Last year we had the quick tip on how to keep minicards together for storing, but however hard I tried I always seemed to end up with a big pile of mixed up cards at the end of the year. 🙂
You can try this activity to give you a hand with your spring cleaning.
- Put the students in groups.
- Put a huge pile of cards in the middle of the desk/floor.
- Get the students to race to arrange the cards in theme order.
Dead easy. If your students have done phonics then you can also do some nice alphabet practice by putting them in alphabetical order (under pressure adults often seem to get confused when you have to go to the 2nd or 3rd letter!) and you get your cards back in at least somewhat of an order. 🙂
Thanks to everyone at ACET last week, I learnt so many ideas. Including this one – thank you! 🙂
Be genki,
Richard
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Keeping my cards arranged and easy to find is always a little difficult. Remember, I’ve modified my own sets of mini-cards in red, blue, green, and yellow so they can also double as One Card Left cards. I also try to limit duplicates, so despite apples appearing in “Do you like food?” “I’d like some food” and “Fruit Market,” I only have 4 apples cards (red, yellow, blue, and green). So it is necessary for me to ALWAYS organize my cards after using them (put all the apples together, etc.) so that when I need to put together a set for say Fruit Market as opposed to Do You Like Food? I just need to find the appropriate 4 cards for each food I need.
Of course, as Richard suggested, whenever you can get the kids involved to do the organizing for you, it really does offer some great review.