Fried Brains and Hand Phones

This was a long week.

Due to testing, 

my kids brains are fried.

So today,

I broke out the “hand phone”

as we played

Who Wants to be a Science Millionaire.

“Hand phone?” you ask?

Don’t tell me you’ve never pretended to

use your hand as a phone before.

What would have been even better 

is if I would have had a banana handy.

But I had already ate mine for snack at recess… 

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As a way to get my kiddos excited to review science

I busted out a powerpoint millionaire game

a teacher had emailed me.

I used my equity sticks to choose a contestant for each question.

They stood up to the challenge.

If they could answer the question without help,

they earned 6 class dollars.

But they also had the option to 

“phone a friend.”

Though I hoped that they could answer each question

without help,

I almost wanted them to phone a friend

just so I could use my “hand phone” and fun phone sound effects.

“Brrrrrrrrrring! This is the host of 

Who Wants to be a Science Millionaire.

Is this _________?

Well I have ___________ on the line and they need your help

to answer this question.  You’ll have 30 seconds.”

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Anyway, you get the idea. 

The kids LOVED it!

I feared they’d lose all control as I turned on my 

game show voice and sound effects.

But they didn’t.

It was so fun!

I love when spur of the moment,

crazy, fun learning happens!

It’s sometimes better than those lessons

that you spend time planning.