Songo is played on a mancala board of 2 x 7 holes. These holes are called "nda" ("house"). At each end there is a big store for the captured counters. Each house contains five stones called "songo" ("pebble").
A player controls the row on his side of the board.
Initial Position
On his turn a player distributes the contents of one of his holes, one by one, clockwise into the ensuing houses.
The leftmost hole of a row may only be emptied, if if contains at least three stones unless it would be the only possible move. However, the hole may be emptied, if the move results in a capture or if the opponent has (a) nothing left in his holes and (b) it isn't possible to feed him with three or more stones.
If a hole contained 14 or more stones, it is skipped and all the player's own holes that follow. The remaining stones are only sown on the opponent's side.
If the opponent has no stones left, he must be fed with at least seven stones. If this can't be done, he must get as many stones as possible.
A player must move at his turn.
If the last stone falls in an opponent's hole, which contained one, two or three stones, its contents are captured together with the last stone (ie. two, three or four stones).
If the previous-to-last stone also brought an opponent's house to two, three or four, these are captured as well, and so on.
If 14, 21 or 28 stones were sown, only the last stone can be captured, but nothing else.
When a player has only one stone in his leftmost hole, he gets this stone, but not more.
If a move would capture all the contents of the opponent's row, nothing is captured at all.
The game ends, when a player can't play.
The stones that are still on the board are won by the player who moved last.
The player who captured most counters wins.
If both players captured the same number, the game is a draw.
The Belt Game
Materials Needed
Belt
Music
The Belt Game is when children get in a circle.
The children choose one person to go inside the circle.
The music begins.
A belt is passed around the circle while the music is playing.
The person in the middle tries to get the belt that is being passed around.
When the middle person tags a person with the belt then that person goes into the middle to help the chosen person.
It keeps going
around until one person is left.
2nd grade
Honduras
Jack
Stones
(Similar to Jacks)
Materials Needed 5
stones
1. Play on the hard flat surface floor.
2. Each player puts the coin on the floor
3. The player has to play rock, paper, scissors to determine who plays first, second, and third and so on.
4. The player tries to hit the other coin by poking it.
5. If the coin hits the other coin that coin belonged to him/her he keeps playing to hit another coin.
6. If the first player does not hit another coin, then the second player gets the turn and so on.
7. Whomever gets the
most coins after 15 minutes wins the game!
Soccer
Materials Needed
Soccer Ball- 2 Goals
There are 8 players on each team.
One goalie, 3 defenders, the rest try to make the goal for the team.You have to hit the ball in the opposite goal.
The goals are at the end of the field.
The rules are:
The ball can't touch any part of
your body
only your foot or head.
4th grade
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Loteria
Mexican children play
Loteria.
How to play Loteria.?
1. First you need a
caller.
2. Then you just need to hand out boards.
3. Next you need some pinto beans to put on the boards
4. Then you randomly
pick cards from the deck and you use it in a humorous riddle instead of
reading the card's name.
5. Next you find it on your board
6.. Last you say Buena
when you have pinto beans vertically, (up and down),
horizontally,
(across), or diagonally in a row.
You win!
5th grade
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Hitting
the
Piñata
We hit a piñata dog or star
with a
stick.
It is up on a tree.
Then the lollipops fall down.
My cousins are there .
They have the candy.
My mom eats the candy for me
because I'm not allowed to eat candy.
It is fun!
Kindergarten
5th grade
The Three Dead Men
We need to pass out four cards to each person.
If you want to play the Three Dead Men you have to put one card in the middle and somebody else has to put another card in the middle.
Then you have to add both of the cards to see their total number.
Then you look at the cards in your hand to see if you have that number.
If you don't you can pass, if you do you put the card on top of the middle cards.
10 +10 You have to put a jack or a queen.
If you put a joker in you get all the cards and you win.