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.