Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Verbs, Verbs, Verbs

Language Arts is a favored part of my day.  I love being creative with the curriculum and I love planning various mini lessons in order to break a long morning into manageable chunks.

Learning about verbs doesn't have to be bland.  We started off our morning by acting out some of the action verbs that you see on this chart.  Later we completed a cut out and sort activity in order to unscramble some rather garbled sentences and identify the different types of verbs within them.

The kids enjoy being active and have begged for more of these charades-type games.  The morning also consisted of word work with plural nouns (adding s, es, or ies) and some research into presidents of our nation's past.

I love how the kids complete various lessons and wear various hats throughout the morning - in this case, they were actors, assemblers, writers, and researchers.

We have some future actors in our midst, I think.

Cut, sort, arrange, glue, color.


Kevin working very hard as he learns about John F. Kennedy.


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