The "Awesome" class had a slightly more challenging task for Descriptive Writing. This writing game is a favorite of my students! It's a fantastic lesson in on-demand and descriptive writing. I teach my students that their job is to create the perfect picture in their readers' minds of exactly what they want them to see. If a writer misses ONE adjective, the picture is altered!
Here is how this game is played:
Step #1: Draw a monster.
Step #2: Write about your monster with vivid and descriptive language. Size, shape, color, number! These types of adjectives were our theme of the day.
Step #3: Trade papers with a partner, and try to draw each other's monster with zero talking! The only assistance I offered was if someone's handwriting was a little challenging to read. Othewrise, the students were on their own with reading and drawing their partner's twin monster!
These usually have a few that turn out hilariously different, but of course, the closest ones (voted on by the class) make the blog. Check these out!
Dana's Monster (4th grade)
My monster is an upside-down tear drop shape. He has two red horns on either side of the top of his head. They are not very big. He has two small brown arms on either sie of his body (the upside-down tear drop shape). They are both cone-shaped. He has two big gray eyes, with one eyebrow above each one. Then, at the bottom of his body, there are two small, cone-shaped brown legs.
His body is separated by three wavy diagnonal lines, all going fro right to left. The first line is a little above half of his body. It is all blue. Below that is a line just above the bottom of my monster. This section is green. The rest is black.
For his face, there are two small gray dots for nostrils just below his eyes. And below that, he has a U-shaped mouth that is gray.
Dana wrote so clearly that her partner Cho (5th grade) drew this!:
Armin's Monster (5th grade)
My monster is a big triangle cut into three portions, just like a candy corn. The top section is all blue. The middle section has two giant oval red eyes in it. The rest of the middle section is green. The bottom section has a very tiny circle for a mouth. That tiny circle is red. The rest of the bottom section is purple. The background is all yellow. The triangle, or monster, is as big as you can draw it on the paper.
Armin and his partner Irene (5th grade) debated on the effectiveness of the "candy corn" part of Armin's writing, and were pretty entertaining to listen to on the day we judged the winners! However, the class voted these as practical twins!
Connor's Monster (4th grade)
My monster has one big brown head with two big light green horns. Also it has five gray eyes and eight yellow teeth. It has red inside of the mouth.
My monster's torso is blood red. There are four long arms. On the left side they are orange, and on the right side, they are blue. The small hands are the same color as the arms, with sharp claws
The monster has four small legs that are gray blue.
Connor's partner Liam (4th grade) was able to draw this close match!
Arielle's Monster (6th grade)
My monster is called a Trog, and he looks like a tree. He is a long, medium sized tree, colored brown.
He is a bare tree, so the top of the tree ends in three different sized spikes. Think of how tree braches look like at the top of the tree, and draw three of them. Other than the top of the tree, he is completely branchless.
My trog, also known as a tree dog, is pretty cute. His eyes are half circles pointing down-ish. Just think of the normal scary ghost eyes. My trog eyes are completely colored black. My trog has a regular smile, but it's a smile with two white fangs.
My trog has two sets of paws. Think of two u's and another two u's below. My trog has a tail. It kind of curves up, then has little lines (representing the fur) down. His tail is a little bit below the second pair of paws, but not at the very bottom. The tail is on YOUR right.
In the first pair of paws on YOUR RIGHT, he's holding an ice cream. He has a brown cone, a pretty longish triangle with left diagonal lines. Then there is a red scoop of ice cream, then a blue scoop of ice cream, then a purple ice cream scoop. Then a cherry. And then there are two ghosts. One next to the purple scoop, and one on the left side.
Arielle got Mika (6th grade) to draw this tree twin!
Max's Monster (5th grade)
First, draw a large circle in the middle. Then draw twenty black stubby lines on the top of the circle. Now draw a cookie-sized circle in the top middle of the other circle. Under the cookie sized circle, draw an orange triangle the size of a penny. Under the triangle, draw a horizontal red banana. Now draw two blue vertical half bananas under the red banana. Under the large circle, draw two light blue skinny legs. Under the legs, put 3-toed feet that are red. In the two corners, put two medium size orange pumpkins, with a green stem on the top of them. On each side of the big circle, put two red spikes. In the cookie sized circle, put two oval yellow eyes. Color the rest of the cookie sized circle black. Color the rest of the big circle light blue.
Now to the background. On the top two corners, draw simple black bats. Now color the rest of the background dark purple.
With such an explicit "how to" essay, Max got Justin (5th grade) to draw this twin!
Congratulations to our winners!
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