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Old Mar 1st, 2006, 12:27 am
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Default Re: Pre-schoolers

Timed races are really good for small classes.

I like to use a stop watch or timer and see how many flash cards we can get through as a team in 30-40 seconds. Then you can play again to see if you can beat your old record. This will help for your competetive students and is nice because now you're all working as a team.

The timed races work well for all kinds of language:
counting
alphabet
simple vocabulary (with flash cards)
short simple sentence (with flash cards)
short yes/no questions (with flash cards)

Don't bother keeping records for the next class because it will just make it difficult for the students to win. Start new each class and set a relatively easy target for the first round.

These can be literally races with everyone racing to one side of the room to get the cards. Then coming back and saying or asking something using the card. Then the next person would head off for the next card.

Do all your drilling/review and such before hand and work up to the race at the end. This might be a 10-15 minute exercise (more with teacher time-outs for air.)
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