Quote from: CurlyQue on October 15, 2014, 02:06:30 PMMy first contribution to waygook! I'm posting because my CoT loved this activity. It's like the only one she's ever verbally expressed appreciation ofSo I took the Today is Monday video/song and made 14 cards. 7 cards say each day of the week and 7 cards say the food that's associated with it in the song. 1. First, the students receive a card and listen to the song to discover their match. "Monday, strings beans." 2. After the song, students stand up and try to find their partner (Students with Monday card look for students with string beans card, Tuesday looks for Spaghetti, etc.)3. Students sit down with their new partner and we listen to the song a second time.4. When the students' day/food appears in the song, they sing that part "Thursday, roast beef." If you have more than 14 students, just double up. You can have groups of 3 or even 4 singing "Saturday, chicken!" etc.Hope this helps someone! And that I gave a clear explanation...Thanks for the idea CurlyQue! Last year I couldn't figure out what to do with the song so my students just learned to sing the song. I tried this in class today as our listening activity for part 1, and it was a huge hit!Here's how I did it:1. Play the song so the students can listen (don't show the video).2. Give each student a card and tell them they cannot speak once they've received the card.3. Play the song again and the students walk around and quietly try to find their matching food/day partners. When they are sure they have formed their group they come to the teacher and the teacher seats each group in their seating section (they sit in order of the days).4. Watch the video and sing the song as CurlyQue did. Except whenever it was "All you hungry children come and eat it up" all of the students sang together.I have 24-26 students per class so I created 2 cards for each day and 2 cards for each food. Then, I took out as many cards as necessary to match the number of students in the class. When I did this, I made sure that I wasn't taking out both a Monday and a string beans card (only one from each group). I've attached the cards I made for anyone who would like to use them! I just printed a color set of these then glued them to thick construction paper before cutting them to hand out. That way I can use them for all my classes.
My first contribution to waygook! I'm posting because my CoT loved this activity. It's like the only one she's ever verbally expressed appreciation ofSo I took the Today is Monday video/song and made 14 cards. 7 cards say each day of the week and 7 cards say the food that's associated with it in the song. 1. First, the students receive a card and listen to the song to discover their match. "Monday, strings beans." 2. After the song, students stand up and try to find their partner (Students with Monday card look for students with string beans card, Tuesday looks for Spaghetti, etc.)3. Students sit down with their new partner and we listen to the song a second time.4. When the students' day/food appears in the song, they sing that part "Thursday, roast beef." If you have more than 14 students, just double up. You can have groups of 3 or even 4 singing "Saturday, chicken!" etc.Hope this helps someone! And that I gave a clear explanation...