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Thanksgiving Bingo

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:43:33 +0000

Thanksgiving is a harvest festival that is celebrated principally in the United States and Canada. In the United States it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, and is a federal holiday (in Canada it is held on the second Monday in October, coinciding with Columbus Day in the United States). Common activities associated with Thanksgiving include a break from work or school, a Thanksgiving dinner, parades, and American football games.

In the United States, Thanksgiving is very much associated with the survival of early English settlers in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with the help of the local Native American population. As result, the run-up to Thanksgiving provides a wonderful opportunity for students to learn about their history. Schools often organize events such as Thanksgiving plays, but individual teachers can also introduce Thanksgiving-activities into their classroom – why not a game of Thanksgiving bingo?

Thanksgiving bingo is played just like a normal game of bingo (with the teacher taking the part of the bingo caller), but, instead of using standard bingo cards, cards printed with words or phrases related to the Thanksgiving holiday are used instead. It can be a lot of fun, and can also help remind students of the history of Thanksgiving.

You might be wondering where you can obtain Thanksgiving bingo cards, but this is actually quite easy – you print them yourself using your computer! You can download ready-to-print cards from the Internet, or if you prefer, you can download bingo card maker software that allows you to print custom bingo cards on almost any topic you like.

By: Sunil Tanna

Printable St Patrick’s Day Bingo Cards

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:37:31 +0000

Most people are familiar with the game of bingo. It is play using bingo cards contain a five by five grid of squares, with each square containing a word or number. Each player is given their own bingo card, and marks off the squares from their card when the corresponding item is announced by the bingo caller. In most games, the winner is the first player to achieve a continuous line of five squares, in any direction (regardless of whether the line is horizontal, vertical or diagonal), and call out “Bingo”. For a longer game, players can aim for larger or more complex target shapes than a single line, for example, two intersecting lines of five squares, a postage stamp of three by three sequares, or even all squares marked off.

In the standard or traditional game of bingo, each of the squares on a bingo card is printed with a different number between 1 and 75. Today however, variants of the game, but using cards printed with words or phrases instead of numbers, are becoming increasingly popular. Using a computer and bingo card maker software, it is dead easy produce custom bingo cards of this type. In fact, the ease of producing custom bingo cards has been one of the main contributing factors to a renaissance in the game’s popularity: teachers are increasingly using custom bingo cards in their classrooms, and themed versions of bingo are also growing in popularity for religious and secular holidays and events.

St. Patrick’s Day is the Irish national holiday, named in honor of one of the patron saint’s of Ireland. It usually falls on March 17th, although the date is moved in those years when March 17th falls within Holy week. The day is used as a celebration for all things Irish, and is of course an excellent opportunity for playing an Irish-themed version of bingo. All you need to do is prepare some bingo cards containing words or phrases relating to Irish history, culture or geography, and you’re ready to play.

By: Sunil Tanna

How to Play 75 Ball Bingo

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:55:14 +0000

Do you love playing Bingo but hate the crowd at the Bingo hall? Maybe you have always wanted to play Bingo but never got around to learning how. Online Bingo may be the solution you are looking for! 75 Ball Bingo is a popular online Bingo game which plays much like traditional Bingo. You have Bingo cards, daubers, and a Bingo Caller. You also have competitors to play against and a jackpot to win!

Here is a list of some of the 75 Ball Bingo terms you will need to familiarize yourself with in order to play and win at the game.

Bingo card:

This is your playing card. It is in a grid format with five blocks across and five blocks down. The word BINGO appears across the top five boxes. Each letter in the word BINGO heads a column. The rest of the cells in the grid are filled with 24 random numbers ranging from 1 to 75. In the middle of the Bingo card is a “free space”. This space is automatically covered and will count as a valid covered cell in any winning pattern.

Patterns:

In order to win the game, you will be required to cover numbers on your card which form a pattern. Each game will have its own determined pattern. This will be displayed in the corner of your screen. Many different creative patterns are utilized, as well as a black out, or total card coverage play.

Bingo Caller:

This is a Game Master who will be responsible for calling the numbers you will use to cover your Bingo cards.

Chat:

A vital component of online Bingo is the ability to “chat” with your online competitors and the Game Master. This is your virtual Bingo hall. You typically will have several chat rooms to choose from, so pick one and join in on the fun!

