Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives.... Oh My!

Over the past few weeks we have been studying nouns, verbs, and adjectives in our kindergarten class.  So often I hear the older grade teachers talking about how their students don't know these things so I thought I would introduce them in kindergarten so that the kids could at least be familiar with the words.   However, my students caught on great and love coming up with examples for nouns, verbs, and adjectives even though it seems adjectives are a bit more tricky. 


We have watched movies, listened to songs, found examples, and so much more in our study.   One of the favorites was when we learned the "verb rap" song from Have Fun Teaching.   Let's just say it gets stuck in your head.  :-) 


Here is the link to the song...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ineCCpqpZrM




This week to kind of wrap up everything students wrote a sentence about an object (either a die cut chick or popsicle) and then had to use highlighters to highlight the nouns, verbs, and adjectives in the sentence.  I'm pretty safe in saying that the "highlight" of the lessons was the kids using highlighters as many of them said they had never gotten to use them before. :-)


They did a great job and could find the different parts of the sentences.  Check out some of our work below...

Nouns= Blue

Verbs= Pink

Adjectives= Yellow

Using iPads to label nouns in our world

I don't remember exactly were I first saw this idea but I just loved it and have using it in my classroom every year.  This week we learned about nouns. I am always so impressed with my kids on their ability to find nouns (once of course we review and practice for awhile).

To get them practicing sounding out words and relating nouns to their own life we used the iPad to take pictures of our classroom and then labeled them with the nouns we saw in the pictures.

To do this the students used the app called Skitch.  It's easy to use and the kids can take the pictures right in the app and then just tap to type.  After about five minutes explaining and modeling using the Apple TV linked to my iPad my kids were ready to go and boy did they have fun!  They each had to label 3 nouns before they could take another picture and do it again.

Scrapbooking Shapes

My students just love using new apps and displaying their learning.  It always amazes me how just after a short demonstration on an app they can pick it up and go to town.  This week we have been reviewing 2-D shapes.  I was playing around with a few different apps and found one to scrapbook.  I loved the ease, creativity, and options it allowed so I want to find some way to have my students use it.  I thought that using it to document shapes in the world around them would be great, at it seems so did they.


To do this we used the app called ScrapPad.  It allows you to make scrap book pages right on the iPad with built in backgrounds and text features.  The camera is also built in so doesn't require switching between apps (always important when working with kindergarten students.).

The students choose a background and then decided what shape they were going to look for.  Then they just used the built in camera to take pictures of those shapes in our classroom.  Finally they used the text feature to label their shape collage.