Wolf, Wolf, What Time Is It?

Practice numbers, asking the time, and telling time (and give your kids a chance to burn off some energy) with this fun game for the whole class.

Skill Level: Beginning students.

Materials: A large, open space.

Instructions:
Prep: Begin the game by reviewing the hours of the day. Ask the class what time they usually eat dinner. Take a common dinner time and write it on the blackboard.
Game: Students line up against one wall of the classroom and the teacher (in the role of the Wolf) stands against the other with her back to the students.
All together the students ask, “Wolf, wolf, what time is it?” The Wolf responds with an hour (”It’s four o’clock!”) and the students take that many steps towards the wolf, counting each step out loud. If the Wolf says either “It’s dinner time!” or whatever time the class said that they eat dinner (e.g. “It’s six o’clock!”), the Wolf then chases the students back to the wall where they started the game. Any students who are caught are eaten by the Wolf for dinner. (”Yum! Yum! Yum!”)
The winner of the game is the be the first student to touch the Wolf, at which point the game resets and the winning student gets to be the Wolf.
Note: Do what you can to keep the kids from touching each other while running back to the wall–if there’s shoving the game can get dangerous!