Homophones Baby!

Holly Batman... what a week! Coming back from break has been exhausting! We began learning a grade level Mexican folklorico dance for an open house performance (Go Mexican Hat Dance!), started our zoo/animal unit and .... did homophones, nothing crazy new but here's a peek at our week with with homophones.

We talked about them extensively... my EL's have a hard time with these, but they are really hanging in there this year! We used our anchor chart and I gave them several examples to start our list. Then we read a few books that helped us add to our list...

Later they got to play a homophone match up game. My kiddos love to get "scrambled" and then hunt to find their match, so we play games like this often :) After they found their match, each pair came to the front to explain why they were homophones and what each word meant.

this pair was meet and meat! Don't you love the shirt tucked into the sweats...lol... oh, first graders!

Then the kiddos took their word from the pair and put it onto a pear!

knight and night :)

Here's a look at our finished work

And how about a copy of the workshop sheet my kiddos did? Click the pic to download :)