We became doctors… sentence doctors!  We have been learning about how to identify and write complete sentences.  Each sentence needs four parts: A capital at the beginning, a “naming part” (also known as a subject,) a “telling part” (predicate,) and ending punctuation.  We are focusing on statements right now, so we are exclusively using periods at the ends of our sentences.

I told the students that we would be working on sentence “patients” who needed to be stitched together.  We put on imaginary gloves and real medical face masks (because everything is better with dress up!) I passed out two sentence parts to each student, along with some twine “stitches.”  Our doctors then identified which part of the sentence was the naming part and which was the telling part before stitching them together.  After sharing a few, we traded telling parts to create new silly sentences.

Once we showed we could identify the parts of a sentence, the sentence doctors then created their own patients to trade by writing silly sentences of their own on sentence strips, identifying each part, and separating the naming and telling parts.  Once separated, they traded with a friend and stitched up their new sentence.

Next week, we will learn about different types of sentences including statements, questions, and exclamatory sentences.