White Boards
Kids also LOVE using white boards. I got these handy little hands for free using my bonus points from Scholastic. Here, you see us using our white boards to review parts of speech. This is a biggie in the new Common Core standards for third grade, so I tried to review it in as many different ways as I could. I told the students I would call out a sentence, and I wanted them to write the verb on their hands. Here, you see them holding up the word "flew." The sentence I called out was, "A huge flock of birds flew high in the sky." In each sentence, I tried to use as many parts of speech as possible to ensure exposure to them all. I also had my students tell me what a verb was, and if it was past tense, present tense, or future tense.