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71 Sea Life Flashcards. Place several
flashcards on the board. Ask questions.
Game: Guess the animal.
Teacher: What color is the shell ?
Students: It´s yellow.
Teacher: brown!
Students: sea lion and walrus!
Teacher: Is the sea turtle green ?
Students: Yes, it is.
Playing a game in class is an authentic taks that involve peer interaction. It is as easy as ordering alphabetically. I made craft stick puppets with the sea animals pictures and then ordered them alpahabetically.
Place all the flashcards face down on the desk. Have a leader come to
the front and grab a card and read it to the class. Students have to write the
animal they hear. After the students have written the word the leader shows the
flashcards and the class corrects any spelling mistake.
Use the Point finger to review this
and that.
Teacher: This is an orca and that is a
prawn.
Do the same by placing several flashcards of the same animal and
practice These and Those.
Place more flashcards around the room and have the students say
sentences using their own finger.
Numbers. Write the Numbers 10 to 100 in random order under each
flashcard. Play!
Teacher: 50!
Students: shark!
Teacher: sea lion!
Students: one hundred!
Adjectives: long-short,
big-little
Game: Guess the animal.
Play the game with the whole class as an example:
Students: What
color is it ?
Teacher: black
and white.
Students: Is
it big or small ?
Teacher: It´s big!
Students:
Orca!
Teacher:
YES!!!
Students can play with the small cards. Separate the
printable into cards and select the ones that you are working on. Divide the
class into pairs. Hand in at least 8 cards to each group. Have Student A write
on piece of paper the name of a Sea Animal. Student B has to guess which is
that animal.
Student B:
What color is it ?
Student A:
brown!
Student B: Is
it big or small ?
Student A:
big!
Student B:
walrus!
Student A:
YES!!
Feelings Sea animals Flashcards. I wanted to
add some flashcards regarding feelings to recycle the vocabulary words.
Place all the flashcards on the board. Have students
come up with a fly swatter and swat the correct flashcard. Practice listening skills as you say the sentence.
Teacher: It is an angry starfish.
Prepositions of
place. Draw a beach scene on the board and place the Sea Animals in random
order.
Teacher: The crab is at the beach. The
crab is next to the starfish.
Have students come up with similar sentences.
You can also hand in all the Sea animals and have
the students place them as you say.
Teacher: Lenny, the shark is in the
Ocean. The shark is behind the blue
fish.
Or introduce more positional words such as left and
right.
Teacher: The crab is on the right.
Practice more positional words with this worksheet. Have the students glue their
Sea Animals in any way that they want and then have them write sentences to
show to the rest of the class.
As a listening activity, dictate how to glue the Sea Animals.
Teacher: The octopus is between the
crab and the seahorse.
Practice prepositions using puppets made out of toilet
paper tubes.
Build words using bottle caps. I made this template. It´s free at the
link.
Parts of the
body. Place a flashcard on the board and ask questions about that specific
animal body parts. Have them name the body parts they already know the word and
help them with the new vocabulary.(LABELING)
And
extra practice is always necessary. Hand in all the worksheets and have them
work in groups completing the Sea Animals body parts. Have them research the
unknown words.
Sea animals habitat. Sea or Ocean animals live in the same place or
in some other. Place a flashcard
of the habitat and ask the students which animals they think live in that
particular habitat to create a mind map. I have ocean, sea, beach, river and lake.
Sea Animals also eat.Create another mind map with the flashcards on the board.
File folder game. I made them the size of a circle puncher.
Snapshots templates where children can draw the animals
and write a sentence for each one.
Sea animals writing
or reading. Have the children write sentences using the template or have them
write their own sentences to complete a book.
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