I had a little time to search the Internet before classes, and I found a few riddles my students could do at any level. I had challenged my lowest level class for the day to write three to four sentence animal riddles. They had to write them in their notebooks, and as I checked their homework on the board, I’d write up their best for the rest of the class to solve.
“I am an insect. I drink blood. I like wet places. What am I?” was the best riddle my students made. After they finished all the riddles, I wrote one for them up on the board. I wrote “isisisisisisisisisis” on the board at the beginning of class, but it took them to the end to solve what it meant. They thought it was a very good, funny riddle.
Later, in higher classes, I repeated the same riddle. The middle level students, when told the answer (they didn’t solve it) said they hated me, and thought my riddle was lame. They think everything I do is lame, so I don’t pay much attention to them.
My higher level classes both thought that it was an amusing riddle. I had a few more riddles that went pretty well. I’ll post the answers in shortly in the comments.
Riddle Challenge
1. “isisisisisisisisisis”
2. “I am a man with four or five hands, but I’m normal. How is this possible?”
3. What is something the poor have, the rich don’t need, and if you eat it, you will die?
4. What begins and ends everything?
