Submitted by Kim Wieber duSaire
Time Frame:
One class period of 60 minutes, including time for writing in the classroom and transferring the information to the PowerPoint page; additional time needed for sharing the PowerPoint presentation
Materials Needed:
- photographs from lesson 4
- flashcards or a poster with shapes and their names
- list of adjectives used to describe shapes
- lined paper
- pencils,
- shape blocks
- puzzle pages
- computer lab with PowerPoint
Description of Task:
1. Each student will be writing about the shape in his or her photograph. They write about the shape by filling in the blanks in the two sentences: Yo veo un/a __________ and El/La _____(shape) es _____ (adj.). Students capable of doing so should be encouraged to add another adjective to the second sentence or to write another sentence.
2. The students will type their sentences from the previous lesson onto a PowerPoint page. Each child will type his or her name and the sentences describing his or her shape.
3. The students will read aloud their pages to the class or others. The teacher needs to set up the PowerPoint design and import the photos before students type in their information. After students complete their pages, the pages need to be sequenced and put into the presentation.
Note: The final PowerPoint presentation should be displayed during parent teacher conferences or at Open House.
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