(2011 National) Grade 5, Lesson 4 - "What a Nice Day!"

Here is a good pass the pencil/marker writing game.  It is not the hardest game, but it gets them writing all the sentences from period 4.  My kids ABSOLUTELY LOVE these games!  The first sentence is just an example with my name on it so you probably want to change it before using.

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS JEOPARDY REVIEW GAME.  I'D LIKE TO INCLUDE TOPICS FROM PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.  SO FAR I'VE JUST DONE ADJECTIVES.  I NEED TO GO TO SLEEP, I'VE BEEN HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE EMBEDDING AND TIMING OF THE JEOPARDY MUSIC.  IF SOMEONE WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE WHAT I STARTED THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.

Thanks for the great stuff but I love the song in the book. It's so catchy.

This is a mini book that you can make in your class as a review to wrap up the lesson. It takes about 20 minutes

This is great for teaching the expression: "What a...."

Here's a hidden picture game.  It's pretty self-explanatory.  Each picture represents a phrase such as "What a nice day" or "What a big elephant".

Hello fellow Waygooks! I attached a ppt. that I used for my open class this week. I also attached a worksheet document that goes along with it. I did a review and used a chant from the book and then did the following lesson:

1. A worksheet where I read sentences aloud for part one and two and then had them unscramble words for part 3

2. The golden bell game played with every student having their own whiteboard. I would show the scrambled sentence quickly and then go to the question mark slide. Then I would count down from five and have the students all raise their boards at the same time as I show the unscrambled slide. The students keep track of how many correct answers they get. You can use as many or as few slides as you want depending on time.

3. I played the board game which I printed out and used dice for. I believe I got the board game template from someone on this site but I can't remember who, so thanks for that stranger. It's basically shoots and ladders. The students have to say the phrase that is on the square that they land on. I used the ppt. to show the students how to play. There are a lot of slides but once you look through them you can see that it is for the sake of showing moving pieces and that you run through the slides quickly when explaining the game.

This lesson was jam packed with activities so if you want to add or subtrack any one of them it may be advisable.

Enjoy and please feel free to leave me any feedback.

-Ty

I'm not sure if my files attached properly, so let me know if there is any trouble with that.

-Ty

Nice clear PPT, thanks very much. I dropped the 'fancy' slide for my classes though as I felt it was unnecessary new vocab. Thanks again.

Here is a modified wheel game- im not sure who made it-  but thank you soooo much to whoever did,  my third graders loved it so I adapted it to cover chapters 1-4 for my fifth grade

Lesson 4 - Period 5:  Does anybody dislike teaching Story Time for Grade 5 as much as I do?  I'm having serious issues with this "Who Am I?" story.  I feel like I am beating a dead horse.  My students knew it was a TV in chapter one.  Doing the role-play is really difficult because there is no substance to the story.  It's just, "Hamin's dad watches a baseball game. He shout's, " What a nice play!" Now, can you tell?  Yes, I am "Television!" "    And does it really have any application to the chapter?  The chapter is called "What a nice day!"  talking about things in and around the city on nice day with the common phrase, "What a ______ ______!" 

He says 'what a nice play' in the story but only a man sitting on a sofa sipping tea would say that as if commenting on the weather. 

I would really appreciate ideas that would be applicable and interesting pertaining to this period.  My students always get so bored with story time and lose focus very quickly. 
Need ideas, PLEASE!!!

My students knew it was a TV after chapter 1 too! Usually, I completely down-play that whole section. I always start it with my own "Who am I?" PPT. They love them! Then for the activity--I make up my own. One time, the kids made their own "Who am I?" clues and the class had to guess. Another time we practiced dialogues. I haven't made one for Unit 4 yet. I'm thinking of showing a Guiness Book of World Records PPT during that period.

Does anyone have anymore activity suggestions for the key sentence? "What a......"

It doesn't have to be a game, just something where they can practice as much as possible.

My coteachers are giving me nothing here and I'm drawing a blank as well.

thanks in advance!

Lesson 4 - Period 5:  Does anybody dislike teaching Story Time for Grade 5 as much as I do?

You might want to start a new thread on ideas on how to improve or branch out story time.

I skip it and use the children's story PPT's at the beginning of each lesson which may or may not relate to the lesson theme.  I have the students learn and practice easy pop songs upon completion of each chapter - generally a new song per month.

I have an open class soon and I made this presentation for it.  It is probably my best original contribution to the site so far.  I will probably improve on it before show time but it can be used as is (the person who checked the vocab Hangul doesn't have great English, so get someone to double-check):

 Grade 5 - Open Class-5.pptx

Included Worksheet (print the ppt slide) and answer key.



Cheers!

I can't take credit for the Mario game.  It was posted under 'Grade 4 Don't touch that' (By Shane Teacher in Daegu?).  It is the best Mario Game I've seen so far.  I just began to edit it for my open class.  In the meantime I stripped the questions while leaving all the point links and everything else in place.  Enjoy using the template for this chapter or any other elementary class :-)

Super Cool Mario-TEMPLATE.pptx

(Can't include in ppt format because it exceeds the upload limit.  If you have PowerPoint 97-2003 download the compatibility pack so you can work with pptx and docx.)

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Cheers!

Role Play

In Korean and English.
Do this after Hamins story.
Takes a full class period.

A scrambled scentence whiteboard game with stolen flashcard images.

Opposites

A good game for the writing period:

Divide the class into groups of 4-6
Give each team a white board, marker and eraser
Show the attached presentation.
Students must make a sentence using the words they see.
1 point for the teams that get it right also I give an extra point for the fastest team.

It works really well.

The presentation is taken from another game I found on this topic so the "are you ready?" slides aren't very necessary. I would have deleted them but the loud noises help to get their concentration. You may wish to amend these slides if you want to use it.

Good luck. Hope you enjoy!

attach is a simple chase the voc ppt. it is very short. just 3 rounds. it is meant for a warm-up or wrap-up. cheers!