How to play:

Now that you are familiar with some of the 75 Ball Bingo terminologies, here are some instructions and rules to get you started.

First you must purchase your Bingo card or cards. Then the Bingo caller will begin to call out random numbers attached to the letter B, I, N, G, or O. You will then search down the column of the letter called and look for the coinciding number which was called. If you have the number on your card, you may daub (cover) it. Play will continue in this manner until someone completes the chosen pattern for this game. The first person to complete the pattern will be declared the winner. Easy!

Many times the jackpot amounts will depend on how many Bingo cards have been purchased and the number of participants in that game. Some games may have a set minimum jackpot amount regardless of numbers of players.

75 Ball Bingo is fast becoming one of the most popular online games. With the amount of participants growing each day, so are jackpot amounts. With the rising fuel costs, playing Bingo from the comfort of your own home is a great convenience. You will have the opportunity to meet some online friends who share in your passion for Bingo. So, instead of fighting the sea of overly zealous “I heart Bingo” clad masses at the local Bingo hall, grab your virtual daubers and head to your computer. Troll dolls or other good luck charms optional.

By: Simon Paul Capel

Bingo Worksheet Creator

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:30:40 +0000

Most of us know how to play the game of bingo. Thus, the way to play bingo is probably may already be familiar, but if not, here is a quick recap:

1. Each player is a bingo worksheet (also known as a “bingo card” or “bingo board”).
2. The bingo worksheet contains a grid of squares. Each square usually contains a different number
3. The bingo caller calls out the items printed on the worksheets in a random order.
4. As items are called out, the players cross items off their worksheets. The winner is the first player to achieve a winning pattern of crossed out items on their worksheet (in different versions of the game, different winning patterns may be used).

Although of course the standard game of bingo is well-known by many people, and played by many as a leisure activity, what is not so widely known is that modified versions of bingo can be of great use in education. In fact, bingo is becoming increasingly common in classrooms, and can be used as a teaching aid in a number of K-12 subjects including reading, vocabulary, math, foreign languages and even science and history, as well as in adult education, in for example English as a Second Language (ESL) classes.

The common element in most educational versions of bingo is the use of modified bingo worksheets. Instead of the standard worksheets that contain numbers, the teacher creates, ahead of class, worksheets that contain items chosen for the lesson. In the math class, the items might still be numbers, but the numbers are the answers to problems called out by the teacher. In a language class, the worksheets might be printed with Spanish or French words, which the students must match to calls made in English by the teacher. Really there are almost endless possible variations, and innovative teachers are inventing new ones all the time.

You might think that this is all very well, but where can the special customized bingo worksheets be obtained. Obviously, it would not be a good use of a busy teacher’s time to spent a lot of time manually preparing a worksheet for each student. Fortunately, there is an answer – a PC and some bingo worksheet creator software can make light work of printing worksheets on any theme that the teacher chooses.

By: Sunil Tanna

Bingo Cards Generator

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:37:36 +0000

Most adults are familiar with the game of bingo. Most of us have either played it ourselves, or at least seen it played. For those few people who have not, the rules are simple and easily learned – you are given a bingo card which is printed with a grid of numbers, and cross off squares as the numbers are called out by the bingo caller – the goal is to be the first person to achieve a winning pattern of crossed out squares (the exact definition of the a winning pattern varies depending on the variant of the game being played).

One thing that you may not have considered however is because bingo is so simple, it can be played by children, and with just a few modifications can easily be adapted into a powerful but flexible learning aid. Many teachers have noticed this (not to mention the fact that bingo does not require expensive materials or specialist resources), and thus have introduced variants of the game into their classrooms. Today bingo is being used to teach a variety of K-12 school subjects including English (vocabulary, reading, etc.), math, foreign languages, and even science and history.

In most classroom variants of bingo, the game is played using bingo cards printed with items chosen by teacher. Additionally, game play may be modified somewhat. For example, in a vocabulary version of bingo, the bingo cards contain words that the teacher wants students to learn, the teacher calls out definitions of words rather than the words themselves, and the students must match the definitions to the words. Similar ideas can be used for reading practise, math problems, and foreign languages (calling out words in one language and require students to match printed words in another).

