January 16, 2008
We completed a word sort sheet, and filed it in our binders under "Word Work."*
We finished the "Magical Study Guides" for prefixes and suffixes.
We did a brief pronoun quiz.**
We watched the Grammar Rock segment about pronouns "'cause sayin' those nouns over and over can really wear you down."
Students created a "circle book" to use in studying nouns and pronouns.
The created the "book." Then they copied definitions and example words for common nouns, collective nouns, compound nouns, proper nouns, personal pronouns, indefinite pronouns, interrogative pronouns, and demonstrative pronouns.
*Word Sort Challenge
➢ Sort the words below into four categories.
➢ All the words in each category must have something in common that they don’t have in common with the words in the other categories.
➢ The categories do not need to have equal numbers of words in each.
➢ Be able to explain how you sorted the words. There is more than one right way to do it!
animation
entertainment
builder
collector
banker
digestion
actor
detachment
creator
celebration
advertisement
advisor
education
amazement
boxer
contentment
director
** Above each word, write a pronoun you could use to replace it.
1. Sally sold seventy flashlights to Sally’s sisters, so Sally won twenty minutes of giant Play-Station at lunchtime.
2. Irene said about Irene, “The I-Pod is Irene’s. Irene won it in a drawing.”
3. Don dreamed Don was a doughnut at a doughnut party. In the dream, when Ms. Dorsey tried to eat Don, Don screamed, “Don’t eat Don!”
4. Now, write a definition for pronouns:
[I found the cartoon at http://anthropologynet.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/bizarro-pronoun.jpg]
