For this counting game, place the children in a circle and give them all a laminated cutout of a fish tank. Put a bowl full of fish crackers or miniature toy fish in the middle. The children take turns rolling a die. The number they roll is the number of fish they can take from the bowl and place on their fish tank. The first child who fills his tank with at least 20 fish wins. To make it more difficult if it's the end of the year and your children are good at addition and subtraction, tell pupils they must have exactly 20 fish to win and cannot go over. So if a child has 19 fish in his bowl but rolls a 4, he cannot win because he has too many fish. He must wait his turn until he rolls a 1 to get 20 exactly and win the game.
Place wooden letter blocks all around the classroom in visible and reachable places. Tell the children that someone has stolen a letter in each of their spelling words and they must find it to complete the words. For example, if the word is "apple," write "APP_E" on the board and put up a picture of an apple next to it. When you say go, the children race off to find the missing "L" and bring it back to the circle first. The child who brings back the letter wins the word. The person with the most words off the spelling list wins. The game does not have to be competitive, though. You can have the children take turns hunting for the letter while the rest of the class cheers on that person.
For this game, tell the children you spy something in the room, but spell out the word instead of saying it. For example you can say, " I spy a C-L-O-C-K. It tells me when to take you to lunch." Spell the word a few times slowly for the children to write and figure out. Some children may need only the clue. Ask the pupil who gets it right to repeat the spelling of the word.
For this math game, give each child five cards with answers to simple addition problems on them. Instruct the pupils not to show their cards to each other. Write an addition problem on the board. The pupils must count and then look at their cards to see if they have the answer. If they think they have the answer, pupils should cover the card with their hands and put a finger to their lips as if to say "quiet." Call "secret's out!" and have the children raise the card with the number. If they are correct, they throw that card out. The game continues until a child has no cards left, making her the winner.