Animals and Verbs

I’m a big fan of the 4Blocks model.  I use it with the Montessori language.  I think it’s a lovely addition & I’m finding more & more ways to mesh the two.  Now, many Montessorians say, ‘Nothing but art on the walls.’  I agree…except for the word wall.  I firmly believe that it simply adds an osmosis element to the kids learning.  But, if you’re not into a word wall then you can simply take these & change the font size.  They’re a simple word document so everyone can mess around & have fun.  The font I used for them looks a lot like the font used on the sandpaper letters so…I like it. 

I used these on the wall but they’ve been packed away in preparation of the move.  I also printed them out smaller & we did an activity where the kids picked out a few nouns & verbs & we created stories about them.  I’m hoping to make up a list of adverbs, adjectives, etc.  We create our stories, write about them, chart them out (whole web thing/graphic organizer thing) occassionally and I’m wanting to come up with a new idea to do with them.  Oh, we also use them with the actual 4 blocks system but those were already prepared in a big ol’ box & right now I’m just not going to retype all of them.  I have thought about coloring them or outlining the words in their particular color (nouns black, verbs red…) 

Hope you enjoy them & let me know how you found a use for them.  Oh, we also used them for labeling our animals.  Course most of ours are pictures but someday…

Honey

Animals                                                          Verbs