6 Warm Ups You Should Be Doing Every Day in Your Class

6 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