PREPOSITION HIKE
I usually take this hike fairly early in the year. The students love it. The bulletin board that I create after the hike is always a big hit with the students. They love seeing their pictures up in the hallway. Teachers have commented to me that the bulletin board helped them to finally understand prepositions!
Before the Hike
I do a brief introduction to prepositions with the students. I created a movie trailer that introduces prepositions using movie clips from their experiences at 6th grade camp. Then I conduct a couple of lessons on how we use the prepositions and why they are important in our writing. Some years, we have played the game Pictionary using prepositions before the hike.
During the Hike
I usually take this hike fairly early in the year. The students love it. The bulletin board that I create after the hike is always a big hit with the students. They love seeing their pictures up in the hallway. Teachers have commented to me that the bulletin board helped them to finally understand prepositions!
Before the Hike
I do a brief introduction to prepositions with the students. I created a movie trailer that introduces prepositions using movie clips from their experiences at 6th grade camp. Then I conduct a couple of lessons on how we use the prepositions and why they are important in our writing. Some years, we have played the game Pictionary using prepositions before the hike.
During the Hike
- The students are assigned a variety of prepositions to demonstrate on the hike.
- With some prepositions, I have only a few students demonstrate the preposition. Other times, I have the entire class demonstrating the preposition. One example of the whole class is running across the soccer field. Or they stand along the tennis court net.
- When the student is ready, I take a photograph of them.
- Print out the pictures of the prepositions.
- Make labels of the prepositions being demonstrated.
- I created a bulletin board in the hallway where I posted all the pictures with the label of the preposition being demonstrated. I created two large trees out of bulletin board paper to frame it, and add leaves on the trees and around the top of the bulletin board. Then I title the display: "the Nature of Prepositions."
- Back in the classroom, the students write preposition poems. I usually require the poem to be four lines long. Each line is a prepositional phrase. The very last line, reveals who or what is experiencing these places. Some students have added a line at the beginning that states: "The bird flies..." and then continues the prepositional phrases. The ending line explains why the bird is going to all those places.
- For a two different worksheets for the preposition poem, click here for one. Click here for a second one. One has more detailed instructions.
