On the Hunt for Nouns

We’ve been busy learning about nouns! The parts of speech can be an abstract concept for young children so I like to give them fun, concrete ways to reinforce those concepts. The students have learned that nouns, or naming words, as we sometimes call them are divided into three groups: people, places, and things. Sometimes we add a separate category for animals. I do not introduce the concept of nouns also being ideas yet. Last Friday we made binoculars and went on a “hunt” for nouns around our campus. Every student had a clipboard so they could document their noun sightings. It was wonderful to see them grasp the idea that everything they could see on our walk was a noun! What a fun way to end our noun study.