2010 Grade 4 Lesson 1 - Nice To Meet You.

As an activity to go along with this lesson I played the pass the ball game. However, instead of just one ball circulating, I divided the class in two and had two of them going around the class. When the music stops, there will be two main people each with a ball. Have one ask "What's your name?" and the other respond " My name is..." then both can shaked hands and say nice to meet you.

Hey Waygookers, This is my grade 4 introduction powerpoint. I'm from the UK but you can change it for your country! The 3 videos  (not attached) were short and simple using the 'how are you' vocab. There is a pass the football game at the end that went down well, and also everyone loves a bit of spongebob!

This game looks really good! My students will love the past the ball game. Thanks so much for posting.

glad I'm not the only lazy one- I had flashcards for the six weather phenomena which I taped to the board - I wrote the number and name under each card - I had simple dice for each pair of kids - worked fine

You're certainly not lazy, and neither is the other poster necessarily, you're just not stupid. Part of being a good teacher is being efficient with your time and not duplicating work that doesn't need to be duplicated. Another trick is to tape velcro to each of the six sides of a die. Then have interchangeable laminated cut outs that you can velcro to the die and replace with other ones. This is also much better than wasting your time on making individual dice.

Is a listening or speaking game.  I'm planning on doing it with the rhythmic knee slap, clap, etc. thing.  There will be 5 groups of 6 people.  Groups:  Teacher, New Teacher, Friend, New Friend, Mom/Dad
There are also 6 names.  Each group has one of each name.
Each student gets a square with their group name and person's name on it.

Listening Game:  Teacher says "This is my (group) (name).  E.g. "This is my friend Bomi."  That person must raise their hand or else the group get's penalized.
E.g.
Teacher:  "This is my friend, Mr. Baker. " (Mr. Baker student in the group Friend raises their hand.)
Teacher:  "This is my teacher, Ms. Smith." (Ms. Smith student in the group Teacher raises their hand.)
etc.

Speaking Game:  Similar to the speaking game, except the students say "This is my..."  The person called must respond with "Nice to meet you" and then say "This is my..." to repeat the process.
E.g.
Teacher:  "This is my new friend, Huck."
Huck in group Friend:  "Nice to meet you.  This is my mom, Sally."
Sally in group Mom/Dad:  "Nice to meet you.  This is my new teacher, Juno."
etc.

hi guys hope this helps .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ikdqNVoCYQ

The kids seemed really into catching a ball and then telling me there names. I also shook their hands one by one and they responded well.

ppt for the new words

Here's a bingo game. The basic format is there, you'll just need to rearrange the pictures on subsequent tables before you print. I'll print one for myself,  cut and fold the papers and draw them out of a hat, so to speak. Or let the kids do it. They can play this two or three times using different colors to mark their squares for each round. Also, I usually print doubles to see if more than one student gets a bingo at a time, that tells me who's paying attention and who is not!

Not a game, just a warmer.