Silly Outfits

Materials: Foam sheets (various colors), glue, scissors, yarn, markers.
Preparacion: Body shapes: Cut body shapes from pink foam (1per student). Clothing: Cut out different types of clothing from different-colored foam (enough for all students). Hair: Cut yarn into small hair-size pieces.
Directions: Distribute Body shapes and hair. Have students draw on faces with markers and glue on the hair. Distribute clothes and have students glue them onto the bodies. Encourage students to choose different colors for the different clothes.
Invite different students to come up and describe the outfits on their foam bodies.

Buttons, Buttons, Buttons!

Materials: Large collection of old buttons.
Directions: Divide the class into groups of four of five. Place a pile of buttons in the middle of the desk. Give groups commands for sorting the buttons according to their size, their color or the number of holes.
T: Find all the blue buttons. Find all the big buttons.
Then have students make patterns according to their size, color or number of holes.
T: Find a big button. Find a small button. Make a pattern: big, small, big, small.

Weather Dance

Materials:
Different types of music (slow, fast, quiet, loud), Weather Symbols cutouts.
Directions: Play different types of music and hold up different Weather Symbols cutouts. Encourage students to perform actions that reflect the corresponding weather and music.

Clothing Poster

Clothing Poster
Materials: Scissors, crayons, paper, glue, old fashion magazines or clothing catalogs, construction paper (1 per group).
Preparation: Divide the contruction paper into three columns. Draw a sun at the top of the first column, a snowman at the top of the middle column and a cloud with rain at the top of the third column.
Directions: Divide the class into groups of four or five and give each group a sheet of construction paper. Have students identify the weather symbols at the top of each column. Distribute crayons, paper and magazines or catalogs. Have students cut out and glue or draw pictures of clothing in the columns that correspond to the type of weather. Then have groups bring up their posters one at a time and talk about the clothing.
T: What are these?
SR: They're blue sandals.
T: Are they for hot, cold or rainy weather?
SR: Hot.
Display the posters around the classroom.

Making Clouds

Materials: Large glass jar, hot water, small cloth, ice water.
Directions: Soak the cloth in ice water. Fill the jar halfway with hot water. Wring out the cloth and place it over the mouth of the jar so that part of the cloth falls into the jar. As the warm air rises and cools, little clouds will form near the cloth. Explain to students that this is how rain is made.

Snowball Toss

Materials: 2 pairs of white socks, 2 waste paper baskets, masking tape.
Preparation: Roll the socks into "snowballs." Place two lines of masking tape on the floor one meter away from the waste paper baskets.
Directions: Divide the class into two teams. Have teams line up in single file behind each line of masking tape. Make sure the waste paper baskets are at equal distances from the lines. Have the first member of each team come up and try to toss the "snowball" into the basket. Repeat the procedure until all the students have had a turn. Every time a student tosses a snowball in the basket he or she wins a point for his or her team. The team with the most points at the end wins.

Moral and civic education

If a student has arrived late to this class, ask Why were you late today?
Ask Why is it important to arrive on time? Ask students to speculate about what happens when someone arrives late to class: the class activity is interrupted, the teacher has to explain the activity again, etc.
Explain that people who always arrive late are being incosiderate to their fellow students and to their teacher.

Health education

Some students may be worried about their weight. They may be tempted to skip meals, especially breakfast. Explain that we need breakfast for energy. If we don't eat a good breakfast, we feel tired and cannot work well in class.
Remaind students that they should eat three meals a day. On the board, write Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Divide the class into three groups. Assign one meal to each group. Students make a list of suitable foods for their meal.
Discuss the results. Explain that there is some food that we like but really don't need, such as candy, cake, ice cream and sodas. It's healthier to eat fruit and drink water or juice.
Explain that if we want to lose some weight, we should eat slightly less in each meal, choose food carefully and do exercise.

Social studies: Who does the chores?

Materials:
Paper, string, stapler.
Preparation:
Cut paper into strips (several per student).
Directions:
Review family members and chores vocabulary.Point out that all the members of the family do the chores at home, not just the women.
Ask students if their moms work harder at home than any other member of the family.
Have students make a list of the chores that they and other members of their family could do to share the chores more equally.
Students write sentences explaining how they can help at home: I can make my bed. My dad can take out the garbage.
Staple all the pieces of paper to a string to make a banner.
Hang the banner across the classroom.

Science: Making a compass

Materials:

Per pair of students: a magnet, a cup of water, a cork, a needle.

Directions:

Write the following instructions on the board:

1. Rub a magnet 50 times across a needle, always in the same direction.

2. Cut a piece of cork, so you can have a small circle.

3. Push the needle through the cork, from one end of the circle to the other. Label the cork N, S, E and W (the needle should go from S to N)

4. Put the cork and needle in a cup of water.

5. Place the compass on the table and watch what happens!

(The needle should move and point to the nearest magnetic pole-either north or south.)

Divide the class into pairs and distribute materials.

Read the instructions with the class. Demonstrate each step. Students follow the instructions and make the compass.

Pairs write a route in their notebooks to follow: Walk five steps north and then 20 steps east.

Two pairs exchange routes and use their compasses to follow them.