Appositives with Mr. Cleaver

Our class is privileged to host a student teacher from Jackson State University. And, do you know who it is??? None other than our very own Mr. Cleaver. Mr. Cleaver is also an assistant teacher in first grade, and he chose our class to complete his student teaching! We are very excited to have him, and we cannot wait to see what all he teaches us.

This week, Mr. Cleaver taught language. Tuesday, he taught a lesson on appositives. To begin the lesson, Mr. Cleaver introduced us to his friend, Fredrick the Frog. It looks like Mrs. Johnson has influenced him with her love of frogs! As he introduced Fredrick, he also described his frog. Words that describe a noun are typically called adjectives.


We also had visitors on our tables. Each group had a different animal. Mr. Cleaver gave us a few minutes to name our animals and to write words to describe our animal.

Sherrina, Selicia, De'Eric, and Nacolby

James, Quintarrius, and Jordan

Nareuna, D'Aubriney, and Nadia

Sharnecia, Antasia, Lyric, Kristin, and Brindarius

Once we got to know our animals, Mr. Cleaver taught us about appositives. Similar to how adjectives describe a noun, appositives help to describe and explain nouns also. Mr. Cleaver modeled how to put our descriptions into sentences with appositives. This is a great way to combine ideas!

After the lesson and after Mr. Cleaver turned his description into an appositive, we turned our descriptions into an appositive and wrote a sentence about our animals.


We also had the chance to share our sentences on the board. This was a great way to check to see that we correctly used commas and words in our appositives.

Mr. Giraffe, who is yellow with black polka dots, lives in the jungle.

After this activity, Mr. Cleaver let us practice combining ideas using appositives. Once we had substantial practice using and composing sentences with appositives, we completed an independent practice where we combined two sentences using an appositive.


It looks like we understand appositives well! Thanks, Mr. Cleaver!