Here's a pass the bomb game that I made, combining Unit 8, Listen & Talk 1 and 2 (Redone from a different lesson made by user annekat - whose stuff I love, btw! Thanks to her!)

This looks great!  Thanks so much. It's so difficult sometimes to get my 3rd graders to speak, but this ought to do the trick.

Grade 2 Chapter 9
Listen and Speak 2
"Are you interested in ... ?"

Here is a running diction for Grade 2.  First go over the dialogue.  It's not hard, but my teachers specifically asked me to cover it.  Then, to get the students up and out of their chairs, you do a running dialogue.  Put the students in groups of 4-6.  (Size doesn't really matter, some students will just repeat).  One student is the Reader and one is the writer.  The reader will go to the "Character Sheets' spread around the room and memorize it.  He comes back to the writer and tells him.  Then they switch.  This way everyone gets to write, memorize, and run around.  The first team to show me their paper completed and with no grammar/spelling errors wins.  If you catch them cheating (same person writing or reading), I take their worksheet and give them a new one. 

It can take some time explaining, but with a little help from a co-teacher it works out no problem. I once had a teacher tell me there was "no way it would work" and then, nicely and with a big smile on my face, showed her she was wrong.  :) 

Hope this helps!

Grade 2 Chapter 6: How does the cat sleep soundly?

Grade 2 lesson 8  Animals Should and Should not

I focused on the language"you should..." and "you should not..." for this lesson.
The power point is about what you should and shouldn't do when you see wild animals- Mountain lions, Sharks, Black bears, and Snakes.

This lesson did not go over as well as I expected, but in each class there were at least a few students who were really into it.

First I went through the power point.
Then for high level classes I had them fill out an animal worksheet in groups.  To check their memory and comprehension.
For the low level classes I skipped that and did the other activity.  I had them write about some one or something they don't like.  How to avoid it, what to do when you see it, and what to do when it attacks.  Many of the students wrote about teachers, parents, and some about bees, and spiders.  some of the things they came up with were funny.

I hope some of you can use this. 

Grade 3 Chapter 8 & 9
Chapter 9: "Do you mind ... ?"  (I think Listen and Speak 2)
Chapter 8: Proverbs

Hello guys. This is my lesson material for Grade 3 Chapter 9.  It's a bit of a combination.

First we practiced the dialogue from Listen and Speak 2 (G3 Ch9 Dialogue practice).  "Do you mind...?"  It helped that the students had gone over it with the Korean teachers in their class first.  Then we played the "pass the bomb" game that cejacobs uploaded.  This worked with 2 out of 3 of my classes. (One class just didn't care about anything so I wouldn't count that as a real strong indication of it not working). 

Then we moved on (or backwards) to proverbs/life lessons (Ch .  There is an easy and hard version.  I tried the hard version with my first two classes, and then had to simplify it because 2 strike out.  I verbally attempted to explain each proverb after the slides...not sure if that was successful, so maybe some amping up (extra pictures or a slide showing the meaning) would be better. 

Hope this helps anyone.  For me, midterms is in 2 weeks so next week is review week. :) 

Quote from: SpencerShambaugh on September 08, 2011, 10:17:30 AM

Grade 3 Lesson 8

To introduce the lesson, I start out by doing my usual greeting, and moving into a warm-up of a task that might take some time.  I am thinking a match stick brain puzzle.  I will put the students in teams of two to do this, and will time them to see who can do it the fastest.  Once each team finishes I will give them their time.  I will then introduce the main phrase for the chapter of "How long does it take you to..." and use this to ask the students how long it took them to complete the task.  I will also give them the proper response of "It takes me...." 

I know this is a bit easier with smaller class sizes, but can easily be adapted with other activities to introduce the concept of "how long it takes'' to do something.  You could come up with a task that the whole class has to complete or something along those lines.

I hope this can help some out there!

Thanks! That's a great idea! My 3rd graders need something to wake them up at the beginning of class.

How do you play the match stick brain puzzle? Whenever I see them in ppt. I am baffled because I can't understand how to play it.

Can someone also tell me how to play "round robin" in the classroom?

Anybody got a review powerpoint/game for Grade 2, lessons 7, 8, 9?
Been struggling to make enough questions to last an entire lesson!

Hey I am going to post my lesson for Ch 7: Small Steps for a Better Tomorrow.

The powerpoints are very simple. I try to use pictures and words to describe "Biomes" and environments (desert, rain forest and arctic). Afterward I have them do a worksheet and then we play a game (KABOOM) where they pull words out of a hat (rainy, humid, dry, sunny, etc) and have to use them in a sentence:

"In the ________ (desert/rainforest/arctic) the weather is (word chosen) and (word they thought of)" If the person gets it right the team gets a point, first to ten wins. One of the cards is KABOOM which lets the drawer take away all the points of any team they chose.

Powerpoint is "so-so" but I feel the worksheet is solid

Does anyone have anything for Grade 1 lesson 9: Somebody Love You, Mr. Hatch ? I can't seem to think of an appropriate game for this chapter. Please and thanks!

First of all, thanks for the ppt and lesson!  It was okay for one class but I explained it better in the second class and it went over well.  But, there's something I have to ask.  I kept the pictures of you and the boybands and there was a debate going on about the 2nd boy band.  Is that Infinite or U-kiss?  The class was divided!  Thanks.

Grade 2 Chapter 9
Listen and Speak 2
"Are you interested in ... ?"

Here is a running diction for Grade 2.  First go over the dialogue.  It's not hard, but my teachers specifically asked me to cover it.  Then, to get the students up and out of their chairs, you do a running dialogue.  Put the students in groups of 4-6.  (Size doesn't really matter, some students will just repeat).  One student is the Reader and one is the writer.  The reader will go to the "Character Sheets' spread around the room and memorize it.  He comes back to the writer and tells him.  Then they switch.  This way everyone gets to write, memorize, and run around.  The first team to show me their paper completed and with no grammar/spelling errors wins.  If you catch them cheating (same person writing or reading), I take their worksheet and give them a new one. 

It can take some time explaining, but with a little help from a co-teacher it works out no problem. I once had a teacher tell me there was "no way it would work" and then, nicely and with a big smile on my face, showed her she was wrong.  :) 

Hope this helps!