Teaching Tip Tuesday- Guess Who!

In late October/ November we start playing one of my favorite games in Kindergarten, Guess Who!
I play it as a class game, it's me against the kids.  I have six games for six tables. I try to buy most of games at Good Will or  second hand stores. One year, parents' bought a set of Guess Who games as a classroom Christmas gift.  

I love the game because the kiddos have to look at detail, form a sentence to ask a question.  They must also use good listening skills to hear what others are asking.

Here's how to play it as a class game..

1. All Guess Who games must be the same.

2.The kids take out the 24 mystery face cards and lay them face up on the 6 tables. (One time I used the gameboard trays and small pictures, that drove me CRAZY. They kept falling out.  I even hot glued them and then the little tray frames broke!) 

3. Teacher chooses one of the small cards as the mystery person and hides it from the kids. Now let's see how many tables can solve the mystery person.

4. One at a time a  kiddo at each table can ask a question.

Example: Does your person have yellow hair?  I answer,  no my person does not have yellow hair.    The kiddos now turn all yellow haired people upside down.

4. So there is no fighting, I mark a kiddo's finger nail red or  blue at a table.  Now I  say, red kids turn over the yellow haired cards and I keep alternating finger nail colors to turn over cards.

5. The game continues like this, until  most tables have only one card up.

I give the tables a point for winning the game.  We play several rounds throughout a period of time.  The kids really like it.   I have many versions of the game which adds fun.