We love our games in 1st grade. We played how do you spell the long O word game. They had to write the word on the board to get the point first. Then the other friend used the word in a sentence to earn a point. This way both teams had an opportunity to earn points (and take a learning turn :)!
We've been working on identifying subjects and predicates. After identifying them in sentences by circling and underling them we took a more hands on approach to working on the concept. Each table got a set of dice and they rolled them to make a sentence. Some sentences were silly or even impossible. They then identified the subject and the predicate in the sentence and illustrated it. From there they took turns reading their sentences to their friend and the peers got to identify the subject and predicates. With this all being said we are all pretty awesome at identifying the subject and predicates!!!
