U1 Interactive Display: Shapes At Home Teacher Notes

Round Up: after using the slideshow

Suggested use: after Lesson 4 (but can be
used after any lesson in the unit, too)
Time: 20–30 minutes
The children will:
• Practice naming shapes and the location of
objects.
• Practice vocabulary for rooms in a house.
• Small groups (of at least five): the children take
turns using their bodies to make a picture. The
shape must represent something that is found in a
house. For example, four children make a table, and
the fifth child mimes sitting at the table and eating.
The rest of the class guesses what the object is, its
shape, and where it is, e.g. It’s a table. It’s square.
It’s in the kitchen. Once the class guess correctly, the
next group mimes their object for the class.

Warm Up: before using the slideshow

• Whole class or small groups: Call out instructions
and have the children move quickly to find shapes
in the classroom. For example, say: Find a square.
The children run and touch anything they can see
that is a square. Have them call out: It’s a square.
Quickly give the next instruction: Find a circle.
They quickly find a circle and shout: It’s a circle.
Continue for rectangle, oval, and triangle.
• Pantomime doing something you would do in
a specific room of the house, such as cooking,
sleeping, watching TV, showering. Ask the class:
Where am I? and have them respond, e.g. In the
kitchen. Invite a volunteer to mime an action and
continue the activity.
• Have children draw a picture of the interior of
their home. They should draw family members
and furniture in different rooms, using the shapes
they’ve learned. They can bring their pictures to
the next class and present them using sentences
like these: This is my (family member). He’s/She’s in
the (place).The (object) in the (place) is a (shape).
For example, This is my dad. He’s in the kitchen.
The table in the kitchen is a square.

Procedure: using the slideshow

• Before you switch on the projector or IWB, use the
pen tool to circle the word shapes in Slide 1. Play
Slide 1 and have the children name the shapes they
can see.
• Play Slides 2–5. Ask the children to read, listen,
and raise their hands whenever they see/hear a
reference to shapes on the slides.
• Play the slideshow again, pausing after each slide.
Have the children answer the question in each
caption. Then make a false statement about the
slide, e.g. for Slide 3 or 4: This is a bedroom or The
chairs are squares. Have the children correct the
statements, e.g. No, this is a living room or The
chairs are circles.
• Complete Interactivity 1.
• Complete Interactivities 2 and 3 in the same way.

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