Play the farm dog and herd the flock. Sheep carrying prepositions go in the blue pen, every other word goes in the orange pen. Free, no login, plays in the browser.
Best for: grades 2-5 · identifying prepositions · 8-12 minutes · desktop, Chromebook, tablet
How to Play
Hold and drag to run, or use WASD and the arrow keys.
Push sheep toward a pen by running up behind them.
Press Space or tap Bark to scatter the whole flock and move them faster.
Right pen earns 10 points, wrong pen costs 5 and kicks the sheep back out. Five rounds, ten sheep in the last one.
Classroom Ideas
Before playing, build a class list of prepositions on the board and check which ones show up in the game.
After a round, have students pick three prepositions they penned and write a sentence using each one in a phrase.
Skills & Standards
Recognizing prepositions: under, over, behind, between, during, toward, among and more
Telling prepositions apart from nouns, adjectives and verbs
Understanding that a preposition tells where or when
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1.I: use frequently occurring prepositions
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.1.E: form and use prepositional phrases
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1.A: explain the function of conjunctions, prepositions and interjections in general and their function in particular sentences
