1. Which one of this is NOT a
sentence?
A tiny seed is planted in the forest.
A seed grows into a tree.
The tree
Trees give us food, clothing and shelter.

2. What is a sentence?

3. A sentence is a group of words that
tells a complete idea.
The
forest
needs
your
help
so
plant
tree.
a
Can you make a sentence out of these words?
(find the complete sentence on the next slide)

4. The forest needs your help
so plant a tree.

5. In PO16, we did three rotation activities to
practice building sentences. In this activity, we
put three related pictures together and we wrote
a sentence about one picture.

6. A boy likes
to play on
the snow.
The girl is making a
sandcastle and she
put some shell and
the wind blew it.

7. In the second rotation, we played a puzzle game.
This skill building puzzle provides students with
building sentence practice. Each colored puzzle with
a word represents a part of a sentence.

8. In the third rotation, the challenge was to create funny
sentences. Each piece had a beginning sentence, but
the fun starts when the sentences are mixed up!
This little
bug sings
in the bath!

9. How else did we build sentences?
We read a number story about Moby.

10. Then we cut up the words to make a
a sentence that make sense.

11. Moby has six planes
and five cars. How
many toys in all?
5+6=11 toys