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Adjectives on Parade
Stanley School children made their Halloween parade a parts-of-speech celebration.
They were Bubbly, Proud and, above all, Clever.
second graders paraded as adjectives Friday morning.
They marched in homemade costumes from Whitman to Orchard to Nason.
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Parents clustered on corners and along sidewalks with cameras.
Parent Amy O'Connor's child Finn was Proud.
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Amy was impressed.
It was an English lesson in action, she said.
Kristine Collins' child was Clever.
Kristine was impresed, too.
Some of her favorites included Clever, Tricky and Speedy.
Second Grade Teacher Allison Norton got the parade idea from a story the children had read, Miss Alaineus: a Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Frasier.
In the story a school holds a vocabulary parade.
The Stanley parade was playful. It introduced new words to the children, brought the story they had read alive and was fun.
Allison said the parade not only enriched the children's vocabulary but improved their writing.
It also fired the kids' imaginations.
Parent Karen Roberts said her son Dylan came home and wanted her to make him into a log flume ride.
Then he asked her to make him some wooden teeth.
Finally they settled on a wooden soldier costume.
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