The main requirement for all these educational variants of bingo is the ability for the teacher to give each student a bingo card with items appropriate for the particular lesson. Fortunately this is quite easy – a PC and some bingo cards generator software can print a set of bingo cards containing whatever types of items the teacher wants, in just a few minutes.

By: Sunil Tanna

Bingo Worksheets Creator

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:15:16 +0000

It is probably fair to say that most people know how to play the game of bingo. It’s a simple and easy to learn game that involves crossing squares off bingo worksheets (also known as “bingo cards” or “bingo boards”) as items are called out, in random order, by the bingo caller.

While many of us have played the standard game of bingo, what you may not know is that many variants of bingo are now being used in today’s classrooms. Bingo is in fact being used as a teaching age for a variety of K-12 school subjects including English (particularly reading and vocabulary), math, languages such as French, Spanish and German, and even geography, history and science. Furthermore, versions of bingo are also being used in some adult education courses such as English as a Second Language (”ESL”) classes.

The main difference between education variants of bingo and the standard game is that specialized bingo worksheets are used. These contain items chosen by the teacher and specific to the subject or lesson, instead of the usual numbers found on bingo worksheets. In an English class they might contain items of vocabulary (the teacher calls out definitions, the teachers must match them to words), in math class, they might be answers to math problems read out by the teacher, and so on.

So the key requirement for a teacher who is considering introducing bingo in their classroom is this custom bingo worksheets. Obviously, it would not be a good use of class preparation time to write out a worksheet for each student by hand, but fortunately there is an answer – using a PC and some bingo worksheets creator software, the worksheets can be made very quickly and with very little effort.

By: Sunil Tanna

Chemistry Bingo Cards

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:31:38 +0000

Science has an image of being about theories, laws and mathematical formulas. As a result, we don’t always think about studying science subjects, we can easily forget they also involve learning many facts and details. Chemistry is in fact well known for the amount of facts that students studying the subject need to be familiar with. This includes, for example, the names, symbols and properties of elements, chemical formula, and of course the terminology that chemists uses to describe various chemical reactions and processes.

Students who don’t know the key facts of chemistry (such as names of elements, etc.) will of course struggle with the subject, so good teachers tend to seek out ways to assist their students in learning these essentials. Fun, engaging and enjoyable classroom activities offer one of the best ways to learn, so many teachers actively seek out new activities for their students. Educational games turn out to be one of the most popular, and effective, classroom activities. And, one of the most popular educational games is in fact bingo.

Bingo is an almost ideal game for educational situations. Partly this is because almost everybody already knows how to play the game, and those few who don’t can quickly learn how, as well as the fact that the game can be adapted to teaching almost any subject, including chemistry, by using bingo cards printed with squares containing the items being taught, instead of numbers. Also, the game of bingo has the advantage that it does not require expensive specialist materials, which is very important given the financial constraint that teachers work under these days.

To play bingo in the classroom, the teacher plays the part of the bingo caller, each student is given a bingo card, and then you play the game. Of course, the teacher has the option of modifying the style of play if she wants, for example by encouraging classroom dicussion after items are called out, or by requiring students to describe the items that they have marked off from their cards.

Of course, if you’d like to play chemistry bingo in class, you will need to get some bingo cards printed with items related to chemistry. The easiest way for a teacher to obtain such bingo cards, is simply by printing them from her computer. This is simple enough even for computer novices, because of the availability of ready-to-use bingo printables that are available online, and of easy-to-use bingo card printing software, which can print any types of bingo cards that you might need.

By: Sunil Tanna

Phonics Bingo

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:32:11 +0000

Phonics is a popular method of teaching children to read that is based around the child learning to connect sounds with letters or groups of letters. For example, the child would learn that the hard “k” sound is associated with the letters “c”, “k” or “ck”. To be fair, using phonics as a method of teaching reading has not been without controversy, particularly in the United States of America, at least since the mid 19th century, and especially since the reemergence of phonics in the 1950s.

Those teachers who do use phonics, generally use them in a variety of different classroom activities, not just when students are reading from books or writing. For example, phonics and phonics-based skills can be incorporated into many different classroom activities and educational games, including, for example, bingo.

