Prepositions: Exercises

Age
7-8.

Materials

 * Miniature environment.
 * Object labels.
 * Cards with prepositions.
 * Long strips on which phrases are printed.

Presentation
Exercise 1:


 * 1) The child is given an object label, which he/she reads, then gets the object and places the symbols over the words.
 * 2) The same child does the same for a second object.
 * 3) Then the directress gives him/her a preposition card to place between.
 * 4) He matches the symbols to the preposition.
 * 5) The child puts the objects in the indicated relationship and copies the words into his journal and adds the symbols.
 * 6) Those cards are removed but the objects remain as the children each place objects in special relationships.
 * 7) Each time the result of this exercise is different.
 * 8) When the children work alone they choose the cards randomly.

Exercise 2:


 * 1) With the long strips, each child in turn takes one, reads it, executes the command, lays out the symbols and copies it down.
 * 2) Again the objects remain but the labels are removed as the child finishes copying.

Points Of Interest
The children may have prepositional commands in creative movement exercises: bodies in relation to one another.

Purpose

 * Point of consciousness: the function of the preposition is to put objects in relation to one another in a specific manner.