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GAME 3: OCTOPUS TREASURE
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GOALS: What Children Will Learn.
(a) Understanding compound words, words that are made from two other words, such as cow + boy = cowboy; (b) Vocabulary: ocean, submarine, octopus, treasure; (c) Knowledge of nature: the underwater world.
TIP: This can be the hardest game. If children are not yet able to answer all the riddles, that's OK. Give them clues and help them practice by playing the game again. |
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BEFORE YOU PLAY THE GAME
• Show Children the Movie of this Game. |
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WHAT YOU NEED:
From the Materials: Underwater Picture, Octopus Puppet, Octopus Question Pictures
From Your Home or School: Small box for the ‘treasure chest’
SET-UP THE GAME:
• Show children the Underwater Picture. Help them point to and explain: ocean, submarine, treasure, octopus and other underwater animals.
• Decorate a small box for the ‘treasure chest.’
• You play the giant octopus. Speak in a big octopus voice. Put Octopus Puppet next to treasure chest or wear it as a necklace. Cover the treasure with eight of your fingers (octopus arms).
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLAYING THE GAME
(1) Tell the Story. Our neighborhood needs money for a new playground. Let's help. We'll try to find a big secret treasure of gold and jewels in a lost ship at the bottom of the ocean.
(2) Change Magic Story Cars into Submarines. We drive to the ocean while we sing the ABC Song. But our Magic Story Cars can't go underwater to get the treasure! Say the Letter ‘T’ (for Treasure) to change our cars into submarines, special boats that can drive underwater.
(3) Drive Submarines Underwater to Bottom of the Ocean. Children Find the Treasure!
(4) The Octopus Guard: But, look! A giant octopus is guarding the treasure under its eight big arms (your eight fingers)! Octopus (you) says: “I'll lift my eight big arms off of the treasure so you can take it, if you can answer all four of my questions.”
(5) Octopus Questions (Show Octopus Questions Pictures to help children answer questions.)
• Question 1: Octopus says: “I'll say a word, listen carefully. The word is cowboy. What two words do you hear when I say cowboy? Help children answer: “Cow and boy.” Octopus says: “If you take cow away from the word cowboy, what word do you have?” Help children say: “boy!” Octopus says “Good,” and lifts two arms (fingers) off the treasure.
• Question 2: “When I say doorbell, what two words do you hear?” Help children say: “Door and bell.” Octopus says: “If you take the word door away from the word doorbell, what word do you have?” Help children say: ‘Bell!’ Octopus lifts two more arms (fingers) off the treasure.
• Question 3: “When I say sunshine, what two words do you hear?” Help children say: “Sun and shine.” Octopus says: “If you take the word shine away from sunshine what word do you have?” Children answer: “Sun!” Octopus lifts two more arms (fingers) off of the treasure.
• Question 4: “Now, the last and hardest question. A pop is a loud noise. What word can you add to pop to make the name of a crunchy food?” Help children answer: “Corn, to make the word Popcorn!” Octopus says “Good!” and lifts its last two arms (fingers) off of the treasure.
(6) Return Trip. Children say “Thank you,” take the treasure, and drive home.
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Play the game again. Ask Octopus Questions with other two-part words
such as: baseball, bathtub, butterfly, playground, shoelace and peppermint.
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