Noun game (group presentation one: Oral noun game)
How is this activity presented?
The directress invites a group of children to sit around the mat. She begins the activity by asking one of the children to fetch her something in the classroom. She may say: ‘‘please can you fetch, uh…’’. The directress exaggerates the hesitation over what she wants the child to fetch.
The directress explains to the child that it is hard to know what we are looking for if we don’t know their names, therefore everything has a name, and they are called nouns. She then asks the child again to fetch something in the classroom, for example, a pencil. When the child brings the object back to her she reinforces the name of the object.
She continues asking the rest of the children in the group one by one to fetch something in the classroom by naming the object. The directress and the children go through all the different objects that they brought back to the floor mat. She reiterates that naming words are called nouns, and thanks the children for working with her.
What does the child learn from this activity?
This activity increases the child’s vocabulary, it broadens the child’s knowledge, as well as this activity teaches the child the function of nouns.
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