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Second Grade
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UNIT 1: SOCIALIZING
Contents: Weather conditions, and basic classroom language.
Transversal Theme: Human Rights Education
Functions:
1. Talking about the weather.
2. Using basic classroom language.
Activity 1
Weather
Function: Talking about weather.
Content: Weather
Seating arrangement: P
Skills: L/S
MI: VL
Time: 15’
Materials: handout 1
Procedure:
1. Have the students sit in pairs
2. Paste the week calendar on the wall or board
3. Ask student A to chose a temperature and weather condition
4. Ask student B to say what season matches student’s A
description
Listening
Activity 2
Function: Talking about weather
Content: Weather
I: Individual, G: Groups, R: Rows, P: Pairs, W: Whole class, C: Circle Hmwk:
Homework
L: Listening, S: Speaking, R: Reading
VL: Verbal Linguistic, Inter: Interpersonal, Intra: Intrapersonal, LM: Logical Mathematical,
VS: Visual Spatial, N: Naturalistic, B: Bodily, M: Musical
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Seating arrangement: W
Skills: L/S
MI: Inter, VL
Time: 10’
Materials: Tape recorder, CD, handout 2
Procedure:
1. Distribute the handouts with the song.
1. Have students listen to the song.
2. Have the students sing the song.
Weather Sudoku
Activity 3
Function Identifying weather vocabulary
Content: Socializing
Transversal theme: Human Rights, Group Work
Seating arrangement: I
Skills: I,R
MI: VS
Time: 20’
Materials: handout 3, color pencils
Procedure:
1. Give the students hand outs
2. Students have to complete the Sudoku puzzle making sure no image is
repeated in a row, a column or a square. Students have to write the
name of images that is missing.
I: Individual, G: Groups, R: Rows, P: Pairs, W: Whole class, C: Circle Hmwk:
Homework
L: Listening, S: Speaking, R: Reading
VL: Verbal Linguistic, Inter: Interpersonal, Intra: Intrapersonal, LM: Logical Mathematical,
VS: Visual Spatial, N: Naturalistic, B: Bodily, M: Musical
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Students can color the images.
Activity 4
Pictionary with weather conditions
Function: Practicing vocabulary.
Contents: Weather conditions.
Seating arrangement: P
Skills: G/VS
MI: G/VL
Time: 15’
Materials: handout 4
Procedure:
1. Divide the class in two groups
2. Put the cards on the desk in a way that the images cannot
be seen.
3. Ask group A and B to choose a leader to draw an image on
the board.
4. Make both leaders to choose one card from the desk and
ask them to draw what they see on the board without
talking.
5. Make the rest of the students guess what the leaders are
drawing.
Ask both groups to choose another student to draw another image
once one of the groups gives the correct answer
I: Individual, G: Groups, R: Rows, P: Pairs, W: Whole class, C: Circle Hmwk:
Homework
L: Listening, S: Speaking, R: Reading
VL: Verbal Linguistic, Inter: Interpersonal, Intra: Intrapersonal, LM: Logical Mathematical,
VS: Visual Spatial, N: Naturalistic, B: Bodily, M: Musical
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Second Grade
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HANDOUT 1 WEATHER CONDITION CHART
sunny
rainy
warm
hot
snowy
cloudy
cool
windy
stormy
cold
HANDOUT 2 WEATHER CONDITION SONG
I: Individual, G: Groups, R: Rows, P: Pairs, W: Whole class, C: Circle Hmwk:
Homework
L: Listening, S: Speaking, R: Reading
VL: Verbal Linguistic, Inter: Interpersonal, Intra: Intrapersonal, LM: Logical Mathematical,
VS: Visual Spatial, N: Naturalistic, B: Bodily, M: Musical
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Second Grade
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IT’S CLOUDY, IT’S SNOWY, IT’S COLD!
It’s cloudy. It’s snowy. It’s cold!
Where’s my sweater?
It’s windy. It’s sunny. It’s hot!
Where’s my sun hat?
It’s rainy. It’s stormy. It’s cool!
Where’s my raincoat?
It’s cloudy. It’s snowy. It’s cold!
Where’s my sweater?
It’s windy. It’s sunny. It’s hot!
Where’s my sun hat?
It’s rainy. It’s stormy. It’s cool!
Where’s my raincoat?
I: Individual, G: Groups, R: Rows, P: Pairs, W: Whole class, C: Circle Hmwk:
Homework
L: Listening, S: Speaking, R: Reading
VL: Verbal Linguistic, Inter: Interpersonal, Intra: Intrapersonal, LM: Logical Mathematical,
VS: Visual Spatial, N: Naturalistic, B: Bodily, M: Musical
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Second Grade
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HANDOUT 3
1. Sunny
2. Cloudy
3. Rainy
4. Snowy
I: Individual, G: Groups, R: Rows, P: Pairs, W: Whole class, C: Circle Hmwk:
Homework
L: Listening, S: Speaking, R: Reading
VL: Verbal Linguistic, Inter: Interpersonal, Intra: Intrapersonal, LM: Logical Mathematical,
VS: Visual Spatial, N: Naturalistic, B: Bodily, M: Musical
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Second Grade
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HANDOUT 4 PICTIONARY IMAGES (weather conditions)
sunny
snowy
windy
snowy
hot
summer
cold
stormy
cloudy
fall
winter
cool
warm
spring
I: Individual, G: Groups, R: Rows, P: Pairs, W: Whole class, C: Circle Hmwk:
Homework
L: Listening, S: Speaking, R: Reading
VL: Verbal Linguistic, Inter: Interpersonal, Intra: Intrapersonal, LM: Logical Mathematical,
VS: Visual Spatial, N: Naturalistic, B: Bodily, M: Musical