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Bean Bag Decides

Have a student toss three bean bags onto the mat. In the order they landed ask the student to make a sentence using each kind of word respectively. If they cannot make a complete sentence from the words ask what type of word is missing to make a complete thought. For example: Bean bags land […]

Race to It

Choose a student to say a word while the other students see who can be the first to jump on the correct classification of that word on the mat. The first to the correct answer calls out the next word.

Make a Story

Have several students choose a homophone on the mat and stand on it. (One from each group) Have the student closest to the start begin a story with a sentence or part of a sentence that includes the word they are on. Continue down the mat with each student contributing to the story.

Bean Bag Race

Have a student toss a bean bag onto the mat. The rest of the students try to land their own bean bags on a homophone to the original one. When someone succeeds they call out the group of homophones.

Make a Story

Have several students choose a homophone on the mat and stand on it. (One from each pair) Have the student closest to the start begin a story with a sentence or part of a sentence that includes the word they are on. Continue down the mat with each student contributing to the story.

Bean Bag Race

Have a student toss a bean bag onto the mat. The rest of the students try to land their own bean bags on the homophone to the original one. When someone succeeds they call out the pair of homophones made.

Spell It

Have students spell the new word they made with the prefix included.

New Word

Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word (e.g., happy/unhappy, tell/retell)

Make an Equation

Give students a Y intercept and slope and have them write the equation it makes on cards and place on the mat.

Y Intercept Formula

Write several functions in Y Intercept form. Ask students what the Y intercept and slope are for each equation.