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katsy3g4
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Greetings, all. This week, Thursday, my co-teacher and I will open our English class to some visit student teachers. We are currently teaching the last section of our lesson about prepositions to the 4th grade. We have come up with some good small activities thus far but we keep changing the production activity.
My co-teacher is really great and has been super stressed about having to do this open class. We both really want to make it a good one so I was wondering if anyone has any fabulous preposition lesson that have gone over famously or maybe some friendly ideas. We came up with a plan for a treasure hunt but then learned that forty student teachers were going to be crammed in my room for the class, leaving no space. The back of the room as well as the sides are unusable. My room is not super huge.
Anyways, if there are any ideas floating around out there I'm all ears! Thanks so much for everyone's input, it really helps us out :)
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May 19, 2014, 06:05:51 PM »
I had my students first do a picture search--like a hidden picture thing and they have to say where they hidden objects are. You can turn this into a game.
I also had students draw their own picture of a house, then describe it to another student who has to draw it--the tree is NEXT TO the door. or whatever. they can draw a picture of anything really.
Of course these are both mainly for location prepositions
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May 19, 2014, 06:16:23 PM »
For my prepositions lesson, I had the kids come up and shoot a small ball or big fluffy dice into a cardboard box. If they made it in, they would get 1 point for their team.
Regardless of whether or not they made a basket, wherever the ball landed they would have to say where the ball was in relation to the box. For example "it's under the box, it's in the box, it's beside the box", and everyone else asks them, where is the dice/ball/ect?
Maybe instead of using just a ghetto cardboard box you could make something fancy for open class.
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May 19, 2014, 06:31:35 PM »
there is a Prepositions lesson on this website with the Where the Hell is Matt? video. I did that with great success doing my prepositions lesson first then the video and then a worksheet to describe where Matt is dancing and pictures of each frame. Matt is dancing next to the crabs, Matt is dancing under the waves, etc.
the video is just 2-3 minutes long so it should not seem too time filling.
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May 19, 2014, 06:41:07 PM »
Do an information gap!
Have a blank picture with some simple objects on it. Hat, box, tree, table, bed, etc.
The students draw in some animals.
Then, on another piece of paper, they tell their classmate how to make a copy of their own picture with the key sentence:
The ANIMAL is PREPOSITION the NOUN.
EX: The CAT is IN the HAT.
After they can compare their pictures. Takes about 15-20 minutes and gives ample opportunity for the students to speak to each other. I do this often and with different variations depending on the class level.
Another way to do this is with 1 drawing partner and 1 speaking partner. The drawing partner turns their back to the TV and the speaking partner tells them what they see using the same key sentence.
Speaking Partner: The CAT is IN the HAT. - Now the drawing partner draws the cat and the hat. Or you can give them paper with the simple objects on it already.
For example:
1. [Picture of a hat]
2. [Picture of a table]
Picture 1: Cat in a hat
Picture 2: Dog under a table.
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katsy3g4
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May 20, 2014, 10:34:10 AM »
Those are all really great. I'll try to pick them to her. She does want to try and do something different, something that isn't a cut and dry prepositions activity. That's why we were so excited about the treasure hunt. Everyone's ideas have really helped our racked brains, though. Thanks!
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May 20, 2014, 01:20:05 PM »
I've been doing a preposition lesson and used 'Where's Waldo' as an activity. Students have to describe where he is without pointing or saying 'there!' Usually I look for two or three decent points of reference before I call it and move on. Be careful when choosing your pictures tho! Make sure the pictures aren't too uniform (one from the crusades is nothing but the same soldiers over and over, which makes it hard to give many details).
I've also mocked up some dry erase boards from heavy card stock and overhead projector film in an attempt to engage more than one student at a time with these activities.
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May 20, 2014, 02:27:59 PM »
A couple short things:
Tape something (a flash card or a picture) under the chairs, and have the students check under their chairs at some point during the class. "What's under your chair?" Slightly off target language, but they'll think it's funny.
Set up a tray with objects like a cup, a small box, a bag (see through is best), and put objects in and around it. Give the students a few moments to see it, and then ask them where the objects are. You can do this a couple of ways, by arranging it behind the desk and lifting it up, or by blocking their view with a big piece of poster board.
Along the lines of Where's Waldo, there are the I-Spy books from Jean Marzello and Walter Wick. If you can get scans of their books, those are good photos to work with. Here's their website, with online games:
http://www.scholastic.com/ispy/games/index.htm
You can also put things around the room, but you'll have to make it visible from the desks if the room is that crowded.
There's a dinosaur preposition powerpoint somewhere on the website, I've used that before. Edit: Found it -
http://www.waygook.org/index.php?topic=47168.0
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I just did a student teacher open class and it was really fun! Anyhow, this may not work for you but I love this idea and when I planned it last year my classes using it had to do something else so I never got to try it!
http://lessonslearntjournal.com/prepositions-vocabulary-for-beginning-readers/
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May 20, 2014, 05:11:35 PM »
sorry this isnt an idea, just a tip: Use it, or don't :)
I don't really think you need to go over board and prepare new things that you wouldnt usually do in class. If you look at the way most of these teachers teach in English, they lack confidence...some...
I had student teachers come to my classes for 2 weeks, i did nothing special, just the usual book work and review sort of stuff, and the fact that i had confidence when teaching impressed them, and well...the class was a hyper class in general so they responded well.
So don't feel to presured into impressing them...just having confidence and not generally being fake...if you know what i mean.. works well.
Also, most of my classes weren't powerpoint based, it usually involved the students talking as much as they can in a game way, either writing exercises, were they speak wha tthey wrote, or role-plays with props, (parents love seeing their kids talk and how good they are, my principal wanted to see that too and was quite happy when the kids were able to repond to me in english, so it's not just you doing all the talking all of the time but just giving direction here and there.)
Sorry if you didnt need any advice...just puting it out there :)
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