Adjectives activities

Fun ideas for teaching adjectives and descriptive writing that are just right for October and Halloween week in the primary classroom.

Aren't adjectives just so much fun! They are one of the most important parts of speech that you can teach. Why? Because adjectives make writing more meaningful, vivid and interesting. Adjectives are the key to getting students to become accomplished, creative writers. Let me give you an example. Here is a sentence without adjectives: The bird is in the tree. And here is a sentence with adjectives: The baby bird is in the lush, green tree. See the difference? The second sentence helps you to…

Montessori homeschool might be the perfect combination. To have the freedom to be Montessori outside and to integrate movement while learning is a critical component of a child's development. This week we continued our grammar

Today I'm going to share with you one of my favorite lessons to teach!It's the HOOK I use to begin our unit on adjectives.I gather my kiddos on the carpet, and show them my brown paper bag. I tell th

This post provides you with a host of alternative adjective activities to implement with our printable card game: Adjective Match. This game is available for purchase at TpT by clicking through from our blog post which gives you a close up look and ideas for implementation of the activities with first grade students.

What is an Adjective? Teaching Aid for Adjective #popcorn

Need some fun ideas for teaching adjectives to your Kindergarten, 1st, or 2nd grade students? Keep reading for some engaging activities! Activity #1: Have students use adjectives to describe a real object. When I first begin teaching about adjectives, I like to point out that kids already know a lot of describing words! I have […]

Grammar — Keeping My Kiddo Busy

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We have been working hard learning about nouns and adjectives. This week we introduced verbs... and now we are getting all these words confused! AHHH! SO, now we are reviewing and sorting to keep it all straight! Here's a few things I came up with to help us out! We started with adding some flipbooks to our writer's notebooks. Noun Flipbook Verb Flipbook Adjectives Flipbook I also made a word sort for a little extra practice. Noun, Verb, Adjective Sort I also made this little pop-up game. I…