3rd Grade 1st Unit Activity Ideas
- You can start the lesson with greeting song. They will like it. While you are listening the song, tell them to act according to the song. Be active.
- You can use puppets for asking their names and for the other new words like "have a good day" , "hello" and so on.
- You can sing the alphabet song. Prepare a bag with the letters, choose a letter and ask them which letter is it.
- You can prepare a video using puppets or toys spelling their names.Ask them prepare a video for spelling their names as well.
- You can starts teaching numbers with a song. You can play bom game. They have to say "bom" when the number is 5,10,15 and 20:)
- You can clap your hands and ask them which number is it? or you can use a musical instrument like tambourine, drum or etc. For example, clap your hands three times. They have to tell this is number 3.
- You can start your lesson with story about family frog. You can find the story, video and flashcards on newinkle.weebly.com.
- You can ask them "Who is this?" while you are taking the frog family from the pond after you told the story.
- Draw a moustache for he and draw a hat for she. Ask the Ss the family members one by one and emphasizing He is father, she is mother, etc. sentences, stick the flashcards or write the family words under he and she column.
- You can play "silent cinema" with the family members words. Show a card to one of your Ss and ask him or her to mime the word to their friends. The one who guess the word correctly will be the next player.
- Give them a project. Prepare flashcards fro the family members of an animal. Next lesson ask them to introduce the family members to their friends.
- As a project, you can also give them to use "blabber" or "chatterpix" to give voice to their family members If they have oppurtunity to do this.
- You can use opposites song with a rap music. When I say big you say small big, small big small kind of.
- You can play "silent cinema" here as well. Tell them choose a word and mime them to their friends and their friends will try to find the opposite of the miming word.
- Play "freeze feelings game". Play the music. While it is playing, tell your Ss to dance. Stop the music and tell them freeze their feelings. The teacher is going to ask "How are you? or How do you feel?" The Ss is going to answer the question one by one. Let them ask the question to their friends after modelling.
- Distribute feelings cards to your Ss. Tell them to raise the one you said. If they are wrong, go on with the winners:)
- Divide the class into two groups. Tell them to line up according to their groups. Give them markers. Tell your Ss a feeling like happy,and want them to draw it correctly. If they are correct, give them one point. The winner will be the one who gets more points.
- Show your Ss a card of feeling and also an action card. Tell them to make sentences using Let's............
- For online class, I asked them to send me an emoji which I said in the class time. They loved it but emojis in the zoom meeting are limited:(