Teaching Concentration

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Concentration

Everyone keeps a steady rhythm together: two slaps on your knees, two claps. One player names a category. Then, going around the circle, each person has to name something in that category in time with the beat. Hesitate, repeat an answer or lose the rhythm and you're out.

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Sit in a circle.

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Practice the rhythm together: slap your knees twice, then clap twice. Keep it going. Answers are said on the two claps.

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Call a category

The first player calls out a category on the claps: "Fruits!"

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Answer on the beat

The next player names something in the category on the next two claps: "Mango!" Then the player after them, and so on around the circle.

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Miss and you're out

Miss the beat, repeat an answer or say something that doesn't fit, and you're out. Keep clapping along anyway.

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New category

The next player still in starts a new category, and the rhythm keeps going.

How to win

The last player still in wins.

that's it!

Go play.

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