Vocabulary Parade Information

October Vocabulary Costume Parade!

Ezell-Harding will be staging our first ever Vocabulary Parade on October 26, 2012! The idea for the Vocabulary Parade stems from the children’s book Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster.

For costume ideas you can check out the author’s website: http://debrafrasier.com

Costumes: 

Costumes can be made from hats, poster board with straps, sandwich boards (front and back poster board) recycled Halloween costumes, T-shirts, or other props. Just remember that all items should be “safe” items! Also, practice putting on and taking off your costume so you can do it all be yourself (or with a tiny bit of help from your teacher).

Your costume may be any creative interpretation of the word (literal or silly).

Include your vocabulary word and definition on the costume somewhere. Also, Remember to make a large card with your word on it, so we know which vocabulary word you represent. You can carry it, make it into a headband, or have it as a part of your costume. Be CREATIVE!

Choosing Your Word:

You may choose your own vocabulary word. Choose words that are age-appropriate, but also expand the students’ vocabulary. For example, a kindergartener would be impressed to learn that “pachyderm” is a synonym for “elephant.”

Compound words lend themselves to creativity: catfish, rainbow, butterfly, mailbox, houseplant…

“Sound alike” words are another great source of fun, creative ideas! (Especially for younger children):

Homonyms – Spelled the Same Example: bed – to sleep in; flower bed

pen, checks, glasses, wave, bark, box, ear, watch, ring, bill, scale, bowl, bank, fork, file, palm, bow, stamp, bat, row, nails, note, bulb, trunk, pitcher

Homophones – Spelled Differently Example: bare/bear – The bear with no fur is bare!

beet/beat, pair/pear, tow/toe, mail/male, rein/reign, waste/waist, tail/tale, son/sun, tea/golf tee, flower/flour, fur/fir tree, road/rode, sew/sow seed, steak/stake, cent/scent, knight/night, hare/hair, rows/rose, see/sea, meat/meet, ring/wring *Nouns (person, place or thing) would be great starting places for kindergarteners! *Adjectives – dress in clothing that illustrates your word (shimmery, glistening, …)

100+ Words to Spark Costumes Ideas:

	earth	obstacle
abundance	eclectic	orbit
accelerate	effervescent	parallel
accomplice	egghead	perpendicular
adrift	elasticity	pigment
agitation	electric	ponderous
agony	error	precipitation
air	eruption	proboscis
aircraft	extravagant	protuberance
annihilate	façade	puzzle
appendage	fanatic	queen bee
arrow	feast	quiver
assemblage	ferocious	range
bamboozle	flexible	radiant
banish	fortification	regal
bedrock	fruitless	rejoin
blizzard	ghastly	rescue
blockhead	gigantic	retract
bookworm	glisten	rickety
border	gyrate	ricochet
breakfast	headstrong	satellite
brilliant	headstrong	scale
brute	heirloom	separate
bubble bath	heroic	shimmer
busybody	hibernate	shortsighted
camouflage	horizontal	snarl
canine	hypochondriac	solar system
cascade	identical	somnambulism
cavity	illuminate	static
celestial	illuminate	tendril
ceremonial	incognito	thicket
cheerful	inflame	thunderstorm
closefisted	inflame	tidy
collage	join	transparent
collision	journal composer	tremendous
condensation	knothole	triumph
congruent	lackadaisical	useless
congruent	leisure	vacant
cook	lightning	vanish
cupcake	litter	vigilant
dangle	luminous	web
decoy	midnight	windshield
disguise	monarch	workload
disheveled	monochromatic	yoke
divergent	noteworthy	zany
drive	nourishment	zigzag

**Remember to bring your costume and all of its parts to school on October 26.