks!
- (May 20, 2010) Nate said: How do dice fit into the game if "Mice can only move one space horizontally or vertically."? Just curious, the game looks good I just want to make sure that I am not missing something. Thanks
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