Noun Hunt

How do you keep a class of kindergarteners entertained the week before Thanksgiving break while still meeting some of your learning objectives? You go on a scavenger hunt of course! We read the book Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt this week and finished our unit by going on a Noun Hunt. The students have already learned that nouns can be people, places, or things (animals too) but it can be a bit confusing for a five year old to really grasp that concept so we grabbed our clipboards and our Scaredy Squirrel binoculars and went hunting for them. We found nouns everywhere! Many of the students aren’t ready to write out the sounds that they hear in order to spell but we reminded each other that it is important to try and that we can at least write the first sound we hear along with a picture. Our clipboards were full quickly but we made sure to stop by some of the classrooms so that we could write down a few proper nouns with capital letters. Mrs. Tipton was nice enough to even hold up a sign for us. The class had a lot of fun searching around our campus for nouns.