Today the three classes engaged in a bit of a healthy competition for who could create the most homophone pairs of words. Ula Ula came up with 44, and after much debate it was settled that Mele Mele had reached the same number, but not one more as they so had hoped to do.
One of the competition rules was that the words had to be common words and no slang could be used. Mele Mele attempted to display bought and bot (as in robot.) I of course vetoed this response so they asked Mr. Heitschmidt for help in proving me wrong and found it in the dictionary; "bot-the botfly’s larva" I explained that although creative, this would be the tiebreaker and it simply wasn’t common language but I wasn’t counting on their response that every science teacher uses it! So I said, ok if you can get 1 science teacher to say it today—without giving them any hints or saying the word in anyway—or looking it up in a dictionary I will count it. Though our dedicated scientists had many synonyms for larva, not one was able to produce the word the students desired to hear. Mrs. Flores' dictionary didn’t even have the word so Evan came to get mine to prove to her it was really even in there! It was a fun competition and a great way that we "accidentally" combined subject area knowledge and learned something new along the way!
Finally, Oma Oma, the smallest of the 3 classes, was able to create the largest list with 49 pairs of homophones. They did so with the help of one all-star named Gerry who had 3 pairs that no other child had thought of during the entire day! Way to go guys!
So tonight, be sure to ask your child to explain to you what a homophone is, and to give you some examples of common homophones in the English language!
3 comments:
Sew eye here Oma Oma found 49 homophones! WOW! Is their anything more confusing than the English language...okay maybe Calculus.
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That was rough! I often forget what a goofy language we speak and write! Thank you Mrs. Walker and class. I am supposed to be correcting tests but I am in front of the computer with a dictionary and Family Word Finder. It's nice to venture into the world of written language. Great job on the contest!
So today in 6th period I told the class that we had our 1st parent comment from Sara's mom on the blog. I put it on the document camera for students to see and told them to pay close attention as it fit into our lesson from yesterday. We got a good laugh when a student who was a little confused turned around to Sara (one of the brightest stars in our classroom sky,) and said in absolute shock, "gees Sara, your mom isn't very smart!" We get a good laugh and explained to the student the symbolism of the comment! Thanks so much for posting, it was awesome for kids to see and the other kids were very envious that Sara's family was the first to post, and we very much appreciate Mrs. Essary's post as well. We decided it could be a contest in it's itself just to count how many homophones were there!
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