preposition: review of "inside"

Who is inside the sleeping bag?

To review the preposition "inside" we used the sleeping bag today.

Language Goals
Expressive Language: preposition "inside" conjunction "and"
Receptive Language: Who/What questions

To start everyone made a large circle on the carpet area. I selected one student to go in the hall with my aide. Then I put one student inside the sleeping bag, all the way! Nothing can be showing. Call the student in the hall back in the classroom to try to guess who is inside the sleeping bag.

T: Who is inside the sleeping bag?
S: Hamoody is inside the sleeping bag!
(the student who was inside the sleeping bag now goes in the hallway.)
Once everyone has had a turn inside the sleeping bag, I hid camping items inside the sleeping bag. Sometimes I hid one item or sometimes I hid two items (hoping to get the "and" conjunction!)

T: What is inside the sleeping bag?
S: The tent and the pots are inside the sleeping bag.

CENTERS
Sleeping bags-the kiddos made sleeping bags from construction paper and yarn. I cut large strips of white construction paper and folded the bottom up about 3//4 of the way to the top.  Then I punched holes along the edges and tied a string for the kiddos to lace. Once the kiddos laced the sleeping bag, they got to decorate it however they wanted. I also took pictures of the kiddos laying down on the ground and let them cut out the pictures to put inside the  sleeping bag. Super cute!

here is the finished product minus the picture of the kiddos.



preposition: inside

Tent Day!

I love camping so much and I am super excited to share this experience with my kiddos at school!
Today was tent day. I brought  a small tent (borrowed from my kiddos at home) and we pitched a tent. I don't think my kiddos at school have every paid so close attention to what I was doing! They were all intrigued.

Language Goals
Expressive Language: inside, and (review pronouns I, he/she)
Receptive Language: Where and Who questions

Once the tent has been pitched, take turns going inside the tent.
T: Andrew, go inside the tent. Where are you?
S: I am inside the tent!
T: (ask another student) Where is Andrew?
S: He is inside the tent.
Give each child a chance to be in the tent alone. Then call on 2 or more students to go inside the tent.
T: Yousef and Symone go inside the tent. Where are you?
S: Yousef and I are inside the tent (Or We are inside the tent)
Then put everyone inside the tent!

CENTERS
Make a tent-I searched all over the Internet for a tent craft and everything was so detailed that the kiddos wouldn't get to do much. So, I created my own. Using 5 toothpicks, clay, paper, crayons/markers and hot glue gun (adult use) we made a tent. Roll the clay into 6 small balls. Stick the toothpicks in the clay to form the tent shape.

Then give each child a precut rectangle to decorate. This will be the "tent" top. The adult will hot glue the tent top on the toothpicks. We set the tent on dark green construction paper rectangle.

Wash mess kit- at the water table, the kiddos washed the mess kits. I brought in  some washcloths and filled the tub with soap and water. What a messy fun time they had, but hey my floors got clean!

Tent play- I left the tent from the morning set up and let the kiddos play inside. I added a sleeping bag, flashlight and cooler for a fun dramatic play center.

Writing Center-The kiddos cut and glued a tent shape onto green paper. Then they wrote "I am inside the tent" on the paper. Some kiddos traced and some wrote on their  own. Then the kiddos glued pictures I had taken early inside the tent (each kiddo laid on the ground with head in hands for the pictures. Super cute!)

future tense: I will

Camping!

We started our finally unit of the school year!! Hard to believe so much time has passed already. For the final unit, we are going camping! To start the unit off we reviewed camp vocabulary words and watched a video through Discovery Streaming. Your school needs to be a member to access the videos. If your school has a membership here is the link to the video we watched.

The next day, I brought in some camping items from home (a tent, sleeping bag, backpack, mess kit, cooler, and flashlight.) I set these out and some non-camping items. The kiddos had to decided what to bring on the camping trip!

Language Goals
Expressive language: Future tense (I will bring)
Receptive Language: What questions

Name and review all of the items to start.
Teacher should model the first item.
T: I will bring the tent camping. Who will bring the tent?
S: Sloan will bring the tent!
Let each child pick an item to bring. We sang a song after each item.
"I will bring the tent, I will bring the tent, heigh-ho off we go, I will bring the tent." (sung to Farmer and the Dell).
Here are the vocabulary pictures I used for this unit. 

 

CENTERS
Writing Center- I had a writing prompt made for the kids "I will bring the ______________." I set our the vocabulary pictures and the kiddos had to pick one item to bring. They wrote the word on the line (with the help of the classroom para) and drew a picture to match.