L & S 13 : Tell Me Where To Go!

Skill : Listening and Speaking
Year : 1
Topic : Around the School (Directions)

This lesson is more to reinforce their knowledge about directions that they have learnt earlier. Initially, I taught and drilled them about which is left, right and straight. Then, we sang the Kiri, Kiri, Kiri, Depan, Belakang song (which I learnt in PLKN about 7 years ago) in English version. 

To reinforce their prior knowledge, I decided to make a school tour using the pupils as an old school train, where they make train sound when we started moving and whenever we stopped. I encouraged them to not make much noise and keep moving slowly because they are an old school train (so yes, they keep their voices low and walk slowly.

I prepared the teaching aids which looked like traffic light, explained to them the meaning before we started the school tour so that they aware on where to stop, ready and go.

We just simply go around the school and at any junctions, we will stopped and the pupils get the chance to choose and say out the direction of the place they want to go. Through this, the pupils will easily remembered where is left, right and straight.

At the end of the lesson, I tested them by giving instructions to turn left, right and go straight on their way back to their class, and they succeed in doing it. I also provided them with a homework related to this activity. They just simply need to fill in the blanks based on the roads that they have taken previously. I've provided the link of the worksheet below, if you'd like to change the map, its up to you. I drew it myself and scan, then put text boxes on it to make it proper and even neat.

For the traffic lights, I'll tell the steps to make it. 

What do you need?

• Tissue paper rolls
• Origami paper (red, green and yellow)
• Markers (black or blue)
• Scissors
• Double sided tape
• Laminate Machine
• Laminate Film

How to do it?

1. I started with cutting the edge of the origami papers into hexagon shape.
2. Then, draw the borders of the hexagons.
3. Then, simply write the words in the prepared hexagons.
4. Laminate them.
5. Take tissue paper rolls and press it to make it straight.
6. Place it at the back of the hexagons using double sided tape.
7. Done!

It really helped me to give them more instructions when I used that. They'll automatically stop and go whenever I put up any of it. So, that's all! Good luck! :)