Today's Classroom Activities :

Vocabulary Games

Brrr...I Remember
Vocabulary If you live in an area where it snows, go out after or during a light snowfall and write your vocabulary words, spelling words, math facts, etc. in the newly fallen snow. Or, place cookie trays with a light coating of water into a freezer until ice starts to freeze. Take out the trays and do the same exercise in the frosty ice.

The Dictionary Game
The Dictionary Game (also called Balderdash) is an activity that can be used to introduce new vocabulary words from content areas. In order for the game to work all students playing the game must be completely ignorant as to the definition of the word being used.

Bingo Lingo
Players match words on their bingo cards with word roots drawn at random. The winner is the first player to get three words in a row, column, or diagonal.

A Schema-Building Study With Patricia Polacco
This lesson uses Chicken Sunday and Rechenka's Eggs to teach second- through fourth-grade students new words while deepening their comprehension, encouraging text-to-self and text-to-text connections, and helping them study characters. Students use the Semantic Impressions and Possible Sentences strategies to write about the books. Then, after a read-aloud and comparison of the texts, they complete a character study using the vocabulary words and an online Character Trading Cards tool. Finally, students apply the words they have learned to write about the author as part of a WebQuest.

Baseball Vocabulary
Review of vocabulary and verb conjugations. Can be used from beginning levels through advanced.