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We just had our second annual Vocabulary Costume Parade! It was so much fun and a FABULOUS learning experience! All the fourth grade teachers start off start off by reading
Miss Alaineus A Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Fraiser. Then we assign the students a vocabulary word and send home a letter to the parents explaining that their child has been assigned an at home project where they need to create a costume that describes the meaning of their vocabulary word. We encourage the families to be creative and use things they already have to create their costumes. We set a due date and then have a vocabulary costume parade for the rest of the school! When the parade ends 4th grade meets together and has a word scavenger hunt. Some examples of what is on the scavenger word hunt list.... find a word that means keenly watchful to detect danger; ever awake and alert (answer: vigilant) or find to adverbs, etc. Above you can see me as "Miss Alaineous" one of the characters from the book. Our students were sooooooooo creative and really learned a lot of new vocabulary words this activity! I really recommend doing this activity whether you do it as a class, grade level or school!
Here are some some pics of some of our best costumes.
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| awkward |
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| humble |
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| zany |
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| generosity |
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| rickety useless vigilant energetic essential |
I hope this inspires you to do have your own Vocabulary Parade! For more ideas visit
Debra Fraiser's page
