Classroom Teacher Integrated

Name of Activity: Meet Your Neighbor Action Verbs

Academic content: language arts

Purpose of Activity: To allow the students to get to know each other during the beginning of the school year in a non-stressful environment.

Prerequisites: The students should know how to read the verbs that are written on the cards.

Suggested Grade Level: 2-3

Materials Needed: pairs of cards with action verbs written on them

Physical activity: various locomotor & non-locomotor skills

Description of Idea

Variations:

The verb cards can be harder action words that allow for movement, but may not be as easy to act out.

Use the same principle with other parts of speech, i.e., nouns, adjectives, etc.

Assessment Ideas:

After the activity, the students will sit back at their tables/desks and share with the rest of the students information learned during the activity.

Adaptations for Students with Disabilities:

The activity can be like a game of "password" where the students have to move from person to person describing their word without actually saying the action verb to find their partner. Then they can act out the action verb or not, once they have found their partner. The students still have to read and comprehend the meaning of the action verb.