Classroom objects and toys 2 lesson plan

“Teddy is under the table”

Lesson 20 Level 1 Age 3-5

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Lesson 20

Classroom objects and toys 2

This lesson continues the themes of classroom objects and some toys. Students play fun classroom objects and toys games and activities and read a fun story about finding things in the classroom.

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Age: 3-5 years
Time: 40 mins – 1 hour
Objectives: Identifying and saying 5 objects in the classroom and 6 different toys, saying how old you are.
Structures: “What’s this?”, “What [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] is this?”, “How old are you?”, “I’m (4)”.
New vocabulary: table, bookcase, ball, blocks.
Review vocabulary: door, window, chair, toy, teddy bear, doll, puppet, robot.

Lesson materials

Flashcards:

Classroom objects flashcards (door, window, chair, table, bookcase) – enough sets for everyone in the class

Printables:

Find me in the classroom reader worksheet
[hide_on_uk]Color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]Colour[/hide_on_us] the classroom 2 worksheet
Classroom objects count worksheet

Songs:

Hello song
Goodbye song
Head, shoulders, knees and toes

Readers:

Find me in the classroom

Supplies:

name tags for each student
a glove puppet
[hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] crayons / pencils
a large cloth bag
Blu-tack or tape
a box with holes to put arms inside (see the “Feel the toys in the box” activity)
toys in a box: teddy bear, doll, puppet, robot, ball, blocks
a length of rope
2 balls (or A4 paper scrunched into balls)
a basket (such as a [hide_on_uk]trash can[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]wastepaper basket[/hide_on_us])
cushions (1 per student)
device to play the songs on

Notes:

Students add more classroom objects and toys vocabulary to their vocabulary range. There are lots of games and activities based around these themes as well as a fun story to read.

Lesson procedure:

Warm up and maintenance:

1. Greetings
Greet the students by name as they enter the classroom and gesture for them to sit down (on cushions if you have them) in a fan-shape around you.

2. Name tags
Before class, prepare some blank name tags (stickers or pin-on tags) and some cards, each with a student’s name written on clearly – students will use them to copy their names onto their name tags. Sit down with your students and lay out the name cards in front of you. Pick up each card and encourage the student to recognize his/her name. Do this for everyone.

Finally, have everyone take out a crayon or pencil and copy their name on their tags and stick them on.

Introduce glove puppet - greetings and introductions activity

3. Glove puppet greetings
Bring out your glove puppet bag and have everyone shout “Hello!“ into the bag until he wakes up and jumps out of the bag. Then model talking to the glove puppet …

Teacher: “Hello”, What’s your name?”
Puppet: “My name is…”.
Puppet: “How are you?”
Teacher: “I’m fine, thank you”.
Puppet: “How old are you?”
Teacher: “I’m …”. (If you don’t want to say your true age just say a simple number, like 8. Your students won’t really understand anyway!).

… and then have the puppet say hello to each student and ask them the same questions, including their age. Finally, go around saying “Goodbye” and “See you” before going back into the bag and back to sleep.

4. Sing the “Hello song”
Sit in a circle and sing the song (clap along or pat knees).

Lyrics for the “Hello song”

Hello, hello,
How are you today?
Hello, hello,
How are you today?

I’m fine, thank you,
I’m fine, thank you,
I’m fine, thank you,
And how about you?

Hello, hello,
How are you today?
I’m fine, thank you,
And how about you?

Gestures for the “Hello song”

These are quite straight forward. First time you play the song do the gestures and encourage everyone to do them with you.

Wave as you sing the “Hello, hello” parts.
Gesture to others as you sing, “How are you today?”
Point to yourself as you sing, “I’m fine, thank you”
Hand gesture towards another student as you sing, “And how about you?”.

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5. Homework check
Check each student’s homework that you set in the last lesson. Ask each student some questions about their homework worksheet (e.g. “What’s this?”, “How many chairs are there?”, “What [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] are the doors?”, etc.), give lots of praise, and then put some kind of mark on the homework sheet (e.g. a sticker, a stamp or draw a smiley face).

Finally, tell your students to put their homework back into their bags.

6. Do “Exercise routine” activity
Say the following and have the students follow your lead:

“Stand up” (Teacher stands and so does everyone else)
“Hands up / hands down” (do 4 or 5 times)
“Jump” (4 or 5 times)
“Kick” (4 or 5 times)
“Run! / Stop!” (4 or 5 times)
“Turn around! / Stop!” (4 or 5 times)
“Wiggle” (a few seconds)
finally “Sit down”.

