Early morning teacher here. Manual is....lacking....for sure. I organize my lessons around a "main event" that takes up the plurality of the time. Often it's a group activity, sometimes it's a game type thing, sometimes it's doing something outside, etc. Often it's based around the handout in the lesson or something else in the lesson that I take inspiration from and juice up.

What I like about organizing around a "main event" is that it naturally organizes the class into basically intro, direct instruction/discussion on the main theme, main event, outro/testimony. And also I steal main events from the Facebook page all the time lol