The Value of a good Sentence

I am sure you have heard of a fifty cent word but have you ever heard of a five dollar sentence?  I saw a suggestion for a fun activity using both math and grammar in one of my Mailbox magazines and I just knew I had to whip something up for Tyler's workboxes.  After all can you beat doing two subjects at once especially when it is fun!

I started by making up a sheet with a special code on it that gives a monetary  value for each word in a sentence.

My hubby typed up a worksheet with a bunch of sentences to go with the code.  The first thing that he does is to use play coins and place the value for the word above it in the sentence.

Then when you are done you add up all the coins and find out the "value" of the sentence.

Our coins were a little bunched together so I think next time we will use a larger font for our sentences.  I am also going to use the coins and code when we do sentences for spelling and see if I can get some more "valuable" sentences in the future.  If you want to try this and would like the code sheet you can download it below.



 

Valuable Sentences

Grammar Poster Center

I bought some posters the other day hoping to make some centers with them.  I have only been able to do one so far but I thought I would share.  I took this poster that I bought from Amazon for $1.99 and glued it to a larger poster board. Here is the link for the poster. http://www.amazon.com/Parts-Speech-Cheap-Chart-Charts/dp/0768233879/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243013179&sr=8-4 I then took some cardstock and made pockets for each part of speech and made some labels for each pocket on the computer.  I glued the pockets down the sides of the original poster close to their definitions.  I am going to have my sone write out sentences for his spelling and vocabulary words on index cards and have him underline the word in the sentence.  He can then sort what part of speech the word used was into the pockets.  Here is a picture.

It only took about a half hour to make and I know we can use it a bunch.