Lesson #1: Recognizing Verbs, Adjectives, and Nouns
This marks a new semester! I am now teaching at Spanish Oaks Elementary in a fun classroom of third graders. After a short getting-to-know-you activity, here it what we did!
Opening Activity:
First we all learned the first verse of the simple song "Buffalo Gals."
Then we added movement/actions that illustrated individual words in the song. Words like: "walking," "street," "gal," "see," "buffalo gals," "dance,' and "moon" to name a few. I suggested actions for the first half of the song, and the students enthusiastically created actions for the second half. We performed the song several times with all these actions!
Application Time:
For the application part of the lesson, the students returned to their desk and helped me write the lyrics to the songs on the whiteboard. Then I asked students to raise their hands and tell me which words involved "doing something." The kids supplied the answers, I underlined them in a different color, and then pointed out that these words are VERBS.
Next I did the same thing with all of the NOUNS and then ADJECTIVES in the song.
Then we returned back to our standing circle and performed the song again. But this time, the students were instructed to only do the actions for the verbs and to omit the other actions. It was easy for the students (and me) to get carried away and do all of the actions unless we were really thinking!
Lastly, we returned to looking at the lyrics on the whiteboard. I erased a verb here, an adjective there, a noun there--leaving the underlined colors that showed what kind of word it had been. Then the students suggested words to go in those blank places--creating different lyrics. We then sang this version as a class one last time!
Music Standards Met:
3.M.P.10; 3.M.CR.2
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