Olympic

ELL



World Games






China
How to Play Ping Pong

Step 1. If you want to play ping pong, you will need a partner to play with.  So get a partner to play with.
Step 2. You will need a table that has a small net in the middle.  You will also need two paddles for your partner and you. 
A small solid while ball will also be needed.
Step 3. You both get on the end of the table.  The server has to hit the ball over the net by bouncing the ball on your side and over the net.
Step 4. The other person has to try to hit the ball over the net the same way it was on in step 3.
Step 5. You both continue the steps 3 and 4 until one person misses the ball and the other person gets a point.
 Have fun!



4th grade


Gabon

Songo Game

How to play this game is there are two people one each side.
The point of the game is to try to get the beads in the holes that are all the way to the left and right.
You get points by moving them down. 




5th grade
The below information was found at
http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Songo_Ewondo

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.

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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.





Ethiopia


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. We toss 5 stones (jacks) in the air
2. We turn our hand over and catch them on the back of the hand.
3. Then we throw the ones up on the back of our hand and gather the the ones that are on the ground. 
4. Then we throw the stones down again.
5. We need to pick up one stone so we throw one stone in the air and grab one stone.
6. Then we need to pick up two stones.  So we throw one in the air and grab two stones.
Then three, then four.
7. We keep doing this until we miss.
8. Then it's the other person's turn.
We win when we have all 5 stones in our hand.



1st grade



Indonesia


Coins Game

Materials Needed-Coins 

 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!


3rd grade



Mexico


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.

The object: is to get as many points as possible .

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.?

Facts:   It is just like playing Bingo but with images. 
Some images are a clown, a dizzy man, a clarinet, a bell,
a paloma which is a white bird that is usually seen at a wedding.
In total there are 54 images.

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



Pakistan


Cricket

Step 1: Two teams of eleven with two referees called umpires.
Step 2: An oval shaped field (diameter of 350 yards.
Step 3: You will need a cricket bat, a field, 2 wickets, a ball, 11 players on 2 teams, 2 bats, 1 pitcher, and a crowd.
Step 4: In the middle of the field there is a pitch.  A pitch is a hard, flat strip of dry ground. (22 yards long)
Step 5: Two bats men are at the pitch at a time, both at different ends with one facing the delivery of the ball from the pitcher.
Step 6: There is a crease at either end.  This is a line marked about 4 feet in from either end of the pitch.  This is used for two reasons.
1) To keep your place to where you have to be.
2) Also to see if you got 1 run or not.
Step 7: The pitcher runs up to the wickets to stop and throw the ball, actually to roll the ball.
The batter also has to stop at the other wicket as well.
Step 8: If the bats man hits the ball then he will have to run to the wicket in front of him/her while the players on the pitcher's team gets the ball.
PS. If you don't know about wickets look at this info.
Wickets are stumps made out of wood.




5th grade



Somalia
      
Sosh

Materials Needed
Rock and Cup

Somalia children play the game Sosh.
 The rules are that you get a rock and try to hit the cup.
 If you hit the body of  the person you are out. 
Then the next person plays. 



5th grade
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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.





2nd grade

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Shax

We meed 2 people.
  We need  24 seeds.
Divide the seeds.
Object of game is to make a JARE.  (3 in a row)

The person who makes the Jare can then remove 1 seed  that the other person put on the board.
Continue until one player has removed all but 2 seeds of the other player's seeds off the board or all moves are blocked.






1st grade




Uzbekistan



 Lapta. 

We play Lapta in Uzbekistan.
I throw a ball. 
My number 2 friend catches the ball.
My number 3 friend tries to catch the ball.




Kindergarten


Viet Nam

Battle of the Chicken
In Vietnam adults play Battle of the Chicken.  First you get two chickens that are mad.  Next, you tie little knives on their legs and beaks.  Then you go to a place, usually a market,  with lots of people and ask people to bet on the chicken they think will win.  Finally, you watch to see which one wins.  The people who bet on the winning chicken can take home some money. 





4th grade

United States

Hopscotch



This is how I play Hopscotch.
 It is like this. I draw squares and it has numbers.
 Then I throw the rock.  I get it back by hopping to it. 



Kindergarten