We’re working on antonyms this week, which I'm loving. Somewhere in my travels on Pinterest last
week, I came across a couple awesome antonym pins. I can’t seem to find the original poster, (if
anyone knows who it is, please let me know so I can give proper credit!) but it
seems to be a popular idea – maybe there isn’t an “original” poster! (Side bar: that’s one of the things
I love most about teaching – so many “original” ideas have been thought of
before!)
Anyway, I LOVE LOVE LOVE giving my students visuals and
tricks to help them remember things.
I’ve had MANY kids confusing antonyms and
synonyms this year – so this poster is SUCH a huge help! Hopefully in the future they’ll hear
“antonyms” and immediately picture ANTS… and then they’ll remember the
difference. J
This morning we started with a read aloud (as MANY of my
lessons do!). We read A Special Gift:
An Antonym Story by Christine Corona.
I actually have a class set of these books, so while I was reading it
aloud, my kids were reading it with me.
At the end of each page, we stopped and talked about the different pairs
of antonyms and made a chart on the board.
I forgot to take a picture of it, but we added our own ideas to the
chart on the board as well.
Afterwards, they each picked a pair of words and illustrated
them on their own little ant. I love how
they turned out! I tend to have
perfectionist tendencies, so I like making the poster myself and then adding in
examples from the kids… it’s a perfect combination of my Type A personality and
KidCentric – in my opinion. J
I love how this little guy has a ponytail!
We left our list of antonyms on the board. Tomorrow, as a quick review/assessment, I’m
giving them each a page to fill out with 4 ants on it. I made it a quick FREEBIE, which you can find
here!
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