More Interactive Skills Block Fun

Today in skills block we talked about synonyms and how we should use vivid vocabulary in our writing.  After exploring a thesaurus, students brainstormed lists of synonyms for words the teachers put on the board.   In the pictures you can see the students writing their words in categories.  We've also included the finished product - some of the best words that "popped" into our heads.  The kids will be encouraged to use this word wall in their writing.  

Interactive Skills Block

In our class we start each day with an interactive skills block.  This week we played a relay game to review nouns, verbs, and adjectives.  Our teachers wrote a list of words on the board and we lined up in two teams.  We took turns adding a letter to the line in front of the word to identify it as a Noun, Verb, or Adjective. If we found one that was incorrect, we could correct it on our turn. When all of the words were taken we sat down.  It was more important to have the right answers than it was to be done first.  We had fun and showed off our knowledge of words at the same time!