7. Sing the “Head, shoulders, knees & toes” song
Let’s keep energy levels up with this review song. Everyone stand up. As the song plays everyone sings and does all the actions, touching each part of the body with two hands in time with the song. It’s easy and fun – your students will love doing this! Each verse gets faster so by the last verse it will be frantic but great fun.

Lyrics for “Head, shoulders, knees & toes”

(Each verse gets faster and faster)

Verse 1:
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Eyes and ears and mouth and nose,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes.

Verse 2:
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Eyes and ears and mouth and nose,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes.

Verse 3:
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Eyes and ears and mouth and nose,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes.

Gestures for “Head, shoulders, knees & toes”

Doing the gestures with this song is a must! They are very simple and the kids will pick them up really quickly as they follow you.

Everyone needs to stand up. Simply touch the parts of your body with both hands in time with the song. The song starts off slowly with each verse getting progressively faster, making the gestures more frantic and therefore more fun!

We also have a video that you can play in class to sing along and do the actions with.

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8. Do the “What’s in the bag?” activity
Time for the bag again. Before class, put a couple of new objects (e.g. a crayon, a plastic bottle, a sock, a paper cup, a leaf, a ball, a teddy, etc. – anything lying around (and safe!)) into the bag.

Show the bag to your students, shake it to rattle the objects inside, and ask, “What’s in the bag?”.

Randomly pull out different objects and teach/elicit the words – in each case, have students hold and pass the objects around. You can even have students pull the objects out of the bag instead of you taking them out – with eyes closed to make it fun!

Finally, place/throw the objects around the classroom and have each student retrieve an object as you call out its name and put it back in the bag.

New learning and practice:

1. Play “Feel the toys in the box”
You should still have the box with two arm holes from the last class. Before class, prepare the toys from the last lesson (teddy bear, doll, puppet, robot) as well as 2 new toys: a ball and some blocks.

Get everyone to close their eyes as you put a toy in the upturned box. Let each student have a go feeling the toy and guessing what it is. Leave the two new toys until last.

You can also add some other objects that students have studied in previous lessons (e.g. a crayon, plastic fruit, plastic animals, etc.) – this will give you more objects and allow for vocabulary review.

2. Play “Shout it out”
Have all your students sit down. Start by holding up each toy and eliciting, chorusing and passing the toy around (when passing make sure each student says the word for the toy as they pass it).

Next put all of the toys in a box and have everyone close their eyes. Pull out a toy and say, “Open your eyes” – everyone must open their eyes and shout out the word for toy that you are holding. Play this for all of the toys.

3. Play “Fetch it”
Throw all of the toys around the classroom and place the box at the front of the class. Say to one student, “Please fetch the robot”. That student gets up, goes to the robot, picks it up and takes it over to the box and drops it in. Then do the same for another student with another toy. Keep going until all the toys are back in the box.

You can use the other items from the “Feel the toys in the box” activity as well to give you more things to throw and fetch.

4. Play “Toy rope jump”
Take a length of rope and lay it across the floor at one end of the classroom. On one side place the 6 toys and the box. Have your students line up on the other side of the rope.

Model: “(Your name), put the (robot) in the box”.

Run up to the rope, jump over the rope (say “Jump!”) select the correct toy and put it in the box. Now instruct each student to do the activity.

Variations on the “Toy rope jump” game:

For older students you can have two students holding the rope up whilst the other students jump over. Each time rise the height of the rope a little bit to make it increasingly difficult. Also, you can have limbo rounds where students have to limbo under the rope.

5. 5-minute play time
This is an optional segment that can be part of all your lessons at this level. Allow your students to play with any games or toys you have. If possible, use large tubs or boxes to hold the toys and bring them out for a few minutes each lesson. Tubs filled with animals, plastic fruit, building blocks, kitchen sets, plastic food, cars & vehicles, Mr. Potato Head dolls and so on.

Encourage your students to ask you for the toy they want to play with, circulate during the play time and ask students about their toys. It’s also a good opportunity for a quick rest room break!

6. Review/Introduce the classroom objects and play “Touch it”
Today your students are going to review the classroom vocabulary from last lesson (door, window, chair) and learn two new words: table and bookcase. Before class, print off enough flashcard pictures of each of these words for each student in your class as well as yourself (so if you have 8 students you will need 9 door flashcards, 9 chair flashcards, etc.).

Start off by getting everyone sitting on the floor in front of you. Hold up the chair flashcard. Proceed as follows:

Introduce the classroom vocabulary with flashcards

Teacher: What’s this? It’s a chair. Repeat “chair”.
Students: “Chair” (repeat 3 times)
Teacher: Can you see a chair in the classroom? (Point at a chair).
Students: (Pointing at chairs)
Teacher: Yes! Good job!

At this point say, “Everyone, touch a chair!” and get everyone up and scrabbling to touch the object. If you have a lot of students, say the names of a few students to do the touching.

Lay the flashcard on the floor. Then do the same for the other 4 flashcards.

Next give each student the same 5 flashcards and have them lay the cards out in front of them. Touch one of your cards (e.g. table) whilst saying the word and have your students touch and repeat on their cards. Go through all the cards.

7. Play “Stick the flashcards onto the classroom objects”
Give each student a ball of Blue-Tack. Everyone will instantly want to play with it – allow a couple of minutes to play (encourage them to mould objects, such as fruit, etc.).

Then bring the focus of the class back to yourself and demonstrate the activity: hold up the door flashcard, pull off a bit of Blu-Tack and stick it to the back of the card. Then walk over to a window in the classroom and stick the card to the window. Say, “window” as you do so. Hold up the next flashcard and encourage students to point to the object (act as if you have no idea where it is) then walk over and stick the card to the object, again saying the name. Do this for all 5 flashcards.

Now your students can do the same thing. Teacher says an object (e.g. “chair”) and all of the students have to stick their flashcards onto the object, whilst saying the word. Do for all 5 classroom objects.

8. Play “Retrieve the flashcards from the classroom objects”
Now that all of the flashcards are on objects in the classroom, we can bring them back. To do this, the teacher can give individual instructions to students to go and get a different object and place in front of them. Get everyone up and retrieving different cards at the same time, for example:

Teacher: Rui, bring back the bookcase card, please
(Rui stands up and goes towards the bookcase).
Teacher: Ana, bring back the door flashcard, please
(Ana stands up and goes towards the door).
etc.

This should be fun and a little hectic. When everyone has collected the items and sat down with the flashcards in front of them the activity is over.

9. Play “Classroom objects” touch
Have everyone stand up in the middle of the classroom. Teacher shouts out a word (e.g. “Touch the door!”) and everyone must run to the door and touch it. This should be a quick and exciting game.

After a few rounds, feel free to add other words that have been covered in previous lessons.

10. Play “Hide and find the toys”
This is a really fun game – we’ll be using the toys to practice the classroom vocabulary. First demonstrate: take a toy, such as the teddy bear, and tell everyone to close their eyes. Hide it in or near one of the classroom objects (e.g. under a table, behind a door, next to a window, in a bookcase, on a chair).

Tell everyone to open their eyes. Show that the teddy bear is now gone and is hiding somewhere. Ask for a volunteer to stand up and find it – if help is needed say it is hiding somewhere near one of the 5 classroom objects. When the student finds the teddy bear give a big round of applause and elicit the classroom object the teddy bear was hidden in or near.

Now that everyone understands the game, pair up all the students and give each pair a toy to hide. Student A of each pair will hide the object while Student B closes their eyes.

Have students change roles a few times.

11. Do the “[hide_on_uk]Color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]Colour[/hide_on_us] the classroom 2” worksheet
Hold up the worksheet and model [hide_on_uk]coloring[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colouring[/hide_on_us] in the classroom objects. Then draw a picture of yourself standing in the classroom.

Have your students take out their crayons and complete their worksheets. Spend time with each student, helping, asking questions (e.g. “What is this?”, “What [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] is it?”, etc.) and praising. Also, have each student draw a picture of themselves in the classroom.

Finally, hold up each student’s work in turn and ask them to tell you the objects and [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us]. Tell your students to put their worksheets into their bags.

12. Read classroom reader “Find me in the classroom”
By this point your students will have had a good amount of practice identifying the key vocabulary so let’s have some fun with a story which incorporates the classroom vocabulary. Before class, download and print off the reader “Find me in the classroom”. As you go through each page, point to the key vocabulary in each picture and elicit the words. Then get your students to have fun searching for and finding the [hide_on_uk]ladybug[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]ladybird[/hide_on_us] hiding in the classroom, for example:

Teacher: (reading from page 1) “Hello, I’m Liana [hide_on_uk]Ladybug[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]Ladybird[/hide_on_us].” … Look, she’s in a classroom. What’s this (points at the door)?
Students: Door!
Teacher: Yes, that’s right. And what [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] is it?
Students: Red!
Teacher: Yes, it’s a red door!

