Grade 2 • Tuesday, May 12 • Language Arts

Overview

Today, you are going to review verbs and adjectives. You will work on visualizing a poem. You will generate words about summer and then writing a poem about summer.

STEP 1. Review Adjectives and Verbs

Last week, you watched some videos about verbs and adjectives (the videos are below if you missed them). We also shared some activities you could complete at home to review what verbs and adjectives are. Below, we have some videos demonstrating these activities you can try at home.

Verb charades

Silently act out an action (like running) and have your family guess what you're doing! Whoever guesses correctly gets to act out the next action word.

Adjective bags

Put something in a bag (like a toy car). Have one person put their hand in the bag and say one word to describe what they feel (hard). Then let them peak in the bag and use one word to describe what they see (shiny). Finally, have them use one other word to describe it (fast). Now the rest of the family tries to guess what is in the bag. Whoever guesses correctly gets to choose a new object to go in the bag.

Videos from Last Week:

Verbs

Verbs are action words. Verbs often describe what something is doing or how it is moving.

Examples: run, jump, swim, eat, laugh, scream, chase.

** With permission from an adult, watch this short video on YouTube to for more examples of verbs (one will probably make you laugh!).

** You can also log into MacinVIA and go to BrainPop Jr. to learn more about verbs.

Adjectives

Adjectives are describing words. We can use our 5 senses to help us think of adjectives (describing how something looks, feels, sounds, tastes or sound).

Examples: hard, purple, fuzzy, pretty, sweet, large, stinky, funny, loud.

** With permission from an adult, watch this short YouTube video to learn more about adjectives:

(Links to an external site.)

** You can also log into MacinVIA and go to BrainPop Jr. to learn more about adjectives.

STEP 2. Watch Video

Today, you are going to work on visualizing a poem, generating words about summer, and then writing a poem about summer.

Direct Link to Video (Links to an external site.)

(Links to an external site.)**Note: Closed Captioning may not display when using the Firefox browser

Knoxville Poem Vocab Pictures.png

If you want to write about this poem on paper, click the link below.

Knoxville, Tennessee poem

Writing Time

STEP 3. Write

Write a poem about what you like about summer. You can use ideas from the Summer Words charts below, as well as any other interesting words you think of in your poems.

Summer Words Chart.png

Click here (Links to an external site.) for some more summer words!

Watch this video of Ms. Abelman and Miss Jenner to help with writing your own poem.

Resources

STEP 4. Look at Resources

Steps for Accessing Wixie Projects

steps for accessing Wixie projects

Poem

"Knoxville, Tennessee", by Nikki Giovanni (Links to an external site.)

The poem is also available for download, if needed.

"Knoxville, Tennessee", by Nikki Giovanni

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