Plural Noun Review

So today we did a little spiral review of plural nouns and look at this bit of fantastic awesomeness...

She wrote the meaning of the academic vocabulary word: plural, and wrote the rule for -es!

I also LOVE that she checked off the ones she was sure of... Someone has been paying attention to all those little strategies tips all year!

Impressed!

We are Sooooo Possessive!

We are just now delving into possessive nouns. Today the students made their own anchor charts in their journals then worked together to brainstorm examples of possessives in our classroom, Willie's cage, students' table...
Then they worked independently to create a Thinking Map and created Possessive Noun Tree Maps!

We are on our way to becoming experts!

Collectively Collective Nouns are Coming Along

Ok. Well. I feel like we've made it through nouns, common and proper. We made it. They rocked it. Now.  Continuing with nouns...
 Collective nouns were a bear! A tribe of bears? A gaggle of bears? A pack of bears? Swarm? It was a rough one. 
Lots of reteach later, we tackled a Two-Fer. Collective Nouns AND the Bridge Map! 
Whoa!
I asked them to vote on how many they could do -completely- on their own. I got a range from 18 to 4. So we compromised on 10 but I'd secretly be happy with 5.
Here are just a couple...

RF: ___ is a collective nouns for a group of ___

Nouns!

Ok. Nouns are tough this year. I'm not sure why but we are struggling a bit with the concept of proper and common nouns. Last week was ALL about PPT - and they know a noun is a person, place or thing, but they are not seeing the difference between any old teacher and proper Mrs. Dixon. So we've been working on it. A lot.

We've done word sorts. Proper noun Tree Maps. Double Bubble maps comparing common and proper. We've done drawings. Worksheets. And then, there was the flapbook.

For some unknown reason (kismet)  I sent the flapbook to print and when I went to the office to get it, the printer had printed the flapbook on ENORMOUS cardstock. Instant group work!

I gave each kiddo an old TIME for Kids magazine to find common and proper nouns. They they worked in groups of 3-4 and these Smart Cookies...

1. considered
2. cut 
3. collaborated
4. discussed
5. glued
6. shared

We aren't, all of us, THERE yet - but we are on.our.way!!!