Pumpkin Verbs

 My first graders have been learning about verbs.

We started by brainstorming a list of verbs that pumpkins do, or that we do to pumpkins.

I got the idea for the poster from Zig's Class.

Then we made pumpkin puppets. Students loved decorating their puppet. I just used materials I found in my classroom. Some old foam pumpkin shapes, and some die cut pumpkins. Googly eyes make everything more fun!

Next we went through the list of verbs, and students acted each of them out. 

I'd point to the word "carve". We would say it together, then we would pretend to carve our puppet. Then I'd say "what kind of word is carve?" Class would say "it's a verb, it's an action". Then we would do the next one.

Then they went to their journals, and wrote 2 sentences about their puppet, using verbs from our list.

They seemed to really understand what a verb is by the time we were done. 

I then took them and displayed them in the hallway for all to see.

Engaging, interactive, repetition, makes meaning!