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Greetings - I did play Millionaire very successfully with 5th grade the
last week of school, I got some great ideas from the following responses
and here's my take:
I did call it "Dewey want to be a MIllionaire?" and broke into 7 $
categories : 50,100,1000. 10,000, 100,000, and a Mil. As the kids
entered the room I divided them into boys and girls and then counted off
each child alternately. I had 4 rows of 6 chairs set up facing the two
main seats (along with a cheap silver colored light strobe a girl loaned
me) I randomly called 6 numbers to go to the front row as my fastest
fingers. The other kids sat behind. Fastest finger questions were all
based on Dr. Seuss books and the first kid to call the answer came up.
He named his phone a friend and I explained the rules. I had typed up
duplicates of a bout 30 questions with the four possible answeres and I
handed the contestant one, read the thing out loud and we all gripped
our seats waiting for answers. For each move up the ladder I whipped off
a memo paper from a pad I got at the grocery store of enormous $$ bills.
The jkids loved it! (I hid 100,000 grand candy bars out of sight for the
millionaires~) We LOVED this game! A must do!!! here are responses to
my request - have a happy /Summer and stay cool!
Patty Melville MLS - Pittsfield MA elem schools, tunas3@bcn.net
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I played Millionaire quite successfully with my 4th and 5th graders. We
did not have a fastest finger part. I had students who wanted to
participate write their names on a slip of paper. Also on that paper
were the names of two students in the class that they wanted to be their
phone a friends. We did this the class session before we started
playing.
The questions used included library skills and current events. I put
questions in folders designated by money amount. Besides the phone a
friend, the only other lifeline we used was "ask the audience". I only
had 10 dollar amounts instead of the 12 that are on the show. For
prizes I used bookmarks, pencils, candy, posters, cards from SI for
Kids, etc. I hope this helps. Mary Tinley, Indianapolis
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From: "Fitzsimmons" <jfitz77@worldnet.att.net>
I promised my fourth and fifth graders that we would play a "survivor"
game and actually, it was pretty easy to do, they LOVED it and wanted to
play it for the rest of the year. For the mental challenge, I had a set
of encyclopedias on each "tribes" table and they had to look up stuff,
for the physical challenge (and they REALLY loved those) i had one tribe
member from each tribe do mundane things like stand on one leg, hold an
encyclopedia in each arm out at their sides, walk around the library
with a book on their head, I saw the paperwork last night, so I could
look again for more ideas. We used poker chips as "tokens" and their
only prize when they became the surviving tribe was to leave the library
first before the other "tribes"!!! Amazing what turns kids on!
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From: Nichols5@aol.com
I all ready play this in the library. For the fast finger question I
have some questions written down and the students jump up when they
have the answer. I made the game up by using poer point and have
library questions designated with dollar values. I wrap up a candy bar
and relabel it $1,000,000 and that is the grand prize. The audience is
the class and phone a friend is the office staff. Anyone who helps is
rewarded with smarties. Pam Nichols
------- From: Diane Mentzer <dmentzer@cvn.net>
I played Millionaire last year, we called it be a Bookionaire. I picked
5 students at random and gave each a clipboard. On a large sheet I had
4 dewey numbers, or 4 author names, etc, for them to put in order -
alphabetical, shelf, etc. the first one finished stood, the rest of the
class were the judges. We let everyone finish, then gave the correct
answer and checked. If the first person was correct they went into the
hot seat, if not we checked the second person, etc. Once in the hot
seat I would ask the questions. I had different baskets of questions
for different levels, each getting harder. Depending on the level the
student was on I would pick a question out of the basket, making it
equal for all. I would actually hand the student the question after I
read it so they could have it in front of them as they thought of an
answer. I made the questions from library skills, books, fairytales,
folktales, nursery rhymes, etc. I then had different prize boxes. You
needed to answer 3 questions to get a prize from
the first prize box, then we continues with 3 from there. 6, next level,
9 next level and 12 the top. The prize boxes started with level 1 being
items such as bookmarks, level 2 were small animals, games, pencils,
etc. Level 3 were things that were more expensive like erasers, fancy
pens, toys, etc. and Level 4 was a free book - I used the books I get as
profit from bookfairs, etc. The students had the option of taking
something from a lower prize box, but you could not go up. If a student
did not make it to atleast the first level they could have another
turn. Anyone who progressed
above the first prize level could not have another chance until everyone
in the class had a chance - this never happened. It was a lot of work
and I was wiped out by the end of the 2 weeks, but the kids loved it, it
was a great way to end school and really made lesson plans easy. I did
not do the phone a friend, but I did allow them to ask the audience - we
did a raised hand vote on the answers. There was no 50/50 either. Hope
you have fun! Diane Mentzer dmentzer@cvn.net
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"Mary P. Sundberg" <sundberg@ntcnet.com>
I've done the millionaire game at the end of the year for review for the
last few years. I made up the game using power point. If you would like
acopy of the game I could snail mail it to you...do you have powerpoint?
Ifnot I would add that extra file that allows you to use it without
actually having the program. I do do a fastest finger and the winner is
the "captain of the team" that keeps the scores and makes the final
decisions on the life lines. I would explain better if you were
interested.
This year I did a jeopardy power point. Lots more work and I thought
it would go over well. It didn't. I had trouble between teams,
distinguishing who "rang the bell in first" and it ended up being more
of an argument rather than fun. I am going to ask our tech department to
work on some kind of light signal for next year. I could send you that
on disk too if you want (along with the directions I got when I went to
the workshop to learn how to do it! 8-) ) Let me know. It might be
something you could work on for next year. Mary Me again about the
millionaire game...I was just reading a professional book I just got in
called "Dewey and the Decimals" by Paige Talor et al. and in the back
she has an activity called "Dewey want to be a millionaire?" I thought
it was great and my change my name to it......bye for now. Mary
Mary Sundberg, LMS Poland Elementary Poland NY 13431
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"Hassell, Kristi" <khassell@elkins.k12.ar.us>
We played millionaire last year with teachers, and the teacher in charge
used a sentence chart or pocket chart (from any teacher supply) and
wrote the questions and answers on sentence strips. It made changing
the questions quick and easy and everyone could see. We also got to use
50/50 and ask the audience. We also used a quiz bowl buzzer system. By
the way, I won. It pays to be a librarian.
Kristi Hassell Library Media Specialist Elkins Elementary
School
P.O. Box 322 Elkins, AR 72727
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