Week Nine: Welcome
Winter
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| Making Mittens |
Time allotment
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Activity
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Materials
Needed
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10 minutes
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Greet students; give them each a sheet of
paper and show them how to make their own origami books.
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Paper
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10 minutes
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Show the PowerPoint presentation
“Welcome Winter!” and help students to create their books. Tell students that
they are not allowed to translate;
they must draw the meanings of the words. (see examples below)
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15 minutes
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On the board, draw a stick person.
Name him “Dima.” Tell the students that Dima wants to play outside, but he is
not ready. Ask them “What does Dima need to play outside?” As you ‘dress’
Dima, by taping his clothes to the board, have students say the words in
Englishàtrousers, boots, sweater, coat, hat, scarf.
And what does Dima still need? Mittens!
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Clothes
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10 minutes
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Students will now make mittens for
Dima.
Each student will get some construction
paper (I found that a half-sheet was more than enough). Use the template and
have students cut out a pair of mittens.
Then, using the cotton swab, they
can paint on one half of the mittens. (Cotton swabs are great to keep things
clean; the kids can choose two different colors and use the two different
ends, without mixing the paint.) When they are done, they are to fold the
mittens together again to create an identical pair. When the mittens are dry,
cut them in half and insert one end of a string in each mitten.
For complete instructions on the Mitten craft, click here. |
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Construction paper
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Cotton swabs
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Paint
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Scissors
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String
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Mitten template
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| Making Mittens |
