Grade 1 Activity Dictionary Race

As you already know first grade begins with a lot of alphabet work. And since using a dictionary requires a knowledge of the alphabet here's a worksheet for first grade. Dictionary Race, it's called and the name is self-explanatory. It can be done by having the kids work individually-in which case the activity will end sooner, and that's not always a good thing.-or you can have them work in teams.

• So, maybe you've put the kids into their lunch groups with dictionaries for each kid ready to go.
• Of course they can see the words they are to look up on the worksheet so that ought to make finding them a little easier, but they don't start searching until a teacher says, "Go!" (wave a checkered flag if you can find one)
• The kids search for the word together, which takes the pressure off of individual kids, and when they've found it they signal that they have(more about that later) and the team that has the word tells the other members of the class the page number and reads the definition for everyone to write down.
• The fastest team gets a point.

About the signalling. The funner it is the better, so maybe you can have a squeaky toy set at each lunch group and the first kid to find the word can hit it and make it squeak. Just like a buzzer on a quiz show. I hate having to buy things for lessons but it shouldn't be too expensive to pick up some squeaky toys at a pet store or wherever things like that are sold.

It goes without saying (and yet I feel compelled to mention it) that the kids and the teachers should be using the same dictionary. The students in Kasama, at least my schools, are using the New Horizons Dictionary 6th edition. Yours probably are too.