Fun Activities for Teaching Connection Sentence Stems in Kindergarten

📚 Fun Activities for Teaching Connection Sentence Stems in Kindergarten

This lesson plan provides engaging activities to teach kindergarteners how to use connection sentence stems effectively.

🎯 Objectives

• 🤝 Students will be able to identify connection words (e.g., and, but, because).
• 🗣️ Students will be able to use connection sentence stems to link two related ideas.
• ✍️ Students will be able to create simple sentences using connection words.

🖍️ Materials

• 📃 Chart paper or whiteboard
• markers
• ✂️ Sentence strips
• 🖼️ Picture cards (showing related items or actions)
• 🎲 Dice

Warm-up (5 mins)

• 🗣️ Activity: Connection Word Brainstorm
• 🧠 Begin by asking students what words they know that help connect ideas. Write their responses on the chart paper (e.g., and, but, because, so).

Main Instruction

Activity 1: Picture Card Connections (15 mins)

• 🖼️ Setup: Show a picture card (e.g., a cat) and then another related card (e.g., a ball of yarn).
• 📝 Instruction: Model how to connect the two pictures using a sentence stem. For example: "The cat likes to play, and it likes yarn."
• 🗣️ Practice: Have students take turns choosing two cards and creating a sentence using a connection word. Provide sentence stems like: "I like ____, and I like ____." or "The ____ is ____, but the ____ is ____."

Activity 2: Dice Game Connections (15 mins)

• 🎲 Setup: Create a die with connection words on each side (e.g., and, but, because, so, if, or).
• ✍️ Instruction: Have a student roll the die. Then, provide two simple ideas, and have the students connect them using the rolled connection word.
• 💡 Example: If the die lands on "because," you might say, "I wear a coat. It is cold." A student could say, "I wear a coat because it is cold."

Activity 3: Sentence Stem Fill-In (15 mins)

• 📃 Setup: Prepare sentence strips with sentence stems, leaving blanks for the students to fill in.
• 📝 Instruction: Provide stems like: "I like to ____, and I also like to ____." or "The ____ is big, but the ____ is small."
• ✍️ Practice: Have students complete the sentences, sharing their answers with the class.

Assessment

• 📝 Observation: Observe students during activities, noting their ability to use connection words correctly.
• ✅ Worksheet: Provide a simple worksheet where students can write sentences using connection sentence stems. For example:
  1. I like apples, ______ I like bananas. (and/but)
  2. The sun is shining, ______ it is warm. (because/but)
  3. I can run fast, ______ I can jump high. (and/but)