Lesson 7: Goodnight Moon
Online Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-t9LBXe4_M
Vocab Focus:
- Good Morning
- Good Afternoon
- Good Evening
- Goodnight
- Goodbye
- Hello
- Nice to meet you.
- How are you?
Songs:
Activities:
Student Greeting-
Draw a time of day on the board (a sun for morning, a moon for night, etc.) and have the students go around the room saying the proper greeting to each student. For example, if there is a sun on the board, all of the students will go around saying “Good morning” to each other. You can also have them shake hands.
Goodnight!
Draw or hold up different objects. Have the students say goodnight (or another greeting) to each object.
Act it Out-
Say a greeting, such as “good morning,” and have the students act out waking up. (another example: You say, “goodnight” and have all the students pretend to go to sleep).
Games:
It’s Time for Bed!
Face away from the classroom, so you cannot see the students. Read the book out loud, and as you read, have the students walk around the room. Randomly stop reading and say, “Goodnight, Moon!” When you say this, all the students should drop down on the ground and pretend to be asleep. Turn around and face the classroom. If you see one of the students moving, they are out. The last student is the winner.
Moon Walk-
Print out or draw pictures of different objects mentioned in the book, such as mittens or mush. Lay them out on the ground in a circle (note: the number of pictures should be around the same number of students). Have the students walk around the path in time to the music, which plays for a duration and then stops. An object is then called out, and the person standing on the picture of this object wins!
Cow Jumping Over the Moon-
Draw a picture of a moon and place it on the ground. Go to each student, and say a greeting to them. If they say the right response back (for example, if you say, “Good Morning,” they should say “Good Morning,” back) they get a chance jump over the moon. Have them jump over the moon on the ground. After a while, move the moon farther away from the students. See who can still jump over the moon.