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Or Gives Choices

Conjunctions Connect Ideas

Day 98of 180
Week 20of 36
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand how 'or' presents choices in sentences

2

Create sentences using the conjunction 'or'

3

Recognize different options when using 'or'

📖 Scripture Connection

Joshua 24:15

“If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve”

— Joshua 24:15 (WEB)

Demonstrates making a choice, just like using 'or' in language

📦 Materials Needed

  • Conjunction cards
  • Worksheet
  • Pencils
  • Coloring materials
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (5 min)

Gather students and explain that 'or' helps us talk about choices

💭 Review Question: Can you think of a time you had to choose between two things?
2Teaching (8 min)

Explain how 'or' lets us show different options in a sentence

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • 'Or' means you can pick one thing or another
  • It helps us talk about different choices
  • Examples: 'Do you want milk or juice?'
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What are some choices you make during the day?
  • How do you decide between two things?
3Activity: Choice Sentence Creator (10 min)
worksheet

Students create sentences with 'or' showing different choices

📝 Instructions:
  1. Draw a line to connect two things that could be choices
  2. Write a sentence using 'or' about those choices
  3. Illustrate your sentence
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Provide word bank for choices

Challenge: Create more complex sentences with multiple choices

4Closing (2 min)

Review how 'or' helps us talk about choices

📝 Review Questions:
  • What does 'or' help us do?
  • Can you make a sentence with 'or'?
🙏 Prayer:

Dear Jesus, thank you for giving us the ability to make choices and communicate clearly

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn about 'so' and how it shows why things happen

💎 Memory Verse

Joshua 24:15

“Choose today whom you will serve”

— Joshua 24:15 (WEB)

🎯 Activity: Repeat verse while making choosing motions

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Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Children are learning how conjunctions connect ideas and present choices

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Encourage creative thinking about choices
  • Help child understand 'or' means selecting one option
🤔 Common Struggles:

Understanding that 'or' means selecting one of multiple options

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Ability to create simple sentences with 'or'

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Create a choice board game
  • Practice 'or' choices during daily activities
  • Make a poster of different choices

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