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Warm Ups You Should Be Doing Every day in Your Class.
Lessons are better understood when learners have been
prepared. There are various reasons why children should be prepared before
every lesson. The chief among is the easier assimilation of new concept or
skills.
There 7 Warms Ups every teacher can do every day. There
could be more. But in this discussion we are going to focus on the 7 Most
Important, Effective and Efficient.
SPEED MATHEMATICS
In this activity, the facilitator asks learners simple
maths questions which they should answer in a limited time. The facilitator
award marks for correct answers. Participants with high scores are declared
winners.
DID YOU DO….?
In this activity the teacher asks learners series of questions
beginning with
“Yes ………… or No …………..All answers should be in
complete sentences. The questions may be in either previously taught lessons,
general knowledge, etc.
FACTS GAME
In this activity the teacher asks learners to give
some facts about people, animals, plants, etc. The group which gives all the
facts correctly within the given time are declared wines.
WORD CHAIN
In this activity, the teacher provides a word for the
learners. The learners to use the last letter of the word to form a new word. Example
Come, Enter, Resign, New, etc.
Alternatively,
This activity can be played using balls. A learner who
is able to form and spell a word using the last letter of the given word,
throws the ball to the next learner to use the last letter of the word to form
another word.
JUMPING GAMES
In this activity, when a learner gets an answer
correctly, he or she jumps.
ALPHABET GRID
In this activity the teacher arranges key concepts
taught in class alphabetically and associate various concepts with the Letters
of the Alphabet. Example if the learners learnt “Food” we can have the
following ……………
A – Akple
B – banku
C – Caco
