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Saturday, April 20, 2013

2nd Grade Nouns (updated)

In 2nd grade, the kids have learned imperative and declarative sentences, word order, and writing sentences correctly.  Now, the are learning about nouns.  Here is an activity they did where they had to classify nouns under persons, places, or things.

Activity from www.theteacherwife.blogspot.com





Proper and Common Noun Activities 


Activity from Scholastic Book Grammar Manipulatives Kids Love







Verb Tense Foldables (Updated)

4th graders have been busy learning about adjectives, figurative language, the senses, and just recently verbs.  The recent activity they did was to create a foldable, where they had to sort the verbs in past, present, and future tense.  They always love to do foldables, and were motivated to do this activity.





5th Graders have been working on prepositional phrases and verbs.  In this activity, they made verb tense matchbox foldables.  They had to read and write sentences under the flap of past, present or future tense, and identify the verb. 



Thursday, April 18, 2013

3rd Grade Kinds of Sentences and Pronouns

It's been awhile since my last post.  I've been a busy bee with planning, grading, and PPAA practice with the kids.  Nevertheless, the 3rd graders have been learning about alphabetical order, the kinds of sentences, word order, writing sentences, and just recently pronouns.  These are just a couple of things they have done...

Classifying kinds of sentences




Activity idea adapted from
www.flipflopteacher.blogspot.com