As of about 30 minutes ago I have officially completed all of my coursework for my ESL endorsement and couldn't be more relieved! Woohoo! Now what will I do with all of my spare Wednesday nights instead of sit in a windowless sub-zero temperature room? Nashville and Top Chef come to mind...
Moving on, I'm trying my hardest to be consistent with my blogging so I thought I'd update today with a fun little activity I whipped up this week! In first grade we are working on our "I Can" statements which currently include producing asking sentences and using appropriate punctuation. I was trying to think of a fun and interactive (yet structured) activity that would help my kids grasp this concept and I think I found a lesson keeper!
I started by introducing our BIG question mark. We talked about what a question mark does and words that the question mark likes to use to ask all of the things he wonders about.
Then, I put an interesting picture up on the board. We practiced using our question words to produce asking sentences about the picture. It was a bit of a struggle at first, so we made sure to emphasize that questions are things we WONDER. Sure, I still got a few "I wonder I think that's cool" but hey, you can't win every time!
Then, I put SUPER cool pictures at each table and gave each kiddo a recording sheet complete with an "asking word" word bank. The kids spent time at each table looking closely at the pictures and recording one "asking sentence" that they had about each picture using the words in the word bank and, of course, a question mark! It was a SMASHING success...the kids loved it! What a fun way to get the kids really thinking and talking to one another about the pictures!
Click the picture below to download this fun activity for free!
This is an AWESOME activity! Thanks so much for sharing ")
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