Grammar Under Construction

Our room and teacher were briefly transformed for the day! 

We have been really struggling to understand nouns, verbs, and adjectives.  So Mrs. Wanke thought we needed to have some fun with these words to help us remember the difference. 

Thank you Mr. Munson for letting us borrow your supplies to transform our room. 

To start the lesson off, I pulled out my "tools."  Students had to name the tool that I held up. That was our noun.  Then, students had to list things that the tool could do. These were our verbs.  Lastly, students had to describe the tool.  These were our adjectives.  We did this activity whole group for three different tools. (saw, tape measure, and a hammer)

Next, I had giant bricks with either nouns, verbs, or adjectives written on them.  Together as a class we sorted these brinks and build 3 different walls.  A noun wall, a verb wall, and and adjective wall. 

Next, it was time for our centers.

At the first center we had to color code our blue prints.

At the second center, we had a pile of real rocks with words written on them.  We had to sort the rocks next to the correct construction vehicle. (Noun, Verb, or Adjective) Of course we had to wear our helmets!

The last center, we had to BUILD sentences with nouns, verbs, and adjectives. I wrote nouns, verbs, and adjectives on large Duplo blocks.  I also color coded the nouns, verbs, and adjectives to make it easier to sentence building. 

We had to pick one of each. Then, we would place the words on the floor and write the sentence directly on the floor. We call this floor graffiti and we love it! We had to wear safety vests at this center. 

We had a blast during our construction day!  I am confident that we have a good grasp of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Bring on second grade!