To kick off the year, we reviewed the basic parts of speech, nouns - verbs - adjectives - and adverbs. To make the lesson more interesting, I took the schools "Words of the Day" and wrote them all over a ball. The class created definitions of each part of speech before we began tossing the ball around the room and identifying a word on the ball. To make it challenging, the students didn't get to select the word they identified; Instead when they caught the ball, the teacher called out a hand (left or right) and a finger (thumb, index, middle etc.). The student needed to identify the part of speech under the finger indicated by the teacher. The students did a great job and had fun too! Check it out!
To demonstrate to the students what was expected of them, Mrs. Graham and Ms. Miller created their own iMovie for the preposition "about".
Chris and Jashua act out the preposition "across".
