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When to Use -ES

Suffixes: -S and -ES

Day 102of 180
Week 21of 36
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand when to add -es to make words plural

2

Identify words that require -es suffix

3

Practice reading words with -es suffix

📖 Scripture Connection

Genesis 1:21

“God created the great sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.”

— Genesis 1:21 (WEB)

Demonstrates how God created many different creatures, using plural words

📦 Materials Needed

  • Suffix cards
  • Word building tiles
  • White board
  • Marker
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (5 min)

Gather students and review previous day's lesson about adding -s to make words plural. Show excitement about learning a special rule for some words.

💭 Review Question: What do we do to make one thing into many things?
2Teaching (8 min)

Today we'll learn when words need -es instead of just -s. Some words need -es when they end in s, x, z, ch, or sh.

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Some words need a special ending to become plural
  • Words like 'box' become 'boxes'
  • Words like 'brush' become 'brushes'
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • Can you think of a word that ends in 's'?
  • What happens when we want more than one of that word?
3Activity: -ES Word Building (5 min)
hands-on

Students build plural words using word tiles, focusing on words that need -es

📝 Instructions:
  1. Take a word ending in s, x, z, ch, or sh
  2. Add -es to make it plural
  3. Read the new word out loud
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Teacher helps student build words

Challenge: Students create their own -es words

4Closing (2 min)

Review what we learned about -es suffix

📝 Review Questions:
  • When do we use -es?
  • Can you give me an example of a word that needs -es?
🙏 Prayer:

Dear God, thank you for creating so many wonderful things in our world. Help us learn and understand your beautiful language.

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll practice sorting words that need -s or -es

💎 Memory Verse

Psalm 104:24

“How many are your works, Yahweh! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your creatures.”

— Psalm 104:24 (WEB)

🎯 Activity: Count creatures while saying verse

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Children are learning rules about making words plural

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Practice orally before writing
  • Use visual examples
  • Make it fun and playful
🤔 Common Struggles:

Remembering which words need -es vs -s

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child correctly adding -es to appropriate words

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Create a picture book of -es words
  • Hunt for -es words in storybooks
  • Play a matching game with singular and plural words

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