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School nr.85 Prof.V.BunescuIEarn Project
Daniela St.Clair

• The most popular childrens games

Participants St. John's School (Dallas, TX, USA)
Fundacion Santa Maria(Bogotá, Colombia)
School NR. 85(Bucharest, Romania)
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Children from Bucharest, Romania
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Children from Bogotá, Colombia
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Children from Dallas, Texas
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The most popular childrens games

• Children around the world have one thing in
  common they love to play games. Discover how
  the American, Columbian and Romanian children
  spend their free time, what are their most
  favourite games and how they play them!
•  This project was sponsored by Ms. St.Clairs
  5th graders from a school in Bucharest, Romania
  and our partners were 2 schools from Dallas,
  Texas and Bogota, Columbia.
•  I would like to thank again my colleagues and
  children from Dallas and Bogota for their nice
  contributions to our project and hopefully, by
  sharing their games, our children will be much
  closer!Life is a game lets play it!

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Game Survey

1. Do you like to play video games?

Romania
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Game Survey
2. How many hours a day do you play video games?
Colombia
Romania
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3. Do you prefer individual games or group games?

Romania
Colombia
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4. Do you prefer indoor or outdoor games?
Colombia
Romania
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5. What are the most common childrens games in
your country?

• Colombia
• Hide and seek
• Freeze Tag
• Cops and robbers
• Teams
• Soccer
• Basketball
• Dominoes
• Chess
• Puzzle

• Romania
• Hide and seek
• Tag
• The ducks and the hunters
• Soccer

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• BLACK MONSTER outdoor game (by Miriam)
• Mother talks to Black Monster and both fix an
  hour (for example x) when Black Monster will
  come. Children don't know the hour. Black Monster
  stays apart and Mother calls the Children.
• - Children, children come to dinner! -We are
  afraid of Black Monster
• Black Monster appears in the distance and
  Children ask
• -Who are you? -Black Monster. -What do you eat?
  -Man's flesh. -What do you drink? -Man's
  blood. -What is you pillow? -Man's skull.'
• Then all the Children sing, paying attention to
  see when Black Monster comes
• 'Hour 1 came, Black Monster isn't here. Hour 2
  came, Black Monster isn't here,
• Hour x came, Black Monster is here.'
• All Children run and Black Monster after them.
  Who is caught is the next Black Monster. They
  chose another Mother and the game starts from the
  beginning.

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• 2. THE PERCHING TAG outdoor game (by Miriam)
• During the game, the children are free to move
  on the playing area. They must avoid the "leapsa
  ( tag) to touch them when they are on the
  ground. When they are in danger to be touched,
  they must perch on a bench, a box, a tree-stump
  or other objects on the playing area and cry out
  coco ( perched). The child who is touched
  before perching becomes "leapsa ( tag).

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• 3. FLOWERS, GIRLS OR BOYS indoor/outdoor game
  (by Florinel)
• This game can be played by many children. Two of
  the children pick up a number and the others have
  to guess it. When a child guesses the number, he
  is free to choose between flowers, boys or girls.
  For example if he chooses flowers, the first
  two children have to each pick the name of a
  particular flower, asking the child who guessed
  to choose between the two, without knowing who is
  what flower. He, then, forms a new team of two
  with the child whose flower name he picked.
• The same goes for names of boys or girls.

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• 4. ENGLIGHTENED EMPEROR outdoor game (by Ioana)
• This game can be played between at least three
  children. One child is the emperor. The other
  children ask him
• Enlightened emperor, whats the time in your
  kingdom?
• The emperor answers with a frog jump (you have
  to jump like a frog), or ant steps (you have to
  make very little steps), giant steps (very big
  steps) or mamaliga (a typical Romanian polenta
  meal you have to make one or two or three, etc,
  complete turn-arounds), etc.
• The other children who are lined up at the
  beginning of the game have to move towards the
  emperor by using the steps commanded by him. The
  first child who gets at the emperor will be the
  winner.

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• 5. PARADISE outdoor game (by Andra)
• In this game, you need chalk. Make a rectangular
  and divide it into 8 squares. Then, the first
  child takes a small rock and throws it on the
  first square. He jumps on one leg and shoots the
  rock with his other leg to square no. 2. In
  square no. 2, he jumps on both legs and moves
  only one to his the rock. And so on and so forth,
  until the child gets to square no. 6. That square
  will be named Paradise. He has to hit the rock
  over Paradise and the, jump.
• The most important rule is you mustnt touch the
  line with your feet. The rock must go where you
  want it.
• The game is over when al the children finish the
  7 levels. A level is over when you finish the
  rectangular.

