Noun Town!

This week we got to use our knowledge of nouns to make Noun Town!  We used different colors of post it notes to represent people, place, thing, and animal nouns.  Each child wrote and illustrated their own 4 nouns.  Then they added them to our whole class Noun Town.  We had a great time and everyone loved creating their nouns they'd find in a town!

 

Show me your evidence...

Thanks again (as always) to all of our Mystery Readers!

 

 

The big question I keep asking is "how do you know this" or "show me the evidence".  Instead of just giving answers we are not working on telling or showing where the evidence to prove the answer is.  We've started this with using our reading books.  Working on partner groups they've been working on answering questions about the story but then they have to write down the page that the evidence can be found.  This has taken lots of patience from them because sometimes they say "but I just remember it".  I have to remind them that sometimes you need to site evidence and give proof for your answer.  They are getting better and better at this!

Complete Sentences!

We've been working hard on writing complete sentences that are 1st grade quality.  The major focus has been on making sure the first letter is capitalized and the end has punctuation.  With a bit of focus on this we've been doing so much better over the past few weeks. 

 

Nouns, verbs, and adjectives!!!

Today we played guess the noun!  We got in partner pairs and each child took turns finding a noun in our room. Then they used adjectives to describe the item to help their partner guess what they were hiding behind their backs.  Once everyone got a few turns we used our dry erase boards to write a sentence about our noun using adjectives and some even used an adjective!!!  It was some super fun noun, adjective, verb review!!!

The hunt for nouns!

All week long we've been learning all about nouns.  All different types of nouns, noun categories, and nouns in our environment.  We've had the opportunity to talk about them, look at them, watch a video about nouns, and write about nouns.  We even got to go on a noun hunt around our room.  Everyone got to go around the room and find or think of various nouns and write them under the correct category.  They had to find people/animals, places, and things.  Some friends used their previous experiences outside of our classroom to think of items we don't have in our room like animals or places they could go.  They all were great at helping if someone had a question or needed assistance finding, writing, or spelling a word.  Overall it was a wonderful hands on learning experience all about NOUNS! :)