What can you do?
Kindergarten Year 3 (Lesson 17)
Lesson Plan and teacher’s notes
The aim of the 40-minute lesson is to practice the form “I can” + verb. By the end of the lesson, the kids should be confident at answering the short form “Yes, I can!” and “No, I can’t!” as well as making the longer sentence “I can swim.” Don’t worry about drilling the longer negative “I can’t read” or such. You don’t want a bunch of kids going home telling their parents “I can’t swim! I can’t read!” Much better if they go home saying nice uplifting positive things, right?
Song: Hello Song
Song: One Little Finger
Model and drill the vocab by miming the actions/using the flashcards
Relay (divide the class into two lines, have the kids pass the cards and repeat them one by one along the line. Fastest team wins. Swap cards and do again etc)
Use the two teams to play paper, scissors, rock with the cards.
Song: Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
Stamp rally Q an A (ask and answer kids a variety of Can you xxx? questions with short and long answers. Get kids to ask you similar questions)
Do worksheet with kids tracing the words and circling the correct answer for them.
Game (bingo/3-hint quiz/missing)
Story book: I can Touch my Toes by Eric Carle
Song: Bye Bye
Worksheet
Flashcards
This lesson plan was adapted from a lesson in the textbook Tower Talk Kinder 3, available here.