Verb: The Verb is Movement
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Age
6-9.
Materials
- Basket of one word commands
Preparation
Presentation
- If we have a group of marionettes that are not moving, they are simply objects without life.
- When someone comes along and pulls their strings, she makes them dance, walk, wave their arms; she gives them movement.
- The verb is movement.
- The children stand limp like immobile marionettes.
- The directress gives each one a verb command.
- As soon as the child receives the command, he begins to execute the action.
- "The marionettes have come to life".
- One by one the directress takes the command cards back from the children's hands.
- Each in turn stops the action to become limp once again.
Control Of Error
Points Of Interest
Purpose
- To understand that the verb signifies movement.
- To understand the function of the verb and all of its characteristics.
Variation
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