Ordering daily routines

Activity type: Games
Materials: 5 boxes, picture cards
Age group: 2-6
Time: 10 mins
Language: All

Activity description:
 
FOR SMALLER KIDS 

• On 4 of the boxes, stick one of the morning, afternoon, evening and night flashcards on the outside of each and place in different corners the room 
• In the 5th box, put different objects like small balls, blocks etc.. and put the box in the middle of the room.  
• Model the activity: hold up one of the flashcards (e.g. "eat breakfast") – say the word and pick up an object from the object box and point to the 4 boxes around the room. Ask "Which one?" and then go and drop the object into the morning box.  Say "morning" as you drop the object into the box. 
• Now let's start the game. Hold up a flashcard (any from the daily routines set) and shout out the verb (e.g. eat dinner). Get each child to come over pick up an object and drop it on the correct box. The other children can be encouraged to help.  Encourage the children to say the time of the day word when they drop the object into the box.  
• GO through all the picture cards. You can either do this slowly or do it really fast and get all the kids to pick up an object for each card to get everyone moving.  

​FOR OLDER KIDS:  

• Give the children a routine card print-out and a pair of scissors to cut out the routine images. 
• Ask them to put them in the order that they do them during the day.  
• On the wall tape the “daily time” card (morning, day, evening, night).  
• Now say the words for the different routines in a logical order and ask children to come and stick their routine cards in the right place.  

If you have a big group -
​you can let the children work in teams. Let then work out together what order the cards should go in. Encourage them to put words to their actions. When they decide where one card goes, ask them to tell the group what the card is and what time of the day it belongs to. You can also just do this exercise on the floor without sticking the picture up.