Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 75
Sphere words
apple, onion, orange, pea, potato, tomato, tennis ball, basket ball, table-tennis
ball, eye, head, sun, moon
Follow-up
• Teach the children the chant about spheres. See Box 76. The stressed
syllables are in bold. Ask the children to stamp their feet on the stressed
syllables, and spin around on the words spin, spin, spin. For the last line,
they clap and stamp on the stressed syllables.
• You could adapt this activity by asking the children to find examples of
other shapes, like cubes, cylinders, squares or circles.
• For other chants and raps, see Activities 1.11, 2.7, 4.4, 5.1, 5.7, 6.1.