Common Proper and Possessive Nouns

This is a neat video that takes it real slow when explaining the difference between the nouns. It starts off with a story with a space alien sent to study humans, so stick with it for a minute or two!

Nouns School House Rock

Day and Night Craft and Writing

I am trying to incorporate a craft for each story, just to get creative juices flowing and for some of my students who have poor handwriting to work on fine motor skills.  Since our theme is the day and night sky and we are focusing on poetry I was going to give them chalk and a black piece of paper to draw the night sky. In addition we are going to write a poem using an outline. My class has done this several times and they always come up with creative stuff.

____________ looks like___________                    Night looks like dark
____________sounds like__________                    Night sounds like bats
____________feels like____________                    Night feels like cold
____________smells like__________                     Night smells like campfire s'mores
____________tastes like___________                     Night tastes like hot dog roasts
_____________ is _______________                      Night is fun


Some times they get stuck on the harder ones like what night smells like, but I try to get them to focus on a night time event like a camp out or BBQ that runs late or a sleep over!!

Long I- igh Geraldine

Mixed Phonics Review

 

These are from Mr. Thorne, who does Geraldine the Giraff. He reveiws the long vowel sounds and the many differant spellings.