The leaves of the tree flap around. Now You are the one who pick up the leaves again and bring the Spring. :)
And then I gave them 30 seconds to pick up the leaves and stick them on the board.
They picked up and sticked the leaves very quickly. And they took an"-s" and sticked it, too.
The big "-s" snake visited all the words and gave them a photo of itself as a present. And we said the word with "ssssss" at the end because of the snake :D
Wooow! they got tired :D
So, it's song time to relax and have a rest.
we listened to the song and made a little change.
Look, pencils! How many pencils?
One pencil, two pencils, three pencils
bla bla bla..
we sang it together and asked a friend :
how many erasers?
he counted the erasers :)
we asked how many rulers?
he counted the rulers :)
We relaxed and and learnt.
We enjoyed and learnt together.
In the end we create our tree and revised the "how many?" while sticking the leaves to the tree. the result:
:)
before the school:
after the school :
I hope you will also enjoy the way of teaching with this game.
Which one would you prefer most if you were a child?
Pepee ?
or the stick man's family?
Well....
Bang!
I heard you:
You said " PEPEE"
Pepee is a wellknown cartoon character by young learners in Turkey so I chose the Family of Pepee to introduce the family members and "Who is this/he/she" phrase.
I used a popular video to warm up students :
We drew faces on our fingers and sang the song together.
After the song, we met the Pepee's family.
And drew a family tree on the notebooks.
Then, it was the tie for asking and answeing questions.
For this activity I prepared a Pepee cap for the Boys and a Hair band of Pepee's sister for the girls.
I asked the question :
"Who is this?"
Students acted as Pepee or Bebe and answered the questions.
Here is a boy with Pepee cap.
Here is a girl with Bebe's Hair band.
And;
I introduced "he" and "she" and they guessed which one for boys and and which one for girls.
Students were expected to make sentences using "S/He" so I prepared this words.
I split the classroom 6 groups and gave students words from each word group.
Then I asked the question: "Who is This?"
They make sentences using the papers.
They had al ot fun and learnt the sentence structure. Also they saw the diffrence between she-he :)
PS.: You can choose a spokesperson for each group and s/he say the sentences. In this way, you can also practce the pronunciation.(this is an advice by one of my colleagues.)
You can use any well-known chracter to teach family members.
This week I introduced
classroom objects to my students.
I used flashcards,
geniue objects and poster.
We repeated the words
for the correct pronunciation and played a game for the effective learning. I’m
working with young learners so I generally use videos, games songs and etc.
I believe in the
power of the games with young learners.
I’m here with a game
again.
We played and had really fun with the game.
“BANDITS and SHERIFFS”
Here is the original of the game:
1.Split the classroom into two teams.
2.Give each sheriff nd bandit a number.
3.Place the classroom objects in the middle of the teams.
4.Call out and object and say anumber. Eg. Pencil-5
5.Bandits and the sheriff run. If the bandit manage to pick up the object and run back to his place, s/he calls out “I’ve got….”
6.If the sheriff manage to catch the bandit, S/he call out “I’ve caught….”
( I’ve made little change here: Sheriff asked the question “What’s that? The bandit answered: “That’s a ….”)
7.The game continues until all the objects have been stolen.
8.Then 2nd round starts with exchanging roles. ( We drew lots to determine the groups)
Sheriff badges
Number 3- the sheriff and the bandit
Ps:
Be ready for the noise and distruption by the other teachers. Don’t forget to
make the rules clear for all the students before playing the game otherwise
there will be a chaos in the classroom.
With
the morning group we pushed to play outside because of the noise :D
We used the Wheel of fortune for the revison of the previous
year vocabulary.
-Fruit
-School objects
-Animals
-Colors
-Etc….
I didn’t imagine how useful and enjoyable it could be but it
was really useful for the revision.
I decided that It will be a part of my classes.
I loved the Wheel of fortune because it gave a chance for
active participation. I really surprised that all of the 3rd graders were
standing and raising hands for asking the question or giving the answers.
Students also learnt the aimed vocabulary for this unit:
5. One of the students take the dice and throw it.
6. Say the action. eg. "Let's jump"
7. All of them act it and you start singing again: walking .... :)
8. When all the students throw the dice one by one, it's finished.
My energetic 2nd graders really loved it
and now thay can all say an action using "Let's ...."
As I mentioned before I love TPR method especially with young learners so this game is an alternative way of applying TPR in the classroom to teach simple actions.
Hi again :) I have two simple games for the "Colors" subject.
The first one is.....
1. Students choose 5 different colors and put them on the table.
( we used crayons and colored pencils for the activity but it's up to your students. They can use any colored material..)
2. They use a book or notebook as the BINGO card.
3. It's your turn now. You say different colors and students put it on the book/notebook.
4. When s/he put all the colors s/he has chosen, s/he say loudly:"BINGO!"
5. S/he is the winner :)
Simple material but very enjoyable and exiting for especially very young learner such as my 2nd grader :)
Have you ever played SPUD?
Yes, the second is..
I've just adapted it to the "colors" subject. ;)
SPUD
Spud is a popular tossing and catching ball game played by at least 4 players or more. One player has the ball and the others gather around. The player throws the ball straight up in the air, while calling out a name of one of the players. The called player has to try to catch the ball, while the others run away as fast as they can. When the called player catches the ball, he is allowed to throw it back in the air, while calling out another player’s name that then has to try to catch the ball. If he doesn't catch the ball then he has to pick it up and call loudly: "SPUD". Everybody has to freeze. The player with the ball chooses an opponent to hit with the ball and he can take two big hops towards his victim. If he hits his opponent with the ball the opponent receives the letter "S". If he misses or his victim catches the ball, then the thrower gets the letter "S". The penalized player starts the next round by throwing the ball up. As the game goes on, the players receive first S, then P, then U and then D. The first player who receives all four letters SPUD is the loser. A very popular and easy ball game to play with kids.
"The player with the ball chooses a color and calls it out. At that time the other players try to find the color . When they have found it, they have to touch it. While the players are trying to find th color,the player with the ball tries to hit one of the players before touching the color."
