Get your students excited about grammar skills by creating a few gnome-themed grammar stations in your classroom. These activities are easy to create and fun to complete, and they offer a fun skills review or an easy way to introduce new grammar skills in the classroom. Students can work in pairs or independently to practice their grammar skills. In third grade we decided to practice our verbs, nouns and adjectives along with quotation skills. So get your grammar garden ready with these fun and easy grammar games!
Assemble the gnomes and use a Sharpie to write out examples of nouns, verbs and adjectives. You can have each student create two or three, then write a noun, adjective or noun on the back. These are fun and easy to create and can be a quick way to review skills. Simply hold a gnome up and read the word, have students identify it as a noun, verb or adjective. This is a fun little craft project that makes a quick whole-class grammar review.
Use the mushroom house craft kits to create 3 houses, but leave the roof open. Label them: verbs, adjectives, nouns. Have students use the gnomes they created and sort them into the proper houses. For an extension to the activity, students can create sentences using 1 verb, 1 adjective and one noun from each of the 3 mushroom houses.
In pairs, give students a red, blue, green and yellow mushroom top. Have them take turns spinning each top. Red for nouns, blue for verbs, yellow for pronouns, green for adjectives. As the top spins they have to say as many examples of the part of speech that they can recall. The person who is able to name the most parts of speech while the top spins wins the game.
Use colorful mushrooms to write down examples of each part of speech. In pairs, create sentences using 1 word from each color of mushroom. Red for nouns, blue for verbs, yellow for pronouns, green for adjectives. Use colored pencils to underline each word with the correct color.
Have students write their own examples of dialogue onto a sentence strip using a Sharpie marker. I asked my students to think of something a garden gnome might say if they could talk. A few of my favorites, "Get off my green grass!" "Please don't pick the beautiful wildflowers". Encourage your students to use some of the other parts of speech in their examples. If they place the quotations in the right spot, have them use the self adhesive mushrooms to mark the quotations. These quick grammar games will be a big hit with your students.
