What You Know about Nouns

"What You Know About Nouns"
Sing to "What you Know" T.I.
Written by: Fifth Grade Teachers at Calhoun Academy
Anderson, SC

What you know about nouns!?!? What you know about nouns!?!? What you know about nouns!?!? We know all about nouns!!
A person, a place, or animal or thing. Like a boy or a school or a dog or a ring.
What you know about nouns!?!? What you know about nouns!?!? What you know about nouns!?!? We know all about nouns!!
--Repeat—
When we talkin' nouns, you know we mean the stars of sentences, so let us tell you what they are. (PEOPLE) like the students, yo. (PLACE) like the schools, yo. (ANIMAL) like the fishes, yo. (THING) like the dishes, yo.


Now if it's singular, it stands for one of ya,
And if it's plural, it stands for more than one of ya.
You change by adding s, to all those normal nouns.
For example, pencils, pens and maybe crowns.
Now if it ends in X, ch, sh, double s. You add an es to the end, nonetheless.
You carry boxes yo, and ride the buses, yo, Or wear the dresses yo, and eat the lunches, yo.
A person, a place, or animal or thing. Like a boy or a school or a dog or a ring.
What you know about nouns!?!?
What you know about nouns!?!?
What you know about nouns!?!?
We know all about nouns!!


When we talking nouns with a consonant before the “y”, come on drop the “y” and add “ies”
city with an -ies
family with an -ies
cherry with an -ies
party with an -ies
Now if the ending is f or fe change the f to v and add es
A cat with 9 lives yo, the leaves on the trees yo, the calves on the farm yo, two halves of a pizza yo,

Not every noun follows the pattern
irregular nouns-change a few letters
You walk on ya feet yo,
you feed the geese yo
You trick the mice yo,
you teach the children yo


Some don’t change, no matter how many
The word sounds the same, and the spelling doesn’t change
Fishing for 1 trout or fishing for two trout
Hunting for 1 deer or hunting for 10 deer
The two types of nouns are common and proper
Common is just plain but proper gets specific
Keep the lowercase-- on the common nouns
Proper nouns are queens so give them special crowns
Your school is Calhoun yo, Your state is S.C yo, Your country is the US yo, Your planet is the Earth yo


What you know about nouns!?!? What you know about nouns!?!? What you know about nouns!?!? We know all about nouns!!
A person, a place, or animal or thing.
Like a boy or a school or a dog or a ring.
What you know about nouns!?!? What you know about nouns!?!? What you know about nouns!?!? We know all about nouns!!