More important task is to 'construct' and 'say' simple English sentences from our words in our boxes. ;-)

11 - In, At, On, Under and Near (PSE)

We often hear questions like 'Where is something?" and we are not surprised to hear answers with words from nouns box and a word like 'in, at, on, under,...'.
For examples:

  a bird in my hand, money in the till, rooms in the house
  the clock at townhall, boys at home, a ship at sea
  a cat on the piano, books on a shelf, sauce on noodles
  a score under the pass mark, water under the bridge
  the house near the tower, a cafe near the post office

We use the words 'in, at, on, under,...' to say 'where' things are. That is, we use them to tell the 'position' of something by the position of another thing. These words are called 'preositions'.
They should go into the 'prepositions' box.

We will find more prepositions words to put in this box.
Where are they?
 
We will look for them in the city.
We will look over the hill, down in the valley, up over the mountains, on and off the highway.
We will look between garden beds by the cottage next to the greenhouse. We will look around the pond below and the meadow behind.
We will look outside the park and beyond the front gate. We will watch for cars moving on the roads further away.

Are we reading this aloud?
Please do (read aloud).
Please read to your buddy and listen to your buddy read to you.
Remember, "look, listen and speak"?

[Dear Teachers,

We can see objects around us. We can tell where each object is by saying that it is 'in', or 'on' or 'next to' another easier-to-spot object.

We can take a short excursion around a building then play a memory game to recall where objects are. We may draw a map showing positions of objects we can recall. We may then ask "where is object X?" We expect to hear an answer like "object X is ___ object Y".

Please check that we have a name for every object in our 'nouns' box. Please also add a word for any new 'prepositions' word into the 'prepositions' box.

More important task is to 'construct' and 'say' simple English sentences from our words in our boxes. ;-) ]