ADJECTIVES, ADJECTIVES, ADJECTIVES!! Without them, our readers are left with an incomplete picture in their minds. With that theme, the 3rd-5th graders participated in the Snowman Draw Game. Here is how it is played:
Step 1: Draw a snowman with a background.
Step 2: Describe your snowman in paragraph form, from head to bottom, with adjectives that tell SIZE, SHAPE, COLOR, and NUMBER.
Step 3: Trade descriptions with a partner, and try and draw theirs while your partner draws yours!
The winners were judged by the class, and the contests were close. Congratulations to our winners!
My paper is vertical. My snowman sits on a low, snowy, white hill. Everything is outlined in black.
My snowman's body is large, its middle is a little bit smaller than the bottom, and the head is the smallest.
My snowman wears a black, short top hate that has a brown strap with a buckle in the middle. He has two big black coal eyes. He has NO nose! He has a smile made of five small, round, black pieces of coal.
He has three big yellow buttons on his body. He also wears a red vest. It has two brown stick horizontal arms with three twigs for fingers.
He doesn't have anything on his bottom.
On the hill on YOUR left there is a big green bush. On the side of each arm, there is a small white round snowball. On YOUR left in the corner of the paper, there is a part of the yellow sun emerging out of the corner. There is a white cloud right next to the sun. On the left side of the cloud, there is another white, round, small snowball. On top of the snowman there is a snowball, and in the right corner there is an M shaped black bird.
~Anjalia, 3rd grade
My snowman has a medium head, big middle, and big bottom.
His head has a black top hat with a green 12 in the middle. He has two gray eyes and a black spectacle on the left one. The nose is slanted to the right of the page and it is orange. The mouth is a smiley face with a red tongue on the left.
His middle has a black bow tie and a black vest. The vest has no design. The arms are wide V's and have small lines on the elbow. He has three fingers and the arm and fingers are all black.
His bottom is all orange with two small green shoes. The body is outlined in black.
He is standing on a white hill that has another hill to the side. On the side hill stands three snowmen with top hats and nothing else. It is all outlined in black. There are also six snowflakes in a triangle above him.
- Tyler, 4th grade
Tyler described his scene so well that Lucy (4th grade) was able to draw this!
My snowman is large and cute. He has three colorful balls: the top one is pink, the middle ball is orange, and the bottom ball is yellow. He sits on a hill.
He wears a pair of earmuffs with white puff balls and a black connecting line. He has two small black dot eyes and an orange pointy noise with three dark orange lines, and a small smile.
He has two brown twig arms with three fingers. His left arm is holding a striped pink and green medium-sized balloon on a black string. In the middle of this ball, are four small vertical black buttons.
His bottom ball is just a big yellow circle.
As I said earlier, he is standing on a white hill. On either side of him is a green sprout with three leaves: one on top, one to the left, and one to the right. There are fourteen small round circular snowflakes, seven on each side. On the same side of the balloon, there is a crescent moon that is dark blue. The sky is hazy silver-blue.
~ Julia, 5th grade
This exercise in art, descriptive writing, and thinking and writing quickly and neatly is always a favorite with my students. Look for "Monster Draw" around Halloween time next fall!
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