This Week in Speech Class

I missed all of last week due to unfortunate circumstances, but my students were ready and waiting when I returned on Monday. They appeared to have missed me (probably because they were forced to attend all of their classes). I know how much you would all love to be members of my speech class and so I am now providing you with what we are doing in our Language Class.

This week our Word of the Week is:

PERSISTENT- Refusing to give up or stop.

My students and I then discussed this word and different situations where it would be applicable. They were then forced to write a grammatically appropriate and meaningful sentence using this word. (One student  persisted that she would not pick up a dog's pee or poop others were persistent that they would not attend their classes).

Next we read over a quick parts of speech review explaining adjectives, adverbs, nouns, verbs, etc. so that we could play a game of Holiday Mad Libs. This is a good activity to reteach parts of speech (which can always use a good review) and get them excited to come up with new and interesting words in a fun format. The website below has some good internet mad libs which would be a fun change from the printable version:


http://www.eduplace.com/tales/