Classroom objects and toys 3 lesson plan

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Lesson 21 Level 1 Age 3-5

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Lesson 21

Classroom objects and toys 3

This is the concluding lesson for the themes of classroom objects and some toys. Students play lots of games and activities based around these themes as well as read a fun story about toys and [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us].

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Age: 3-5 years
Time: 40 mins – 1 hour
Objectives: Identifying and saying 5 objects in the classroom and 8 different toys.
Structures: “What’s this?”, “What [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] is this?”.
New vocabulary: book, balloon.
Review vocabulary: door, window, chair, table, bookcase, toy, teddy bear, doll, puppet, robot, ball, blocks, [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us].

Lesson materials

Printables:

Fun with toys worksheet
Toys match and [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] worksheet
Toys play time reader worksheet

Songs:

Hello song
Goodbye song
The rainbow song

Readers:

Toys play time

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
[hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] origami papers or other [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] papers
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, book, balloon
music for the “Musical circle touch” activity
lots of [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] sticker circles
cushions (1 per student)
device to play the songs on

Notes:

The final lesson about classroom objects and toys vocabulary. There are lots of games and activities based around these themes as well as a fun toy 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 …”.

… 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 rainbow song”
We are going to review [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us] in this lesson, so let’s start with the Rainbow song. Give out all 7 [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us] from the song (e.g. [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] paper, pencils, etc.) to each student. Get each student to lay out the [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us] in front of him/her, in the order of the song. As you pay the song again, have all students touch each [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] and sing along.

Lyrics for “The rainbow song”

Verse 1:
Red and yellow and pink and green,
Purple and orange and blue.
I can sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow too.

Verse 2:
Red apples and yellow sun,
Pink flowers in the green grass.
Purple grapes and orange carrots,
A rainbow high in the blue sky.

Verse 3:
Red and yellow and pink and green,
Purple and orange and blue.
I can sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow too.

Gestures for “The rainbow song”

There are a number of activities you can do as you sing along to the song:

Simply pat your knees or clap in time with the music as you sing the song.
Give each student a print out of “The rainbow song” song poster. As they sing along they touch each [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] or picture.
Give out the 7 [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us] to students ([hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] paper, origami paper, [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] blocks, [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] pencils – anything will do) and have students touch the [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us] in time with the song.
Put [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] paper up around the walls of the classroom. Have all of your students point to each [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] as it is sung.

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[hide_on_us]Short sample (members get full-length song):
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8. Play “Touch the [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us] on the walls”
This is a great activity to do, especially if your classroom has lots of [hide_on_uk]colorful[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colourful[/hide_on_us] posters on the walls. If not, before class pin lots of [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] origami papers around the classroom walls (at touching height).

Demonstrate by shouting out a [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] (e.g. “Red”). Run and touch red on any poster / red origami. Do the same for another [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] (e.g. “Blue”). Each time run to a new poster/origami. Now have the students do the activity – shout out a [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] and have them all run around the classroom touching the [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us] on the walls.

9. 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.

10. Play “Knock-knock”
Let’s review classroom vocabulary with a fun game. Tell everyone to close their eyes. Walk up to one of the classroom objects (e.g. the window) and knock twice on it.

Encourage the students to shout out what they think you are knocking on. Each time they can open their eyes to check.

Then pair up your students and get them to play “Knock-knock” together.

11. Play “Where are the toys?”
We are going to review the classroom objects and toys vocabulary. Hold up a toy and elicit the word. Get everyone to close their eyes – place the toy on or near a classroom object.

Say, “Open your eyes. Where is the (teddy bear)?”. Students have to quickly look, point and say the classroom object it is on or near. Continue for all the toys.

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 book and a balloon.

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 “Musical circle touch”
Sit all your students in a circle and place the toys in the [hide_on_uk]center[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]centre[/hide_on_us] of the circle. Play some music and have students pass a ball or bean bag around the circle. Stop the music. Say to the student holding the ball, “Touch the teddy bear!” – and the student does so.

Start playing the music and do the same thing so that all your students have touched a toy.

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. Do the “[hide_on_uk]Color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]Colour[/hide_on_us] stickers” activity
For this activity you need lots of [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] sticker circles which can easily be found in most stationery [hide_on_uk]stores[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]shops[/hide_on_us]. If you can’t get hold of some, using [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] crayons will also do.

First, put up a large sheet of paper (ideally A3) on the wall with columns draw on it. At the top of each column draw a large [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] dot – each column with a different [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] dot. It should look like this:

Quickly chorus through the [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us] on this sheet. Then give out a sheet of [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] stickers to each student. Tell them they are going to look at all the toys and for each [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] they see they will go up to the poster and put a [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] dot in the correct column (or draw a dot with their crayon). So for example, a student looking at a doll may see a pink dress, red shoes and green eyes, so s/he will go up to the poster and stick on red, pink and green dots. Then s/he will find another toy to put up [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us].

Keep going until students have filled the sheet with dots. Get everybody to sit down and look at the poster. Talk about the [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us] and ask which [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] has the most and least dots.

7. Do the “Fun with toys!” worksheet
This worksheet carries on straight from the last activity (toys and [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us]). Give out the worksheets. For younger students who can’t read, elicit the first toy (a teddy bear) and then read the sentence under the picture “a yellow teddy bear”. Have everyone take out their yellow crayons and [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] the teddy bear picture.

Carry on like this for all of the pictures. When finished, get each student to show the class their work, ask a question (e.g. what [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] is the doll?) and give a round of applause.

8. Read classroom reader “Toys play time”
Let’s finish with a fun story about toys and [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us]. Before class, download and print off the reader “Toys play time”. As you go through each page, point to the different toys and ask for the students to tell you what they are and what [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us] they see, for example:

Teacher: (pointing on page 3) Look, what toy is this?
Students: A teddy bear!
Teacher: Yes, that’s right! And what [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] is it?
Students: Brown!
Teacher: Yes, a brown teddy bear! And what is he playing with? (pointing at the balloon)
Students: A balloon!
Teacher: Yes, good job! And what [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] is the balloon?
Students: Red!

Continue through the reader, eliciting different objects and [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us].

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 [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] the objects from the story. Check that everyone is using the correct [hide_on_uk]colors[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colours[/hide_on_us].

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

Wrap up:

1. Assign homework: “Toys match and [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us]” 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 following the dotted lines to match up a few of the toys and [hide_on_uk]color[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]colour[/hide_on_us] them in according to the instructions. 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!