Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Look out, American Idol!

We are having fun with nouns and verbs this week, singing and rapping our way into feeling more comfortable with these parts of language.  We know that our memoirs should include oodles of details, but we can't lose sight of the rules.  It's just like driving in the car with your parents.  It might be fun to have the radio going, but you still have to remember to drive the speed limit and stay on the right side of the road.  The same is true in our writing.  It's important to have fun painting a mental picture for the reader with details, but we have to remember to put capital letters and punctuation in the right places, so the reader can actually read all our great details.  Working with capitals and punctuation was tough for many of us.  We weren't quite sure how to form a complete sentence, so we took some time this week to analyze the parts of a sentence.  We learned that complete sentences always have a noun and a verb.  The noun is the who (or the what) that did something.  The verb is the action that the who (or what) did in the sentence.  Knowing the parts of a complete sentence can help us put capital letters and punctuation in the right place!  Then everyone can read and enjoy our stories!  Do you still need a quick review of nouns and verbs?  If so, just sing and rap your way through these hits from class, and you'll be spotting nouns and verbs everywhere!!!  Then show off your knowledge of nouns and verbs by leaving a comment.  Give us a complete sentence and then tell us the noun and verb.  Use this example as a guide.  Miss Hoffmann ate 15 donuts!  (Noun=Miss Hoffmann Verb=ate)  Leave a comment by Monday of next week and you will earn 3 success tickets.

A noun, a noun
can easily be found
inside of a book.
You just have to look.
It’s a person, place, or thing…
Like a church or diamond ring
a mom, a toy,
a president, a boy
a desert, a classroom,
a stage, a sonic boom
a penny, a star,
a lamp, or a jar.
Nouns are easy to find
with this rap inside your mind.
So take a quick look
inside your favorite book.
It’s oh so easy cheesy!
So find some nouns please-y!


The verb, verb, verb
The verb is the action
The verb, verb, verb
The verb is what’s happening
Walk, run, sit, cry
Dance, laugh, clap, try!
The verb, verb, verb
The verb is the action
The verb, verb, verb
The verb is what’s happening
Walking, running, sitting, crying
Dancing, laughing, clapping, trying!
The verb, verb, verb
The verb is the action
The verb, verb, verb
The verb is what’s happening
Walked, ran, sat, cried
Danced, laughed, clapped, tried!
The verb, verb, verb
The verb is the action
The verb, verb, verb
The verb is what’s happening

3 comments:

  1. I was wondering why Hailey came home rapping about nouns and verbs! :)

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  2. A boy surfed on waves. (noun=boy verb=surfed)

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  3. Woohoo, William! Come see Mrs. Z to get your tickets tomorrow! I'm proud of you.

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