Poppin' Adjectives!

Poppin' Adjectives!

We were introduced to Adjectives this week! 

I started my lesson by asking my firsties to describe ME!

(This is very risky because firsties have the tendency to be very honest at times)

I was pretty pleased with our Adjective Web!

Then I had my students describe a gift bag with their groups. (not pictured) I told them the groups that could use good adjectives to describe our gift .... would get what was inside the gift bag! Of course all the groups did WONDERFUL!

So they each got ....

They got to eat the candy and then complete a sheet listing adjectives that described their candy! Here are some images of them enjoying their "Adjective" treat!

Contraction Surgery

DOCTOR...DOCTOR

These words need SURGERY... STAT!!

 

Today I introduced the concept of contractions!

I LOVE INTRODUCING CONTRACTIONS!

 

Every year I prepare this activity, and I get excited every time!

(I guess I just like to role play in my classroom, it's so much fun!)

 

When my kiddos entered the room from our RTI time they found me wearing a medical mask!

 

The questions flooded in:

Mrs. Jessica are you sick? Are you ok? Why are you wearing that? What's on your face?

Well I got their attention!

 

 

I introduced the concept of

 

taking two words and shortening them! I call the apostrophe a "Band-Aid."

They just LOVE IT!

Then I give each student a mask, gloves, and a Band-Aid.

 

I issue out to them their first patient. They first must work in pairs, because they are training to be doctors.

 

 

After they mastered their first surgery with their partners, I assess them to see if they are ready to do surgery independently!

Check out my room full of doctors!

I'm hoping that in 20 years or so some of them come pay their old 1st Grade teacher a visit, and I can learn that some of them aspire to be a doctor! I'll just pull out this picture and take credit for their inspiration!

 

 

 

 

 



Nouns, Nouns, Nouns

I'm LOVING those NOUNS!

 

My class hit NOUNS this week ..... and we hit the HARD!

 

Not the prettiest anchor chart you have ever seen .... but it served it's purpose WELL! Check out what it looked like after our Introduction to Nouns and our classroom brainstorming of WORDS...

 

After our Noun Introduction and Brainstorming session we watched a FUN video about Nouns! BEWARE this tune will be stuck in your head for hours! Just click on the link to watch!

 

Insert Foldable!
The kiddos love making these!
When you open up the flap you will find 3-4 examples of each kind of noun!