Touch 3, Then Me is a simple activity which can be used and adapted to match current learning. It can be used from Early Level on.
How to Play
- Gather pupils and explain that we will be doing a very active game involving lots of running.
- ‘How will we look after ourselves and others during the game?’ Children’s responses will help you create a simple risk assessment (We might trip so we have to look where we are going. We don’t want to get lost so we don’t go around the side of the building where adults can’t see us. ) In doing so, you are covering HWB 0-3-16a and helping pupils to assess and manage risk.
- Agree on a signal for pupils to gather – perhaps an adult pointing at the sky.
- Set the challenge – ‘I want you to find, touch and report back on something living, something no longer living, something never living.’ (Sciences)
- Pupils touch the objects and report back. The learning is in the discussion about the answers – ‘Is the wooden bench really something that has never been living? Where does plastic come from?’
Alternative Challenges
Literacy
Develop vocabulary and descriptive skills – something rough, something smooth, something soft
Again, discussion and prompting to extend the thinking is essential. Develop and allow pupils to provide the challenge descriptions, ‘Find something ….’
MNU in the Real World –
- an acute angle, right angle, straight angle
- something longer than 10 cm, shorter than 1m, equal to the length of your thumb
- a circle, a rectangle, a square
