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Thursday, February 21, 2013

We Are the Light of the World!

Recently we participated in a door display contest for Catholic Schools Week. Here is what we created:

While we didn't win, we had a great time creating this fun photo display. Each child took a picture to look as if they were floating away......very cute!

Angry Verbs!

In language arts, the students have been learning about sentence structure and syntax since day 1! We began with the simple constructs of a sentence (period, capitalization), learned what parts a sentence has, and what a noun is and what part it plays in a sentence. This brought us to verbs! Children can only sit and listen for so long so I try to find fun ways to use the skills being taught. For verbs I thought of an obvious favorite.....Angry Birds, or Angry Verbs if you attend 2nd grade at St Agnes. The purpose of this activity was to get the kids to create sentences using all types of verbs, and identify the verb in the sentence. Once this was completed they were given an Angry Bird coloring page, allowed to color it, and finally write their sentence on the bird. Once this flock of verbs was finished we created an Angry Bird game board to attach all our “Angry Verbs” to. Students love the display and don’t even notice that they are identifying verbs! Below are links for the Angry Bird coloring pages.