Fifth Graders' favorite English subjects and games

As the 2010-2011 school year came to an end, my fifth grade classes (age 11) made a long list of the subjects that we studied this year in English class.  We also made a list of all the games we played as they learned. 

Here are their favorites.

For birthdays, they had to memorize and spell the months and learn ordinal numbers (the first of April instead of April one).  "Snakes" was what they called a game I drew on the board with questions and problems their teams had to solve in each square as they moved from start to finish.   

If they got an answer right, they could shoot a basket and gain extra points for their teams

They made sea animal artworks on the classroom doors, and number games might involve being blindfolded and picking a big number to say or spell, maybe racing with another team.

They used the calendar and practiced identifying holidays by the dates and identified their favorite holidays.

Playing hangman for spelling months and other difficult words was a heated competition (Wazin shows it is bloody!) where the teams really worked together.

This is an age I really enjoy teaching. 
Here is Naa, Ying, Yaa and Ten (Ten lost his parents in the tsunami), posing in front of the book display they arranged, while FaFa plays the educational game Dana donated.