Hi! I'm getting evaluated on the 14th and I need your help please.
I will be teaching about living and non living. Does anyone have any good gestures for the characteristics of living things? (all need food,air,water, they move and reproduce)

Thank You in advance,
Melba Q.

What grade level?

Ooopps! I forgot. I teach 2nd grade.

melbaq
You may want to use two gestures for each one. For living things, you could suck in air, showing that they breath air. You could also drink an imaginary glass of water. Then of course non-living things would be the opposite. Hope the 14th goes well. Keep us posted.

Food: Hold your left hand out flat, malke a scooping motion with the right as though you are eating from a bowl.

Air: Put your hand flat on your chest lift it off and shrug to mime breathing. Make it dramatic for fun.

Water: Hold your right thumb and little finger out. Tip it back as though you are drinking. This one is especially fun if you say "goik, goik, goik," as though you are drinking.

Movement: Wave your hands all around your head as though swatting at flies.

Repropduction: Hold one hand out, make a circle with your fingers. Hold the other hand up behind it, making the same circle. Pull your hands away from one another dramatically and say "Poik!" in a high pitched voice.

Thank You!!!