Phonics bingo is played like the traditional game of bingo: Each player (student) is given a card containing a five by five grid of squares, and aims to mark of a line of items (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) in response to items called out by the bingo caller (teacher). The different however between phonics bingo and traditional bingo, is that the cards, instead of being printed with numbers, are printed with words appropriate to the subject of the lesson. Additionally, game play may be modified in a variety of different ways.

Some ideas for phonetics bingo include:

1. Partial word bingo – The teacher says something like “find the word with ‘pin’ in it”, in response to which the students would have to find “spin”.

2. Blending bingo – The teacher reads out a word slowly, for example “sss-nnn-aaa-p”, and the students must find the corresponding word.

3. Rhyming bingo – The teacher reads out a word, and students need to find the word that rhymes with it.

4. Silent E bingo – The teacher reads out a word like “pin” and asks what what word you would get by adding an E.

It should also be remembered that phonics is not a complete solution to learning reading. Students must also learn to recognize some common words which can not be sounded out (the most common list of such words is known as Dolch Sight Words). Many teachers also emphasize learning to sight read other common words (such as “is” or “it”) as this can improve reading fluency. Therefore as well as playing phonics bingo, you can also play sight word bingo in class.

By: Sunil Tanna

Bingo Worksheets Generator

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:11:00 +0000

Most people are familiar with the game of bingo. The idea of the game is simple: each player is given a bingo worksheet (or “bingo card” or “bingo board”) containing a grid of squares (each square usually contains a different number), and the goal is to cross out numbers as they are called out by the bingo caller, hopefully being the first to achieve a winning pattern or line (what is considered a winning pattern may vary depending on the rules being used).

One thing that you may not know however is that there are many variations on the basic game of bingo, and these have been applied for a variety of educational purposes. Bingo is in fact an excellent tool that can be used to help teaching reading, vocabulary, math, science and many other K-12 subjects, and also is of use in teaching English as Second Language (”ESL”).

The common theme in most educational variants of bingo is a requirement for custom bingo worksheets. This is because the bingo worksheets are printed with items chosen by the teacher and specific to the particular subject in question. For example, in a game of math bingo, the worksheets might be printed with numbers that are the answers to math problems called out by the teacher, in a game of foreign language bingo, the bingo worksheets might be printed out with French or Spanish words (the teacher makes the bingo calls in English), and so on. You might assume that creating custom bingo cards for every student in a class is a lot of time-consuming preparation work for teachers, but you would be wrong – it’s actually very easy to print custom bingo cards with the help from a computer and some bingo worksheets generator software.

By: Sunil Tanna

Fractions Bingo Cards

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:27:45 +0000

Today’s teachers are no longer satisfied with rote learning and boring classroom activities. As a result, fun, engaging and challenging educational activities are very much in demand, and one such activity that has become extremely popular in recent years is bingo. This is because bingo is ideally suited to educational environments – apart from being enjoyable, it’s very easy to play, it’s extremely flexible and adaptable, and it doesn’t require lots of expensive materials or specialist resources.

The traditional version of bingo is played using bingo cards containing a 5 X 5 array of numbers. Each players goal is to try to get a line (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) of items marked off their card – they mark off items as they are called out by the bingo caller. Educational versions of bingo use broadly the same rules (although teachers may of course vary the rules if they wish), but the bingo cards are instead printed with items specific to the particular subject or lesson – for example, place names in a geography class, historical figures in a history class, authors or book titles in an English literature class, and so on.

While it is true that bingo is can be used in many different subjects, one subject where it has proven especially popular with teachers is math. Usually math teachers will use bingo cards containing math problems, and ask the students to write in answers to these questions (as the questions are called out), but that isn’t the only way to play. You could use bingo cards containing numbers which serve as the solutions to various math questions – when the teacher calls out a math question, students must mark off the square containing the solution. Another idea when teaching fractions and/or decimals is to have cards containing the same number written in different ways – when a teach calls out “a half”, students may tick off a square containing 0.5, 2/4, 3/6, 4/8 or any other other representation of a half, regardless of format or base.

If you’re a teacher and want to use bingo in your classes, then obviously you’ll need to get the appropriate bingo cards. There are specialist publisher who offer preprinted materials, but these are sometimes expensive and also limit your choice of items and themes to those chosen by the publisher. It would be a lot more flexible if you could print the cards yourself – and installing some bingo card maker software on your PC will allow you to do exactly that.

By: Sunil Tanna