Prepositions: dipper

3 - Whiteboard Challenges

Whiteboard Challenges

Challenge 1

In the first sentence, can you identify the preposition? Is it a time, place or direction preposition?

Challenge 2

Can you identify the preposition in the second sentence?  Can you continue and complete the sentence by explaining why the dippers built their nest behind the waterfall?

Challenge 3

Using either a time, place or direction preposition, and some of the descriptive words from the Word Wall, write your own scintillating sentence that describes something that a dipper might do.

Whiteboard Challenges

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1) She’s about to spend just over two weeks sitting on her eggs.

2) The dippers built their nest behind the waterfall because…

Word Wall

(place) below, above, among, beside, beneath (time) before, after, during, at (direction) towards, through, between dipper bobbing chirping darted preening nest dived raging river