Fourth Visit! (October 30, 3018)

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For this visit, we did three different activities to support the ELA standard the class was learning for the week: parts of speech.

The first activity that we did was the “Name Fame” game that we played on our first day. The past couple of visits, a number of students had asked to play this again, so I found a new way to integrate this same game into different curriculum. As we went around the circle, each student stated their name and an adjective about them. Miss Adair reviewed the concept of an adjective before we began, stating that it is something that describes the noun; this could be a physical description, feeling, or anything that appeals to the five senses. Most students chose to state their feelings or a positive word about their personalities: excited, funny, sad. There were a few students who also chose to describe some physical attributes such as hair color. I was impressed with the variety that the students produced in their adjectives. As many of them appealed to their emotions and feelings, we were able to take a moment to foster emotional development and unity as a class.



The next game that we played was “Yes, Let’s…” This game focused on students identifying and producing verbs. We stood up in the same circle that we used for the first game and went around the circle in a similar manner. The person whose turn it was stated “Let’s [insert an action/verb].” The rest of the class would repeat “Yes, let’s [same verb the person just said]” and then did the action together. The turns would go around the circle in this way. After the game, I asked the students to name off some of the verbs we used. They did so successfully and showed that they grasped the concept we explored together.


("Let's have a dance party")

("Let's do the splits")

The last activity that we did was “Charades” to solidify the class’s idea of nouns. The class was split into small groups. Each student was given a slip of paper with a noun on it and had the task of acting it out for their group. Their group members had to guess what was on the slip as well as they type of noun it was (person, place, thing, or animal). Once a noun was guessed correctly, the turn moved to the next person in the circle. All of the students did well with this activity and were not afraid to give their acting their best efforts. There are very creative students in this class!



I love being able to work with the students in this class as well as Miss Adair! I learn something new every time I visit the class and am working implement that each time I teach.

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