Material
- Some flowers, of three different kinds.
- An elastic band.
Direct aim
To introduce to the child the function of the conjunction ‘and’.
Age of interest
From five years approximately.
Teacher’s presentation
- Place the flowers on the table.
- Say that you are going to write down what you want.
- Write down a phrase for each flower giving the color or any other adjective to describe the differences each time.
- When the child has given you each one separately, write down ‘and’ on two slips of paper in another color, and insert them between the nouns.
- When the child gives you all three flowers together, bind them together with the elastic band to stress the idea of togetherness.
- Ask the child to put out the symbols that he knows, and then ask the child ‘Which one told you that I wanted them all together?’ and then put out the pink rectangle for the conjunction.
- Do transposition before this as in the other exercises.
Exercises
- As in presentation.
- The child takes a box which is marked with a pink rectangle, and uses the conjunction within to join up the farm phrases (or for garage, aerodrome etc.), and then put out the symbols for them.