Saturday, October 4, 2008

Visit from P.C. and Muscular Verbs

Visit from P.C.
P.C. dancing (sorry the lighting is not good)
Students showing their muscles and their muscular verbs.
Muscular verb list

We had a visitor come to our school on Tuesday. P.C. the drug and alcohol awareness car came to speak to the students about staying away from drugs and alcohol. In Writing this week we learned about muscular verbs. Muscular verbs are action words that truly describe the action.
Ex: The boy stepped over the water. (regular verb: stepped)
The boy leapt over the water. (muscular verb: leapt)
We read the book Stellaluna because it had a lot of muscular verbs such as clambered, murmured, gasped and many more. The students then brainstormed and came up with more muscular verbs. The list is pictured above. They came up with some really terrific muscular verbs.

I also want to brag on them. We didn't have anyone turn a card this past week. I am VERY VERY proud of them!!!! I tried a new seating arrangement and it is really working well.

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