Language Arts Day 3 was awesome!

Today was another great day!  The students and the classroom teacher loved the book Animilia which was used for the alliteration lesson I did today.  The students learned about alliteration using words that I gave them in an envelope and they had a lot a fun make up sentences using the words.  They did a great job with this and were helping each other to find meaning with the words.

Tongue twisters were a little challenging to teach because they understood that they needed to use a letter and alliteration, but they were not able to understand the rhythm part of the tongue twister.  This is something that I would like to work with them more on.  They can do the making sentences and alliteration portion but I would like to work on the rhythm part of it.  I took them through step by step of making the lists of the nouns, Proper nouns, descriptive words, and verbs.  This really helped for them to understand what they needed to do.  Some students were frustrated but I worked with them and they understood better.

The only thing I would change would be the noise level of the students.  They are all having so much fun making their poems but it is hard to give directions sometimes.  I used her bell system today so I will continue to use that to keep structure in the classroom.

Overall today was great! And the students were very involved hand were shooting up like crazy to test out their tongue twister skills and say their alliteration sentences.  The biggest complement I felt was the teacher asking if she could use this lesson!  That was awesome!