We've had fun this week working on shades of meaning! This can be a difficult concept for many 2nd and 3rd graders, but I've created some fun, fall-themed activities to support distinguishing shades of meaning among related verbs and adjectives. You can find my Shades of Fall packet here.
This week we started with identifying pairs of synonyms, and then decided which word was strong and which word was weak. I gave each child a pumpkin card with one word on it. Then, when I said go, they had to find their partner. My class absolutely loves these types of activities, so we played a few times. :)
Once everyone found their partner, we sorted the words into two groups - weak and strong.
Finally, students completed an independent activity page. This boy thought he was being so funny with his sentence... How could I be mad when he did such an excellent job??? HA!
On Friday, we did the candy corn activities from my packet. We started by assembling candy corn puzzles. Each candy corn was made up of three words that have similar meanings. I cut them apart ahead of time, and then the groups had to assemble each puzzle.
When they finished assembling the puzzles, they recorded their answers on the recording sheet.
Finally, they chose one of the candy corn puzzles to create their own candy corn for. They had to write a sentence for each word, showing the differences in their meanings.
On Monday, I'll hang the completed candy corn craftivities up for an educational and festive display!
You can find these activities and more in my Shades of Fall packet.
