Charades- Lesson Plan

Title: Animal Charades

Essential Question: How can children use pictures of animals to describe and act out animals, giving true descriptions and characteristics of each animal?

Materials: Squares of paper with animals on them, bowl

Animals: cat, dog, giraffe, monkey, elephant, turtle, horse, cow, fish, kangaroo, rabbit, bird, lion, sheep, bear, and pig.

Procedure:

·        Give direction of charades

o   one child picks one object out of the bowl

o   The child will act out or describe the animals they see on their paper

·        Go over each animal, asking what color it is, what sound the animal makes, or what does this animal do?

·        Choose one child to go first

·        The rest of the children will guess what the actor is acting or describing.

·        The person to their right goes next.

·        Repeat this until the time runs out or each person has gone.

  This lesson focuses on everyday animals to play a game of charades. Charades is a game in which players guess a word or phrase from  pantomimed clues. The students will act out the animals, giving clues to their guessers. This is a fun activity that can be used for spelling  or vocabulary words.