Look What's "Hop"penning: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Monday, December 7, 2009

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

It's time to get in the Christmas spirit! Mrs. Johnson didn't waste a second. The first day back from Thanksgiving break, she broke out the Christmas decorations! We didn't know that WE would actually be creating them too!

We reviewed multiple meaning words last week...with a little twist. Multiple meaning words, or homographs, are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. For example, spread could be an action or something that you put on your bed. There are also several other meanings for spread. Each group of students chose a homograph. We wrote our homographs on the star of our tree. On each ornament, Mrs. Johnson had us to write a definition and come up with a sentence to match the definition. We had to be very careful to be sure to use our word correctly in the sentence.

Jendaya, Arrion, Antasia, and Nadia

Tatyanna, Charles, and Brindarius

The following day, we met as a group again to discuss WHY we chose each sentence. You see, next week during the district tests, there may be multiple meaning words in a passage. We need to be able to use our context clues in the sentence to determine the meaning being used in that particular sentence. We must look at the part of speech and other clues. After our groups discussed our reasoning, we presented our projects to the rest of the class with our explanations.

Sherrina, Kenyada, and Charles

Sharnecia, Lyric, and D'Aubriney

Everyone did a fabulous job, and Mrs. Johnson was glad to have more Christmas decorations to go out on the wall with her frog Christmas wreath. Man, those frogs are everywhere!

In case you're wondering about our cute garland, we also decorated with alliterations. Alliterations are words that begin with the same consonant sound. Mrs. Johnson began by reading Fox in Sock, a book full of tongue twisters. Many of those tongue twisters are examples of alliteration. We used alliterations to make sentences about Christmas.