Preposition Fun

Hi!! Just wanted to share an activity I had my second graders do today. They have been having a lot of difficulty with prepositions when writing, which is very common with ELL's. Since this year I am obsessed (yes, obsessed) with anchor charts, I created one that I found on Pinterest! I want to give credit where credit is due, but I could not find the original post, so if anyone knows whose fabulous anchor chart this belongs to, please, let me know! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE anchor charts because they are perfect for my kiddos. ELL's need billons a lot of visuals, and anchor charts are perfect!

My anticipatory set was giving each student several stickers. They were so excited and couldn't wait to find out what we were going to do! Who knew stickers would cause such curiosity? :) As I went over each preposition, I would pick a student to put their sticker where it belonged. I think it went really great because my kiddos were super engaged the entire time. With this lesson, I focused more on the types of prepositions that tell "where." Here is my version of the anchor chart I found online:

My sweet J.D. was placing her sticker on the anchor chart.

Here is the finished product (I did forget to add the word "prepositions," I think the stickers clouded my thinking :)

  

After we created our anchor chart, I had them sit down and write several sentences using different prepositions. When they finished, they had to underline the preposition that they used. They did so great with this! With every activity I have them do, I always try to add writing. 

Here are the finished products. (I only have 5 second graders in this group) One of them even graded her own work...hmmmm...teacher in the making? :) I think so!!!

Well, that was it! Let me know what you all think and what you would do differently!