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Estimated Time: 0-10 minutes
Materials Needed: Post-it® Easel Pads, Recycled (1 Pad) (559RP), Post-it® Flags 1/2 inch, Multi-Color (683-4), Post-it® Flag+ Ballpoint Pen, Black (692-P2BLACK), Post-it® Kids Notes, Sight Word Notes (562-SWN), Tongue depressers, tin can.
Materials Needed:
- Post-it® Easel Pads
- Recycled (1 Pad) (559RP)
- Post-it® Flags 1/2 inch
- Multi-Color (683-4)
- Post-it® Flag+ Ballpoint Pen
- Black (692-P2BLACK)
- Post-it® Kids Notes
- Sight Word Notes (562-SWN)
- Tongue depressers
- tin can.
Description:
Students play “hot potato” with a canister to music. When the music stops, whoever ends up with the canister has to open it and pull out a tongue depreser with a Post-it® tab on the top. Sticks have colored post-it’s on the top so students know what genre/category they’re choosing. They have to answer the question on the bottom of the stick or define the word. If they get it right, they get to put the post-it tab on the large tablet in the front of the room with their name on it. If they don’t get it right, they have to pass the stick to the next person. Every 9 weeks there’s a new winner:)
Instructions:
Step 1: Stick flags on the tops of the tongue depressers.
Step 2: Write vocabulary, questions, etc. at the bottom of the tongue depresser. (You can even write - "see site word cards at desk")
Step 3: Have students pass the can and answer the question.
Step 4: When the student gets it right, they get to write their name on the Post-it flag and put it on the Post-it Easel Pad in the front of the room.
Step 5: Whoever has the most flags on the Easel Pad at the end of the 9 weeks wins a Post-it prize to help them study.
Afterwards:
Objective: To enhance previous day's lessons. To aide in recalling important facts.
Lesson Extensions: This can connect to any lesson as a review activity. It also can connect to Morning Exercises for Elementary schools that participate.
Supporting All Learners: This is a great activity because it includes colors for genres (to help visual learners). Students are moving around with the hot potato part of the activity (to help kinesthetic learners). They have to read out loud the question or definition and answer out loud (to help the auditory learners). They have to write their name (great for young students). ESL/ELL students will get practice reading and responding in English. This activity can be adapted for a Special Education classroom for whatever subject is at hand.
Assignment/Home Connection: Students have to study at home what they learned the previous day so they will be able to answer the questions in school the next day.
