Just this past week, second graders were learning a new
concept through our Reading Street curriculum: compound words. Throughout the
week, students were spelling, reading, and forming compound words in multiple
activities in the classroom. One of these last activities was by far the most
fun for the students. We liked to call it Compound
Word Concoctions.
In this activity, each student in the classroom was given a
different compound word, such as “butterfly” or “pancake”. Their job was to
show these compound words as two separate words and one whole word through
pictures. For example, given the compound word “ladybug”, the student would
separate the word into two words, “lady” and “bug”, and draw a picture to go
along with these words. After breaking the word apart, they would put it back
together to make “ladybug” again and draw the picture for this compound word. Students
truly let their artistic talents shine through in this activity and they
enjoyed putting creative touches to their pictures.
These Compound Word
Concoction pictures are now decorating our hallway window. Feel free to
come and check out the creative compound word talents of our second graders!
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