Horsing Around with Verbs

Date: 4/18/16

Teacher: Niki DeLaurence

School: MSU Elementary

Class: KIN 355

Grade Level: 1-2
Time: 9:10 AM

Equipment Used: 10 Printed signs with verb

sentences (posted around the classroom), One
grid page per group for nouns, adjectives and
verbs.
Targeted NASPE Standard(s): 1,2,4,5
Specific Objective: Students will test their of previous knowledge sentence
structures (Nouns, Adjectives and Verbs) with a focus on verbs. Students will
identify verbs and act out the corresponding action for each verb. This knowledge
on verbs will be used to perform basic motor skills and activities.
Concomitant Objective: Students will work to identify adjectives and nouns while
working as a team, having fun and staying active.
Time
Procedures Followed
Materials
Warm Up: If you can hear me, touch your knees. If you
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can hear me, touch your toes. If you can hear me, put a
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marshmallow in your mouth.
Transition: Good morning class. Today we will be
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working on a English Language Arts lesson but we will
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need a little more space to move around. I need
everyone to stand up and push in their chairs, so we
dont run into anything during our activity.
Today, we are going to be working in groups. I need
everyone to count off into groups of six
-Send groups to various locations around classroom.
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Set Induction: -As you know, over the past few days we
have been working to recognize units of a sentence
including nouns, adjectives and verbs. Can someone tell
me what a noun is? An adjective? A Verb?
-Today we are going to put our knowledge of these
words into action.
Learnable Piece: The goal of today is to recognize and
act out the words we see on the papers posted around
the room. Each group has a grid sheet with a section of
nouns, adjectives and verbs. As you read each paper
around the room, write down all of the words you
recognize from each type. By the end of this lesson, I
want an example of each of these sentence units.
Presentation of New Material/Directions:
-In your groups and around the room, you will see 10
different stations and sheets of paper at them.
-Each station has a sentence with a combination of
verbs, adjectives and nouns.

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-Each group will initially work to fill out their grid with
words that fall into the categories of verb, noun and
adjective.
-After each group identifies the words in each category,
they will move to the next station but here is the twist!
-Whatever verb was used in the sentence at your station
is the way you need to get to the next station. For
example, if the sentence was about walking like a crab,
you crabwalk to your next destination.
-Remember to work with you team to find all the verbs,
nouns and adjectives you can! Also remember to have
fun.
-SAFETY: Use only the edges of the classroom to move
from group to group. There are too many backpacks,
desks and chair to trip over in the middle. Be mindful of
those around you, pay attention to other groups moving
in different ways and keep yourself safe!
Transition: None needed here.

Activity: The lesson will take place around the outside

walls of the classroom. Teacher using BTW methods
and circling the room to provide positive pin pointing and
monitor progress/safety.
Stations

Area of chairs, desks and

backpacks. Not being utilized
for safety purposes.

Possible Modifications: Adding more sentences to the

mix.
If students are finishing too quickly, coming up with
sentences for all of them to continue moving around the
room.
Asking for volunteers to create sentences including
verbs, nouns and adjectives.
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Lesson Review: Who can tell me a noun that they
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anyone give me an example of a verb that the group had
to act out?
Sometimes it can be helpful and fun to act out the things
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we use in different subjects to help us remember them,

such as sentence units! Thank you!
Notes: