Looking through this chapter trying to come up with an idea, but man this is a depressing chapter!

Its about school events and school trips....which students will miss out on for the rest of the year.
The language is also pretty stale. There's not much you can do with "I'm looking forward to.." which was arguably one of the worst key sentences from last years 2nd grade textbook and "can you make it..."  which is arguably one of the least interesting key sentences from the 3rd grade textbook.

Well, when life gives you lemons, you gotta squeeze everything you can get out of them

Second lesson:

1. Briefly review "I look forward to..
 Introduce Can you make it at ten, underlining "make it" and adding "to the park" before "at ten" while getting the students to work out the meaning.  I'm surprised how long it took actually, but we got there eventually.
2. Listen and Speak #2
For section C I ask concept questions since "Practice with your partner" doesn't fly.  I specifically elicit the meanings for "no problem" (which they know) and "I'm afraid not" (which they don't).
3. I made my own Day Planner activity that expands off of the table in section C. Essentially, each student gets a blank "day planner" worksheet, then has to circulate the room making different plans with other students.  There are seven time slots and they have to find seven different people to schedule activities with, filling out where/what, who and meeting where.

I made it a race by offering a party sized chocolate bar the prize for the first student with a full schedule.  This actually works to get the whole class involved, because the few students who stay seated/aren't interested are bombarded with requests from other students looking to fill their schedules first.  I've also gone soft and offer ABC chocolates to a few runners up.  When most of the planners are filled, I start checking my first completed planner by asking some of the students they've listed under "Who" what they're doing and with whom at that time.  I had a couple instances where students had changed their "appointments" on their classmates, which made things more interesting. 

I'm thrilled with how this lesson has gone, especially since I did something similar with my third years, most of whom felt as though I was asking far too much from them.   Many of my students were even using the target language.
This lesson took between 35 and 40 minutes (almost 10 minutes once just to check through the planners since we got chatty over appointment switching).  It worked out perfectly since my co-teach wanted the rest of the time to catch up on her own material.

Hiya,

Looks like a chose my open class lesson poorly. Here's what I'm doing: a running dictation that gets the students up, running around, speaking and writing. I commiserate with the rest of you. This book, in particular, has taken the worst bits of the previous books.

Blah.

Here is my Lesson 5 A & B
I combined them to give the students more time the next week for the Minute to Win It Games. I decided to do Minute to Win It as a celebration because our school like many other had to cancel their Sports Day. Tweak it the way you like. You can do a Gap Fill for the celebration song in the beginning.

This lesson's theme seems to be about school events.  So, it could be stretched into a lesson about sports or a lesson about some type of festivals.

This is an A-Z game of things students are looking forward to (holidays and activities). The answer should start with the letter of the slide (C = Christmas, S = Sports Day)

From co teacher's computer  Grade 2 : Lesson 5 Art Work : Murals.