Action Verbs

Teaching language skills has never been my favorite part of teaching language arts. I prefer teaching writing. So.....I've been working on spicing my language skills up a bit. Even though the water shuts off when I sing in the shower, I love to sing during class. This is the reason most of my kids work hard to pass, lol. So I made up a lesson for teaching action words. This part of my lesson is on identification as well as brainstorming action words. I have to say my students and I quiet enjoyed the song and they even wrote their own. We played a modification of the headband game. It was so cool seeing students act out the words but what was even better was hearing them use synonyms and antonyms as clues. (One happy teacher) Here are a few pictures.

Writing center

Math regrouping

Hundred zap
To teach students when to regroup.
Put students in pairs. Give each student ones blocks, base ten rods, a hundred flat, one die, and a meter stick.
Students take turns rolling the die and adding cubes (numbers). When cubes equal ten students exchange cubes for a ten rod.
If student forgets to regroup before giving die to other player, other player can call zap. The student has to remove all tens and ones thus starting over.
First player to reach one hundred wins.

Native Americans

I read books. Students read books. We looked at maps and globes. We discussed why Native Americans were originally called Indians. We made tepees out of paper bags thanks to teachingwithnancy. We wrote a story using symbols and pictures. We practiced making and identifying patterns then the students made their own pattern on their headband. We learned a lot and had a great time. 

Thanksgiving

We are working on super sentences. Students we given the prompt; the turkey flew. We brain stormed adjectives for turkey, adverbs for flew, and where. The students expanded the sentence three times and finally published their sentence along with a turkey.

Bat

This week we are studying about bats. Creepy or Cute? Of course, I think they are creepy but my students think they are adorable. Maybe by the end of the week they will agree with me, lol.
I started off the unit graphing whether students thought bats were creepy or cute. We completed K-W-L chart. We will complete the L as we learn. Then, we watched a video from youtube called Bats, Bats, Bats. Its a very catchy song. I read the book, "Bats" by Lily Wood from Scholastic. We used yarn to demonstrate how small the bumblebee bat is which is the smallest bat and how large the flying fox bat is which is the largest bat. Students made bats out of construction paper. They turned out so cute. They were very different just like the close to 1000 species of bats. We read several books I made about bats. We watched Magic School Bus Goes Batty. It was wonderful!! And I didn't go batty just got a little creeped out.


Creativity at it's best.



Of course they had to hang upside down.

Gotta love all the colors

 

 

The students wrote super sentences. We started out with the sentence, The bat flew. Look how super their sentence turned out. We colored a bat and posted our super sentence. Writing is so much fun! We had fun and learned a lot.