Have you ever been trying to talk about something only to have your first grader scream a word that you just said back at you? Yeah....sorry about that. You most likely just used a "Million Dollar Word" in your conversation. For the past 20 weeks we have been working our way through a program called "Text Talk". It's a rich vocabulary curriculum. Each Monday we read a book and talk about some of the more advanced vocabulary in the story. After learning the words we'll add them to our Million Dollar Word Bank. I think we've learned about 60 words so far this year. Words like envy, custom, dazzling, obstacle, skyscraper and civilized are just a few examples. We play a little game in class. If they hear me use a million dollar word and they are the first to yell it out to me they win a prize. They get a million dollar bill and piece of hard candy.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Things we do in Class!
Have you ever been trying to talk about something only to have your first grader scream a word that you just said back at you? Yeah....sorry about that. You most likely just used a "Million Dollar Word" in your conversation. For the past 20 weeks we have been working our way through a program called "Text Talk". It's a rich vocabulary curriculum. Each Monday we read a book and talk about some of the more advanced vocabulary in the story. After learning the words we'll add them to our Million Dollar Word Bank. I think we've learned about 60 words so far this year. Words like envy, custom, dazzling, obstacle, skyscraper and civilized are just a few examples. We play a little game in class. If they hear me use a million dollar word and they are the first to yell it out to me they win a prize. They get a million dollar bill and piece of hard candy.
