TIP+Project

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Our project is over nouns, verbs, and adjectives for 1st grade students. We will explore the first grade Language Arts Standard 3 that addresses Grammar and Mechanics throughout this lesson using technology such as Smart Board, SMART Notebook, Kidspiration, I-movie, and the Student Response System Clickers. We hope you enjoy our lessons. If you have any questions or comments regarding anything at all, feel free to contact us at our emails found on our personal wikispaces!  -Miss Johnson, Miss Bishop, Miss Wikman, and Mr Flores

Our Overall Matrix of Lesson Plans:


Our Classroom:
Our class is a general education 1st grade Language Arts classroom with 20 students that differ from higher and lower levels of cognitive abilities. The students are grouped into tables of 4 where there are varying levels of abilities. The higher functioning students can help out the lower functioning students if they finished their assignments before the others. Sally has a learning disability where she struggles to stay focused. She is placed closer to the board in order to keep her focus longer and minimize the distractions behind her.

Lesson 1 by Dana Bishop: Teaching Nouns
In this lesson, we will first go over what categorizes something as a noun. Then, we will also go over how to sort nouns into three groups: person, place, or thing. After the students have an understanding of how to sort nouns into their correct place, they will complete an activity with their table groups where they will sort the nouns into their correct box.

Lesson plan: Teaching Nouns: Noun Activity:

Lesson 2 by Chris Flores: Teaching Verbs
In this lesson students will learn about verbs. Then, students will answer questions using a Student Response System. With the Student Response System the teacher can see what each student answered and how many students got the question correct.

Lesson plan: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Verb Activity:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lesson 3 by Annika Wikman: Teaching Adjectives
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">In this lesson students will learn about adjectives. The teacher will use the Smart Board lesson to teach what an adjective is and then continue using the Smart Board lesson for student activities.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lesson plan: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Adjective activity:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lesson 4 by Taylor Beth Johnson: Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives MadLib
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Nouns, verbs, and adjectives have been taught by Ms. Bishop, Ms. Wikman, and Mr. Flores by now so I will be putting the pieces together. The class will be told to write one noun, one verb, and one adjective on my Wikispace and then it will be used in class the next week. Once the words were collected, I typed them up, attached a picture, and then cut them up into little slips of paper. In class, I gave each group a handful of words to sort into nouns, verbs, and adjectives. I pulled up the MadLib PDF onto the SMART Board and we filled in the MadLib as a class with the nouns, adjectives, and verbs picked by the students.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lesson plan: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">MadLib for the class:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Each students' nouns, verbs, and adjectives: http://misstaylorbeth.wikispaces.com/Parents+Page+for+MadLib <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The class' words and pictures for the slips of paper:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lesson 5 by Dana Bishop, Chris Flores, Annika Wikman, and Taylor Beth Johnson
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This movie will be played in the class as a closure to learning about nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We, as teachers, will assess how well they have learned their nouns, verbs, and adjectives by seeing how interactive they are with the film. The movie asks questions identifying if something is a noun, verb, or an adjective. The movie gives time for students to respond to the prompted questions so we will encourage the students to be vocal when the film asks a question.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lesson plan:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Movie: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="youtube" key="qV-c8H2HJcU" height="315" width="560"