Firehouse Nouns Take Five - Freebie!

Add a timer to an activity and it's magic! Kids love to be able to set the timer and race against that clock to complete a task. Print off these cards, add a timer, put in a literacy station and you've got a fun game the kiddos will love.

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This week is Schoolapalooza at A Class*y Collaboration. This is a great group of bloggers who have teamed up to give you freebies EVERY night this week beginning on Monday from 8:00 - 9:00 Eastern. Check the blog tomorrow night for some great ideas and freebies! Click on the button below to visit.

It's a Noun Hunt! -- Freebie

Need a "filler" that meets a CC Standard to keep your kiddos occupied while you try to finish up a report?

Try this Noun Scavenger Hunt. Put out a stack of Christmas books, library books, or even textbooks.  Students search through the books to find proper, common, singular, plural, abstract, singular possessive, plural possessive, and collective nouns.

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Turkey's Possessives -- Freebie

Today, I am thankful that I teach in a school system that tries to make decisions that put the best interests of the students first. That's not always the case in some places.

Your freebie for today is a quick, fun activity to review possessive nouns. Students draw a card, determine if the noun is a plural possessive or singular possessive noun, and record it on a graphic organizer. You can have them make the graphic organizer or use the one I included. 

After writing the nouns, they highlight the apostrophe with a marker. Everything to the left of the apostrophe is highlighted in a different color. This helps them actually see the noun before the apostrophe is added.

After sorting the possessive nouns, students choose four nouns and use them in sentences.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Possessive Nouns Scoot!

We are working hard to master using apostrophes to make possessives. I think we will be working for quite awhile!

Today, I put a picture of each kiddo on their desk with some tablet paper. We took turns moving around the desks and writing a sentence with a possessive noun about the person in the picture.

Their last stop was a picture of me. I tried to hold as much as my arms could carry so that they would all have something funny to write about (including a cactus), but most of them wrote about my boots. Go figure.

(It's hard to see the little fellow because of the glare, but he's holding the chair up over his head!)

Thanks to all of you who entered my big giveaway. I'll be posting the winners tomorrow morning, so stay tuned.

Hoot Owl Possessives - Freebie

One of the easiest ways I've learned to get students to distinguish between singular and plural possessive nouns is to have them highlight the apostrophe in the word. Next, use a different color highlighter to highlight everything to the left of the apostrophe. That helps them see the base word before the apostrophe is added.

Here is a quick activity to use with the highlighters.

Just click on the link above to get the file.

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Possessive Nouns - Freebie -- AND HearALL Winner!

Both second and third grade Common Core standards require students to use possessive nouns correctly. This is an introductory activity on just making the possessive nouns.

Click on the pic above to download the doc.

PLUS....it's time to announce the winner of the cool HearAll recorder from Learning Resources!

...and the winner is....

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Whoooo Knows Possessive Nouns?

Here's a freebie to use in a learning station for extra practice. Students sort possessive nouns, then write sentences with them.

Whoooo will leave a comment? :)

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Graphic from ScrappinDoodles.com