The Magic Crayons has some amazing ideas to practice prepositions of place, which I am working on now with 2nd grade! My 2 favorites are:
Preposition Races!
I divided the class into 2 teams, lined them up across the classroom from 2 desks (one for each team), and gave each team a ball or a pencil case (there were balls in one class because their homeroom teacher is also a gym teacher, but, in the other class, we made do with pencil cases). Then, I called out, “Put the ball/pencil case under the desk!”
The first student to correctly place their team’s ball/pencil case scored a point, and the game continued with different prepositions until each student had had a chance to participate!
Garbage Bag Prepositions!
For the game, we went outside and stood in a circle. I said one prepositional phrase (e.g. in the bag) and passed one garbage bag to the student on my left and another to the student on my right. The kids had to get in the bag, say, “IN THE BAG!,” and pass it on to the student next to them as quickly as they could. The garbage bags eventually met at one student, who became the new “teacher” for the next round, handing the bags to the students on either side of them and choosing one of the prepositions for their classmates to act out.
¡Buena suerte!
Inglés con Christina 