It has been a dreamy, theme-filled January so far. Over the past two weeks our theme has been hot chocolate. An easy choice for the cold Minnesota weather! In the speech room we have continued with learning about nonfiction text structure, themes in a story, descriptive vocabulary and following directions. Here are the ideas and TPT products we used to incorporate our chocolatey theme:
This nonfiction text structure freebie by Primary Owl, was a perfect way to introduce text structures, it includes 5 posters and two worksheets for our 5th grade students. We also then used our own nonfiction text structure cards to deepen our students learning.
To keep the students enthusiastic about text structure, we also played a game called the Cocoa Cup Champ. Students were given a "cocoa cup" and when they could name the text structure they could add a marshmallow (in our case a cotton ball) to their cup. The student who had the most correct answers and had their cup full of "marshmallows" was the Cocoa Cup Champ.
A variant for some of my students was letting them make marshmallow baskets in the cup. Anything to please right:)
For my students working on functional directions we read a hot cocoa recipe and followed the directions. Then everyone tasted their cocoa and we as a group came up with adjectives to describe the cocoa. Our group came up with: warm, light, bubbly, creamy, good, sweet, spicy, wet, sticky steamy, yummy, and scrumptious.
We used to this craftivity by Lauren Balogh write down our describers and for some additional following direction fun.
While searching for ideas we also found these great freebies for additional speech language practice, Enjoy!
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