(teacher elicits the other classroom objects)

Teacher: (reading from page 1) “I’m going to hide” … Let’s look … (turns to page 2) … Where is Liana [hide_on_uk]Ladybug[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]Ladybird[/hide_on_us]
Students: (pointing) Chair!
Teacher: Oh yes, there she is – under the chair! Repeat “Under the chair”.
Students: Under the chair.
etc.

Continue through the story, asking where the [hide_on_uk]ladybug[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]ladybird[/hide_on_us] is hiding. Get the students really involved in the story by asking lots of questions (e.g. the [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us] and where the other insects are) and even ask yes/no questions about where the [hide_on_uk]ladybug[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]ladybird[/hide_on_us] is hiding (making mistakes, of course), for example:

Teacher: (reading from page 4) “Where am I? Can you find me?” … Let’s see, is this Liana [hide_on_uk]Ladybug[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]Ladybird[/hide_on_us]? (points at the caterpillar).
Students: No!
Teacher: No? Well, is she here, on the table? (pointing at the beetle)
Students: No!
Teacher: Well, where is she?
Students: Bookcase! (pointing)
Teacher: (Looking more closely). Oh, yes! Well done! She’s on the bookcase! Repeat “On the bookcase”
etc.

After reading the story, give out a reader worksheet to each student and read through the story one more time (without stopping for questions, etc.) as students mark on their sheets the different places the ladybug hides. Then go through the answers as a class.

Alternatively, watch our video version of the reader (Internet connection required).

13. Play “Vocabulary basketball”
Let’s finish with a fun game which will review vocabulary from this lesson as well as previous lessons. You will need a basket (a [hide_on_uk]trash can[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]wastepaper basket[/hide_on_us]) and 2 balls (or 2 pieces of A4 paper scrunched up into a ball). Also, have flashcards for the vocabulary from this lesson as well as previous lessons – shuffle them well.

Form 2 teams and line them up so that two players from each team are facing the front with the basket in front of them. Let both players throw their ball – if they get their ball into the basket they can try and win a point by saying the correct word of the flashcard you hold up. Then they go to the back of the line. Play until all of the flashcards have been answered correctly – the team with the most points is the winner!

Wrap up:

1. Assign homework: “Classroom objects count” worksheet
Hold up the homework worksheet – this is a simple counting and [hide_on_uk]coloring[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colouring[/hide_on_us] activity. Model [hide_on_uk]coloring[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colouring[/hide_on_us] the classroom objects – count as you [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] each object. Give out the worksheets and say, “Put your homework in your bags” and help them to do so – this is important as they will probably want to start [hide_on_uk]coloring[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colouring[/hide_on_us] them right away.

2. Say goodbye to the glove puppet
Take out the bag again and get everyone to wake up the glove puppet by shouting its name into the bag (e.g. “Cookie Monster!”). Bring out the puppet and go through the same routine – go to each student and say hello, ask their name and the say goodbye / see you. Then put the puppet back in the bag (back to sleep).

3. Sing the “Goodbye song”
Sit together in a circle and sing and clap along.

Lyrics for the “Goodbye song”

Goodbye, goodbye,
See you again.
Goodbye, goodbye,
See you again.

It’s time to go,
It’s time to go,
It’s time to go,
See you next time.

Goodbye, goodbye,
See you again.
It’s time to go,
See you next time.

Gestures for the “Goodbye song”

These are quite straight forward. First time you play the song do the gestures and encourage everyone to do them with you.

Wave as you sing the “Goodbye, goodbye” parts.
Hold your hand above your eyes (as you would when you are looking into the distance and keeping the sun out of your eyes) and look at another student as you sing, “See you again”.
Tap watch (or imaginary watch) and then point to the door as you sing, “It’s time to go”.
Point towards another student as you sing, “See you next time”.

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4. Do “Quick check” and say goodbye
Time to leave the class. Make sure everything is put away and the students have gathered their belongings. Have them line up at the door and place yourself between the door and the students.

For each student hold up a toy or point to a classroom object from today’s lesson and ask them to say what it is.

When they say the words correctly say goodbye and let them leave. If they make a mistake, have them go back to the end of the line – they will have to try again once they reach the front!