Cures for a Boring Day
Poetry
The students in Mrs. Hoyme's homeroom study action verbs. They are able to use and identify them by learning three ways to define action verbs: Question, Definition, Function. An action verb answers the question What is the thing that happened? It can also be identified by definition as a word that expresses action. Finally, the function of a verb in a sentence describes what the subject does in a sentence.
The students practice writing and recognizing action verbs in the past tense, the present tense, and the future tense. Mrs. Johnson, the student teacher, read the poem "Cures for a Boring School Day" by Kalli Dakos. To practice using present-tense action verbs, each student used the pattern in Ms. Dakos' poem to write "Cures for a Boring Day" poems. Each poem contained seven lines, each line beginning with a present tense action verb.
We word-processed our poetry put them together to make a class book. Copies of our poetry are on our website for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
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Cures
for
a
Boring
School
Day Sleep all day. Use the scooters. Play in recess all day. Have gym all day long. Write on the smart board. Conduct a domino train down the hall. Run around the school with slippers on.
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Cures
For
a
Boring
School Day Teach art all day. Talk to your neighbors. Do whatever you want. Play in the gym all day long. Paint the school rainbow colors. Go on the computers all day long. Waste tape and hang it all over the school!
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Cures for a
Boring School Day Make as ball fort. Jump around the school. Go to the cook’s room and cook. Play fun games on the computer. Read all the books in the library. Use markers to draw on the walls. Teach the principal how to play the piano.
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Cures for a Make a desk fort. Play bowling in the gym. Party in the gym all day. Be the principle for a day. Get lots of AR points by cheating. Have a foam rocket fight in the gym. Make a fort of mats, books, and papers in the gym.
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Cures for a Watch TV. Rip up work. Kick down all doors. Get pencils stuck in ceiling. Throw stuff out the windows. Etch go away on the windows. Play paint ball gun fight in the gym.
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Cures For A Boring School Day
Take a very long nap. Run all over the gym. Take everything apart. Draw on the smart board. Tape crayons all over the walls. Throw paper all over the school. Put paint on all the walls and windows.
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Cures for a Boring School Day Flood the school. Start a food fight. Play runescape all day. Tape people to the wall. Make a fort out of desks. Draw on people with markers. Throw toilet paper around our room.
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Cures for a
Boring School Day Have a toy day. Draw on the walls. Play any game all day. Play outside in the spring. Create a big party with friends. Make sculptures of Natalie, Rachel, and Ashley. Watch movies (kids choose) with pop and popcorn.
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Cures For a Boring Day
Eat candy all day. Mess with the intercom. Draw on every inch of the school. Call people on the school telephones. Make weird faces on the windows. Tear out and say no more homework. Make an ice cream cannon made out of ice cream.
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Cures for a Boring School Day Rip up books. Draw on the desks. Color on the floors. Sculpt a fake teacher. Paint on the smart boards. Spit gumballs at the teachers. Tape and tie up the teachers.
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Cures For a School Boring Day Do Art. Spit spitballs. Break my desk. Paint all the girls. Make a fort out of desks. Throw books at each other. Tape the teachers upside down on the ceiling.
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Cures For a Boring Day Paint the floors. Carve into the desks. Teach teachers math. Write spelling words 0 times. Draw enormous pictures on the floors. Tape everyone to the walls upside-down. Throw papers from the fat folders out the window.
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Cures For A Boring Day Matthew Si Have a war with rulers. Run and flood the school. Have a game show in gym. Play hide and seek in the dark. Have a swimming pool so we can go swimming. Have a snow ball fight in the dark.
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Cures for a Boring Cut all the spelling words. Cut all the desks in half. Play dodgeball all day long. Blow the world’s biggest bubble. Sculpt a dragon out of the desks. Bowl in the gym and use all the pins. Make the world’s hugest snow fort ever. |
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Cures For a Boring School Day By Scott Draw on the walls and paint the lockers. Rip books apart and tape them to the smart bard. Ride my bike through the halls and jump it off the desk. Make a wall out of tape so the teachers can't teach us anything. Jump on the desk and throw the chairs across the hall really hard. Tape the T.V. to the ceiling right above the doorway so when someone goes there the door it drops. |
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