Michiko's Tips and Ideas

  1. This game involves fair amount of talking on the teacher’s part compared with other games.
  2. Play Fine throughout the above steps so they can practice and you can see that they understand. When to play it is marked with (Play Fine).

 

Classroom Ideas: I like to reserve tempo and symbol games for lessons where I might have an extra 5 minutes at the end.  It’s a great way to fit in an introduction of tempos that can be repeated in a follow up class, or introduction of a few new symbols. It’s often in my plans as an “Extended Activity”.  Just make sure to return to it in the next class or two.