I have been incorporating ordinal numbers in my unit about the house. Most students have caught on to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd as I do large vocabulary flashcards at the beginning of class and then ask them follow up questions regarding spelling and accents in the target language. "¿Hay acento? ¿Dónde?" They've caught on to "La primera a", "La segunda i", etc very quickly. I'm always trying to find creative ways to work with vocabulary. I found an idea on pinterest and have been thinking of ways to tweak it and make it more interesting.
I wrote the ordinal numbers on styrofoam cups. I also am big on labeling sets so that if one gets separated from the group I can easily identify which group it goes with-this is why there are 10s all on the back side of this one. (I do this with flashcards as well.) I made 12 sets of these so that I could put the students into partners. I have come up with some ideas for what to do with these cups.
Get the students into partners. Shuffle the cards so that they are NOT in the correct order. Then have one student time the other for how fast they can put them in order. Since my students are super competitive I would put the best times on the board. Then they would shuffle the order and then the other partner would have a turn. I have also been thinking about adding a rule that only a certain number of cups could be taken off the block at one time to make it more interesting/complicated.
Does anyone have any other ideas of things I could do with these cups?
What activities do you guys do for ordinal numbers?
