Double the Fun

Double the Fun was designed as a learning center to give students practice with compound words. Obtain a file folder. Write the title of the center on the front. On the inside front cover, write the following list of compound words. Feel free to add more or change any. Write the acticities on separate index cards. On the inside back cover, make a pocket from an index card or piece of oaktag. On the pocket, write these directions:

You will be working with compound words at this center. There are six activities for you to complete. Select an activity card from this pocket and using the words on the opposite page, complete the activity. Follow the directions carefully and do your best work. Turn in your paper when you have finished.

The Compound Word List:

afternoon, airmail, airplane, another, anything, baseball, bedspread, birthday, blackboard, breakfast, busboy, campfire, catfish, chalkboard, classroom, countdown, daytime, dollhouse, doorbell, doorway, downstairs, downtown, driveway, earthquake, everyone, everywhere, faraway, fireman, fireplace, fisherman, football, footstepts, getaway, goldfish, grasshopper, greenhouse, headlight, homework, houseboat, housework, icebox, inside, into, jetlag, keyboard, keyhole, lanslide, lifeguard, lighthouse, mailbag, mailbox, mailman, maybe, meatballs, moonlight, mushroom, newspaper, nighttime, nobody, oatmeal, outside, pancake, pineapple, playground, popcorn, railroad, rainbow, roommate, sandbox, sandpaper, schoolhouse, snowball, snowflake, snowman, somebody, someday, someone, something, sometimes, somewhere, spacesuit, starfish, sunflower, sunlight, textbook, thunderstorm, treehouse, undertaker, upstairs, uptown, wallpaper, wheelchair, workman, woodpecker, yourself

The Activities:

1. Classify the words into categories, such as PEOPLE, SPORTS, OBJECTS, FOODS, and ANIMALS.
2. Illustrate five of the words.
3. Invent definitons based on the words that make up the compound.
   e.g., BRIDESMAID= a woman who washes, cooks, and cleans for a bride.
4. Make new compounds by dividing and recombining parts to form new words.
   e.g., BUSBOY + DOORBELL= DOORBOY, BUSBELL
5. Write word equations for the compounds.
   GREENHOUSE= GREEN + HOUSE
6. Invent some meaningful three part compound words and use them in sentences.
   e.g., BREAKFASTTIME