Verb bulletin board ideas

Great Bulletin Board! First Grade. "Angry Verbs"

I have to be honest here. I arrived at school and soon found out that I had completely forgotten to make any language arts plans for this week. I knew that we would be covering verbs, but I hadnt pr

Love this colorful verb anchor chart!

One of my favorite Language topics to teach each year is my Strong Verbs Unit! I love teaching it and the students love the hands-on way to study Strong Verbs and Synonyms! I love that by the end of the unit, you can really see the difference in the students' personal narratives, especially when it comes to using a variety of words in their writing and using a variety of tools to find new words. It's great to see the students taking their own initiative to go get thesaurus, use MS word to…

**For the new school year, 2012-2013, students in Room 121 created an updated version of Angry Verbs. CLICK HERE to check out the newest post--featuring tons of pictures and writing! After being inspired by this Angry Verb bulletin board using the Angry Birds, I had my students review verbs as well by writing a sentence on an angry bird and underlining the verb/verbs. During class project time on Monday (when some students were in Orchestra), a few students covered the door with butcher…

I can't believe it's only Tuesday...Seriously? I already feel like I need the weekend for a break. Part of the problem is that it was my day for some of my Littles to take the WELPA. It's a language test for the ELL Littles. Don't ask what it stands for cause I really don't know. I am sure that I have been told in numerous meetings, but it didn't stick :) This afternoon, 13 of my Littles were pulled to take this test. The 13 Littles that weren't ELL stayed with me. It's one of those…

Source: bing.com via Abbey on Pinterest Q: I recently read a blog from a new SLP (speech-language pathologist) describing an activity using

With the high ESL population at our school, language skills like verb tense is a real issue. And, unfortunately, it's not as noticeable when we do

Surfin Through Second is having a Classroom Theme Linky Party. It started a few days ago, but I'm considering myself fashionably late to this party. :) I've never shared pictures of my classroom on here, so I figure I might as well do that at the same time. I do have some changes I want to make this year to make it more uniform. My classroom has kinda been a hodgepodge of things I've found online on other great teacher blogs. I've kinda had a running theme of blue, green, and pink. This year…