Come in and get your orange vocab sheet. Begin practicing your stanza with a partner.

You should have titled pg. 7 in your interactive notebook “Prepositions” and glued down the song lyrics. You also took a few notes. Next, title pg. 8 “Prepositions” as well, and you should write

these three sentences.Then, highlight the prepositions you find in these sentences.

The pizza in the oven is mine.

The girl by the door is my sister.

The runners raced around the track.

Is this what you wrote down?

The pizza in the oven is mine.

The girl by the door is my sister.

The runners raced around the track.

Prepositions

A preposition is a part of speech that shows a relationship between two things. •Location (on, under, in)•Timing (before, after, during)•Direction (from, toward, to)

Prepositions

Prepositions

The mouse is on the table.

Two things: mouse + tableRelationship: one is on the other

On is a preposition!

Prepositions

The mouse is under the table.

Two things: mouse + tableRelationship: one is under the other

Under is a preposition!

Prepositional Phrasesin the oven

by the door

around the track

These are prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases start with a

preposition and end with the object of a preposition.

Object of a PrepositionThe object of a preposition•must be a noun or a pronoun•always comes at the end of a

prepositional phrase

Example: The cookies are in the oven.

Oven is a noun that ends the prepositional phrase. Oven is the object of the preposition.

Now, time to play “Simon Says”…

• Follow the

instructions as

given. For

example, “around

your desk”.

• You would move

around your desk.

• When you say the object of the preposition, you are to slap the object with the palm of your hand.

Preposition Song(To the tune of Yankee Doodle

Dandy)aboutaboveacrossafteralongamongaroundat

beforebesidebetween againstwithinwithoutbeneaththrough

duringunderinintooverofofftotoward

uponnearforfromexcept

bywithbehindbelowdown.

Put it all together…Indicate the prepositional phrases in these sentences. 1. After school, the boys played a game of baseball at the park.2. We hid our canoe in the bushes and set up camp by the river.3. Candy signed her name on the line and passed the paper across the table.4. Without any warning, the dog dashed to the door and barked loudly.5. The storm caused the tree in our front yard to fall against the house.

Now, time to play “Hide and Seek”…

• Find a partner.

• Pick an object

that is about the

size of your hand.

• Decide who will

go in the hallway

first.

• Partner will hide object in the classroom.• You can only use prepositions to give clues as to how close they are.