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• Borders and bases
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• Number of players from four to 10 or 15
• Outdoor game
• Description of the game
• Players select some places as bases these
  places are usually a landmark such as a school
  yard bench, tree trunk or patch of dirt. In
  order to keep the action fast and fun, players
  establish certain rules, they often has arbitrary
  borders that the players cannot step beyond
  (e.g., a fenced-in back yard, a school yard or
  the end of a street). This prevents players from
  running far beyond the area where the game
  started to avoid being tagged.
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• When a base is touched or stood upon, it grants
  a player invulnerability from being tagged. It is
  usually considered cowardly to spend so much time
  on the base that becoming tagged is impossible,
  so prideful players usually resort to the safe
  haven of "base" only in emergencies. Sometimes,
  players are considered safe if they simply grab
  the hands of someone who is at a base. This is
  known as "electricity", as the safety of the
  player at the base is transferred to the other
  person. The winner is the person who is not
  tagged during the game.

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2.   Freeze tag Number of players from four
to 10 or 15 Outdoor game   Description of the
game Freeze tag varies from normal tag in that
once a player is tagged, he does not become "it"
rather, he is "frozen" and must stand in place
without moving while "it" continues to tag and
"freeze" the other players. Whoever who is the
last to be tagged is the winner. Freeze tag often
includes some mechanism for freeing frozen
players and thus forcing "it" to re-tag them. For
example, if two frozen players can extend their
arms far enough to touch each other (without
moving their feet), they may shout "electricity!"
and become un-frozen.
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• 3. Hide and seek
• Number of players from four to 10 or more
• Outdoor game
• Description of the game
• Hide and seek (sometimes also called hide and go
  seek) is a popular game that is best played in
  areas with lots of potential hiding spots, such
  as a forest or a large house.
• How to play one player covers his/her eyes or
  uses some other method to avoid seeing the other
  players while he/she counts out loud. They he/she
  tries to find the hiding players. The next "it"
  is either the first or the last player found,
  depending on the rules agreed to by the players.

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4. Cops and robbers Number of players from
four to 10 or more Outdoor game Description of
the game Cops and robbers is a game which can
be played by two teams of one player or more.
When played with more than two players, the cops
team typically has more members. At the beginning
of the game the robber(s) must "steal" a
previously assigned object, or touch this. The
cop(s) must then chase and catch the robber(s) by
tagging them. Another way to play is with 2
teams, and one team has to take something of the
cops and the cops have to do some kind of maze
until they sort of know who took it and can't
guess who it is until the end. Then they have to
find it and then figure out who did it then find
them and arrest them.
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• 5. Color Tag
• Number of players from four to 10 or more
• Outdoor game
• Description of the game
• All players stand on one side of a designated
  playing field except for one. This person stands
  in the middle of the field and calls out a color.
  If the color is visible on any person standing on
  the edge, that person or persons must attempt to
  run across the field. If they are caught, they
  must join the original player in the middle and
  attempt to catch other players. When everyone has
  either
• A) Reached the other side safely B) Been caught
  C) Remained where they are because they did not
  have the color
• A new color is called out. This is repeated until
  all players but one are caught. That person goes
  to the middle, everyone else to the edge, and a
  new game is started.

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• 6. CHESS
• Number of players Two or couples
• Description of the game
•  Game of two people played on a board marked with
  black and white squares in whivh each playing
  piece (representing a king, queen, castle, etc)
  is moved according to special rules. The aim is
  to put the other players king in a position from
  which it can not escape (checkmate)
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• 7. DOMINOES
• Number of players Two, three or four
• Description of the game
•  For playing this game it is necessary to have a
  small flat block, mark on one side with two
  groups of dots representing numbers. Players have
  to look for other blocks that have the same
  number of dots that match with the one placed by
  the previous player.

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• 8. SOCCER
•  Number of players Two teams of eleven players
• Description of the game
•  Football is a ball game played between two teams
  of eleven players, each attempting to win by
  scoring more goals than their opponent. Football
  is played predominantly with the feet, but
  players may use any part of their body except
  their hands and arms to propel the ball the
  exceptions to this are the goalkeepers, who are
  the only players allowed to handle the ball in
  the field of play.
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• 9. BASKETBALL
• Number of players Two teams of five
• Description of the game
• Basketball is a ball sport in which two teams of
  five players each try to score points by throwing
  a ball through a hoop.
• 10. CROSSWORD PUZZLE
• Number of players one, two, three, or four
• Description of the game
• The crossword is the most common variety of word
  puzzle in the world. Modern crosswords take the
  form of a square grid of black and white squares
  the aim is to fill the white squares with
  letters, forming words (or word phrases) reading
  across and down, by solving clues which yield the
  words. The black squares (commonly called
  "blanks") have no letters, and are used to
  separate words (all contiguous blocks of white
  squares spell words or phrases).

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• You may see Ms. Duchene and her childrens
  contribution, as a short movie, on this page.