Slide #5

In class, the teacher starts each week and day with a vocabulary activity. The students get up from their seats and create movements to remember the meanings of the words. This helps them engage and remember the vocabulary better. Later in the week, they review the words through a Simon Says activity. We will begin vocab for the lesson and we start vocab each week and each day by chanting as a class, hold up, wait a minute, let me put some vocab in it, and then they know that we're starting vocab and they get up out of their seats for our vocabulary activity. For vocab, when they get out of their seats, I'll display each word, so on the next slide the word is celebrate. It has the definition on the screen. They will then create a movement all on their own. These have to be the same. I tell them we all have different brains, they can all have different movements, whatever they need to do to remember the meaning of the word. So for celebrate, a lot of the kids will jump up and down, cheer, and stuff like that to remember the meaning of the word. And we'll do that for all of our vocabulary words. Show the definition, then they create a movement. And then later on in the week for review, we'll even do like a Simon Says activity where they show their movement for each word based off of the vocabulary word that Simon says. And that's it.