Fun with Words

My grade 2 and 3 reading group has been working on increasing our vocabularies, by having fun with our favourite words and by learning some new ones.

We started by creating a giant list of our favourite words.  Some were cool to say, some had interesting meanings and some just made us laugh.  here are some of our favourites:

• PyeongChang - the host city for the 2018 Winter Olympics
• aglet - those plastic covers on the ends of our shoelaces
• biffy - an outhouse
• hornswaggle, bamboozle and befuddle - which all confuse us (get it?)
• walla walla - when everyone talks and you can't make anything out (also, my favourite onion)

We then took a few topics and tried our best to describe them with the most descriptive language that we could think of.  For example, we created the following table for apples:

Sounds	Smells	Looks	Feels	Taste
juicy	fragrant	spherical	smooth	sweet
crunchy	fresh	shiny	hard	sugary
drippy	aromatic		bumpy	crisp
				delicious

After we compared notes and added more words to our lists, we each created three sentences using two words from our word list to describe apples. We also decided that apples were, scrumptious, exquisite and delicious.

The kids had a blast!