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Where do they go?

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This is an activity I plan to do when I get back to a real-life classroom. You separate the class in groups of 4. Each person in the group uses a white square paper to draw a scene where different animals live. I made an ocean, a forest, a farm and a house. The students then have to come up with 6 names of animals that live in the scene they are drawing. The group can work as a team to come up with the names. You can see my scenes and animal names in the photos. Students assemble the standing triangle,

which I have shown here in other activities, and glue all 4 scenes together.  
The teacher collects all the different sceneries and hands them out to different groups so that each group is going to use another groups' sceneries to play. When the teacher says GO, each group has to place the names of the animals in the correct scene. Some animals can be used in 2 different scenes, fish for example, but you can only have 6 names in each scene. The first group to place the names of the animals in the correct place, wins. The groups share where they placed the animals with the class. It would be better if each member of the team talked about a different place, so everybody gets a chance to speak.


        



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