Welcome to our “How to Extend a Garbanzo Lesson” series, where we highlight specific Garbanzo lessons and show how to turn them into more than just a single lesson or activity.
In this post, we’ll focus on the medium length English lesson, “Where is Bonzo?” l
“Where is Bonzo?” is part of the Garbanzo English Core10 lesson path, with 33 content and challenge blocks, with sentence-length content blocks. It has 4 core vocabulary words/phrases:
This, is, animal, place
There are 10 additional vocabulary words:
Where? bird, school, bathroom, in, classroom, cafeteria, hallway, gym, library
In “Where is Bonzo?” students follow Bonzo around key places at school.
To prepare
For this lesson, you’ll need some paper to label stations in your classroom AND the lesson “Where is Bonzo?” (English language lesson) pulled up in your Garbanzo teacher account in lesson preview mode. Finally, you’ll need one die.
You’ll need to set up a Gallery Walk before students get to class. Each station on the Gallery Walk should be one of the places that Bonzo visits, with the exception of “School” (you’ll announce that to the students when the lesson begins).
Number them 1-6:
- Bathroom
- Classroom
- Cafeteria
- Hallway
- Gym
- Library
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Draw a picture of Bonzo/or a macaw on a piece of paper. This will move around the room with your students on their Gallery walk.
Alternate option: Have each of your students draw a Bonzo at the start of class as a campanada!
The activity
Project the lesson preview. Read aloud the Core and Additional vocabulary, and explain to students that they’re in a school right now.
Read through the lesson with your students by projecting each content slide and reading it together! Use the challenge slides like processing questions to help clarify the meaning of what you’re reading.
As you read each new “This is…” sentence, have students walk to the corresponding spot on the Gallery Walk.
It might look like this:
Read together: “This is a classroom.”
Students walk to the Gallery Walk station that says, ‘Classroom.’
Read together: “A classroom is a place.”
Move Bonzo to the classroom station.
Read together: “Bonzo is in the classroom.
Read together: “Is Bonzo in the classroom or in the library?”
Students respond: “Classroom!”
Next, play a version of 4 Corners Knockout
Ask the question, “Where is Bonzo?” or “Where do you think Bonzo is?” Have students move to one of the Gallery Walk signs.
Roll the die!
Say, “Bonzo is in [one of the locations]”. Anyone standing at that station with that number is OUT. They head to their seats. They can still participate by holding up the number of fingers that represents their guess, but they can’t win the game.
Play until one player remains!
