Word of the Day

Presented by Leah Doryoseph

WOD: excitement

• The students were full of excitement waiting for the bus to take them on the trip.

• The trip was so exciting!• Grandma was so excited when she saw us!• I don’t know what excitement means.• Excitement filled the air as students learned

new words.

Prediction

• Basket• Danger• Grandmother• Responsibility• Temptation• Wolf

Write your own poem

• Subside• Stay• Nature• Leaf• Hue• Hard /harder/ hardest• Gold (noun & adjective)• Flower (as a verb)• Dawn

Nothing Gold Can Stay  

by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

Prefixes and Suffixes

• pre = before • re = do again• bi = two • bio = life • inter = between, among• micro = small• macro = big• oct = eight

• -age = noun: activity or result• -an = noun: person• -en = verb: to cause to become• -ic = adjective: quality, relation

• -ize = verb: cause• -ly = adverb: in the manner of • -ship = noun: status, condition

Circle Time: 1. Put kids in groups of 4-5 2. Give each group a word3. The first kid writes a

sentence in the given form.4. The next one writes the

same word in a new sentence using a different form.

5. They go around trying to use as many forms as they can.

TeacherConnectionPlayReactionMoverElectricitySexQuestion Friend

Photo Montage

• First show a picture• Then add the word• Repeat for a small set of related words• Cycle through the pictures, adding the words• Cycle through again with just the words

• You can use this to build compound words

Fork

Broccoli

Carrot

Peppers

Vegetables

Broccoli

Carrot

Peppers

Vegetables

Broccoli

Carrot

Peppers

Vegetables

• Broccolicarrots and peppersare all different kinds of vegetables.

Bibliography• Danger warning symbols | Stock Vector © sahuad #depositphotos.com• Grandmotherwww.marionchonorscsj.com• The Difference Between a Job and Responsibility | Journey of a ...www.us

mansheikh.com• Temptation | Threw My Eyeswww.peteklimek.com • Crying Wolf: A Misguided Canine Extermination Campaign or Sheep ...ww

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