Shades of Meaning Video

We have been working on shades of meaning with verbs.  We read Goldilocks and the Three Bears and talked about Baby Bear crying.  We came up with other words that meant the same thing as cry and then acted them out to show what each word looked like.  Then we tried to put them in order from the softest to the loudest.  This is what we came up with.  We had done some additional work with the word Big when we read the book Too Many Pumpkins and with Autumn Leaves Are Falling we acted out the verbs creeping, stomping, romping, and marching.  I think they are doing a great job with this.  We talked about how knowing different words that mean the same thing will help to make their writing better and increase their understanding of texts read.