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Grade 2 Net Games: Week#1

5/21/2015

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Checking for prior knowledge, getting them tuned in

I've opened up my last unit of the year with my grade 2 students this week at Nanjing International School.  To begin the unit, the key question that I posed to them was 'What do you know about net games?'. The students did a short walk and talk sharing their answers to the key question. I recorded their answers in my journal. I had  two different grade 2 classes today share their answers to the key question. They came up with some great ideas with the  second class building upon the ideas of the first class.  As you can see, I included some clip art images of net games on the visual to help stimulate their thinking. All of the student answers you see came from them. 
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This was the first grade 2 class to answer the key question. The visual was created after this class.
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This was the second grade 2 class to answer key question. As you can see, the answers from first class already posted. These students had to come up with new ideas.
Once they had shared their answers, I  had them take part in a number of different activities using ping pong paddles and ping pong balls, both individually and in pairs. Please check out the video below to see the 6 different activities done in today's class. The kids were super engaged not only physically, but  also thinking and sharing what they felt that they knew about net games. A great start to the unit! Please check out video below to see the activities done today. 

What They Already Know About Net Games
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Combined student generated ideas from 2 different grade 2 classes. Checking for prior knowledge to to opening up unit effectively.
4 Comments
Ben Landers link
5/20/2015 09:57:42 pm

Great ideas as always! I love the self paced challenges to differentiate instruction.

Thanks!

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Robin Walker
5/22/2015 11:43:50 pm

Thank you for the great clip Andy! My weakest area is net games. Watching you teach gives me great, new ideas! I'm already looking forward to next year!

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Adam link
5/24/2015 05:09:26 am

love it andy! Will be using this tomorrow with my elementary students and class sizes of about 35-50!! Sure they will enjoy it! Have a great Sunday!!

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Ingrid
7/11/2016 12:41:50 am

Love the ideas. You are sooooo lucky to have a gym .

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