Grammar games!

In Form 1 West today, students learned about possessive and reflexive pronouns! Students took notes on possessive pronouns being pronouns that show ownership of something to someone. Then we talked about reflexive pronouns being pronouns that refer back to the pronoun in the sentence. Students looked at a variety of sentences where they identified the possessive and reflexive pronouns, students selected the correct possessive and reflexive pronoun to complete the sentences, and students created sentences of their own. After all that practice, it was time to put their skills to the test with a game...

I wish that I could say that this lesson was my own idea, but I have to admit that I was inspired from a lesson online. I enjoy coming up with all my own lessons. Although this lesson was inspired from a lesson online, it was partially my own, because I was so excited about finding this idea online that I forgot to write the directions to the game down. When I was planning my lesson last night, I realized that I had no idea how to play the game, I only had a game board with a bunch of pictures of various items on it...

So, I invented my own game based on the game board I had sketched out. I divided the class in half and had each side select a student who would be the team speaker. The team would think of a sentence that included the item on the board and the pronoun that I gave to them to use. I would alternate between having students create a sentence using a possessive pronoun and a reflexive pronoun. The team speaker would get the sentence from the team and the first speaker to come up to the board and tell me their correct sentence would get a check mark on the square in their team color. At the end of the game we would add up the number of check marks per team.

The game board has e squares on it have that have the names of various things including hat, cat, dog, etc. 

I tell students to create a sentence using the object and a reflexive or possessive pronoun.  For example, create a sentence with a reflexive pronoun and dog. Students could respond, "He walked the dog all by himself". The first team speaker to tell me their sentence gets to check off the square with their team color's piece of chalk. Then we move on to the next square.

  

Although we didn't finish our game before the end of class, the green team was ahead by two points. I think both teams had fun learning about reflexive and progressive pronouns today!