Pictionary Relay

Many of my students enjoy the game Pictionary so I will break the class into two teams.  Each team had one artist drawing the same vocabulary word with their teammates trying to be quickest to write down the correct word on their personal whiteboards.  The problem was kids would just look at whichever drawing was better which just didn't seem fair.

The relay system has one student per team pulling a card out of their team's envelope.  The artist shows me the word and sets to work.  As soon as all of his or her teammates have the correct word or phrase on their whiteboards, the card gets put in the discard pile and someone new hurries to the main board for a new word.  The game continues until all cards for one team have been guessed.

Coleccionar las piedras (to collect rocks/stones)

I like this game because the words the two teams are working on are different.  It is a little more hectic for me to keep track since there are two different words being guessed at the same time, but I think the trade-off is worth it.  More students seem involved in this version.