Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Stacked: Learning with Styrofoam Cups

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Check out my post at We Are Teachers: Ways to teach English Language Arts (featured above), Math, Social Studies, and Science using styrof...
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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Syllable Hunt

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Students are given a word and stick it to their shirt. They must go around the room and find peers that have a word with the same nu...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Action Verbs

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Objective : Students will silently act out action verbs and try to guess what verbs their peers act out. Objective : Wearing special...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Wind Spelling

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Practice spelling with the power of air! Kids are split up into teams. Teams are given a word. They figure out the spelling. They write ea...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Word Family Dance Steps

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Trace around your shoe to create a shoe shape. Next, write different words from various word families on the shoe shape. Then, mix them up...

Donut Words

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Kids practice creating three letter short vowel words with donuts! Write A, E, I, O, U on 5 paper plates. Then, give kids a box of paper...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Playground Prepositions

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Take your students out on the playground to explore prepositions!
Sunday, June 9, 2013

P.O.S. Musical Plates

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materials : paper plates (3 for each child) Write a noun, verb, or adjective on each paper plate. Lay the plates out in an open space out...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

SCOOT - IPN

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Practice irregular plural nouns by playing Scoot! Kids scoot from one chair to the next and write down what they think the plural is for e...
Saturday, June 1, 2013

Time Warp!

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Lay out the time warp mats , give kids a sentence, and have them run to the correct verb tense mat! Once on the mat, they identify the ver...
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HOT WAD

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Practice vocabulary with a twist on hot potato! On scraps of paper write down different objectives for kids to conquer! Then, wad up the ...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Spelling in Braille

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Practice your spelling words in braille from the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry ! You will need dried beans (or round cereal...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Digraph Die

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Students take turns rolling the die. After each roll, all players must come up with one word that contains the digraph. When finished playin...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Car CRASH! Contractions

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Two words crash and what happens: a contraction! Integrate contraction surgery with car crash contractions. Two words crash and come ...
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Morse Code

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Turn off the lights, grab a flashlight, and practice your spelling words using Morse Code ! Kids have to pay close attention to the flickeri...
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Monday, August 20, 2012

3 in a Row: Vocab.

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Classic Spelling Tic Tac Toe: Kids choose three activities in a row, to do with their spelling or sight word list throughout one week....
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Forget X's and O's

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Replace X's and O's with synonyms and antonyms in the classic game TIC TAC TOE. One player thinks up synonyms for the giv...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Name Synonyms

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photo via anna langova:  public domain What does your name mean? Can you find synonyms for your name's meaning?
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

REWRITE!

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Practice using a thesaurus by rewriting a simple song or poem. Check out Oh' Boy 4th Grade and Brannack's Bobcats take on The ...
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BOGGLE for the Smart Board

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How many letters can you chain together to form a word? Point value: 3-4 letters = 1 point, 5 = 2 points, 6 = 3 points, 7 = 5 points, 8...