I had been sharing Thursday with the kiddos how 2014 sounded so futuristic to many of us and her it was! Many of them had seen the Back to the Future movies (props to you parents!) and I stated that the "future" in the movies was NEXT YEAR 2015! It is always funny how we picture the "future" in our heads isn't it? My mom shared that her teacher in elementary school had had them write about what they thought the millennium 2000 would be like and she remembers including flying cars and jet packs. '99 did bring us the internet, however, many of us are still waiting on the flying cars!
I was ready to dive into verb tenses after break, but Thursday's discussion gave me an lesson idea for teaching verbs - at least future tense verbs. And thus was born "Back to the Future Verbs!" A grammar lesson.
For morning work, the kids drew pictures of what they thought life would be like in the 2050.
I was ready to dive into verb tenses after break, but Thursday's discussion gave me an lesson idea for teaching verbs - at least future tense verbs. And thus was born "Back to the Future Verbs!" A grammar lesson.
For morning work, the kids drew pictures of what they thought life would be like in the 2050.
During writing class, we discussed three simple future verb forms. We also glued our lesson insert into our Thoughtful Logs and did some power teaching to help us remember them which included running around the room in a line shouting "I WILL run, I am GOING TO run, I am RUNNING TONIGHT"
Then, as we went into independent reading and small group time, I encouraged them to identify at least one sentence using a future verb form. Many of them did and we shared during share time. After that, I shared that they would need to USE the different future verb forms during a creative writing where they answered future questions about themselves in the year 2050.
Finally, we reflected on the lesson and did a quick assessment check in which they wrote one sentence using each of the three simple verb forms.