1. 11th Primary School
of Alexandroupoli

2. In order to choose who is going to start first we use many
ways, most of which are in the form of rhymes.
One goes like this: Akata-macata-sukutu-pe
ave –tave –domi-ne-
akata-makata-sukutu-pe
ave –tave –vge (it doesn‟t mean anything in Greek)
Children stand in a circle and one of them becomes the
“Mother” who says the rhyme above.
Every “word” refers to a different child so the one who
gets the last one “vge” starts first.

3.  Children stand in a row one next to the other
(usually more than 6 children)
 The first one thinks of a word and whispers it into the
ear of the child next to him/her quickly.
 Every child does the same thing. They can‟t repeat the
word . Everyone whispers the word that they think
they have heard.
 The last child in the row says the word loudly but most
of the times it ends up a totally different word from
the first one!!

5. Rules:
Following the procedure mentioned above , one child
becomes the king.
The others say all together:
King, oh, King
with the 12 swords,
What work?
He answers: laziness!
They say: Laziness? Time for work!
He replies: What work?
Then the king mimes a certain kind of work or a job.
The child who guesses first what he does, becomes the king.

8.  The children are divided into 2 teams. One of
them tosses a coin and the team that wins,
starts first.
 They put the 9 broken brick pieces one on top of
the other in the middle of a circle they have
marked on the ground (about 2.5 m in diameter)
 The two teams stand in two lines one next to the
other in a distance of about 5 m from the stones
 The team which starts first throws the ball to
the stones and try to knock them down. If they
can‟t do it , the other team tries until somebody
from either team manages to hit the brick
pieces.

12.  When this happens, they scatter the pieces in the
circle
 The team that has lost must try to rebuild the
„tzami‟ in the middle of the circle
 The team that managed to hit the stones take the
ball and try to “burn”-hit all the players of the
opposite team and not let them rebuild it
 If they rebuild it they win
 If all of them are “burnt” before that the other
team wins.