ADJECTIVES, ADJECTIVES, ADJECTIVES! They have been a big theme for my classes this year. Without adjectives, the reader is left with an incomplete picture. With adjectives, we see exactly what the author wants us to see and comprehend! Size, shape, color, and number adjectives tell it all!
This Halloween-time game is always a favorite of my returning students! Here's how you play:
Step 1:Each student draws a monster. (My younger students draw pumpkins, with or without a face). They should include a background and many different colors to practice using adjectives in their writing.
Step 2: The students write a detailed description on their monster/pumpkin. Adjectives are crucial, for every single noun! Size, shape, color, number must be included.
Step 3: Students exchange written work and attempt to draw each other's monster/pumpkin with no talking or asking for clarification!
Winners are voted on by the class. Most impressively to me, authors and artists with * by their names are new students to my program, so they have never tried doing this challenging activity before! That is quite awesome and amazing!
My pumpkin is medium and a rounded square. It is orange. It has a swirly vine and dark orange creases. It has round big eyes that are looking up. They are oval with black pupils and white around it. It has no nose. It has one mouth that is closed. It is long with a smirk. It is also black and thin. It has one stem that is medium sized, and it's curved to the right. It's dark brown with dark brown vertical stripes.
* Anja (4th grade) wrote so carefully that her partner * Judy (4th grade) drew this twin. (Just missing the tendrils!)
My pumpkin is large, round, and orange. It has two medium, triangle, black eyes. Its nose is small, round, and red. It has one medium, half circle down, yellow mouth with two small, rectangular teeth. The left one is green, and the right one is purple. On the top of its head, it has one little small, vertical, rectangular brown stem. It has two small, L-shaped mauve colored legs.
Wow! Eleanor (3rd grade) got her partner Emma (3rd grade) to practically draw a twin jack-o-lantern!
Body: Draw a medium-sized circle in the middle of the page, with enough space on the sides for the wings. The body is a pumpkin with a pink, yellow, green gradient (left to right), with a blue belly the shape of a gum drop on the bottom of the pumpkin. The pumpkin has a brown stem.
Eyes: Draw two eyes, the shape of small circles. The eyes are located in the center of the pumpkin body. They have a white dot. The rest is filled in with black.
Mouth: Draw a cheezy looking smile that sits between the two eyes. It sits where the bottom of the eyes are with its mouth closed, but two teeth are sticking out. One is pointing down on the left, and one is facing up on the right.
Horns: Draw two unicorn-looking horns on the left and right of the brown stem, each with three curve smiley lines for texture and colored pink.
Feet: Draw two feet with legs as thick as your thumb, one on the left and one on the right, each with three pointy toes. The feet are brown and point outward.
Tail: The tail is located on the right of the monster and starts from where the top of the leg ends. It is light blue with tan polka dots and five pink gum drop shaped humps all along the top of the tail. The tip of the tail is rounded.
Wings: Draw two cloud-shaped wings on either side of the body. They are grey and are positioned right above the humps, grazing them almost. The left one is horizontally parallel to the tail.
Wow! * Ashleigh's (6th grade) paragraph labels and thorough writing made her description very easy to follow. She got her partner Anya (6th grade) to draw this!
My monster is a furry purple shape located in the middle of the page. On top of her head, there is green gooey slime. The eye is in the middle of the top of the monster with a magenta circular pupil with red lines going around the pupil. The mouth is on the right of the monster's face. The monster has small legs with blue shoes and tiny arms on its sides. The monster is standing on a mud pile in the middle of the page on the concrete street with a dark blue sky and a red sun on the top right corner of the page. There are 11 birds flying next to it.
Body: My monster stands tall on the page. The head is square with two ears featured on the side. It has a long torso shaped like a refrigerator with one hugs left arm and a tiny stubby arm on the right. It has normal human shaped hands, but the left one is bigger than the right. The legs are normal human legs but are big, so they can fit the body Then at the end of the legs there are large feet pointing outward with four toes.
Clothing: It is wearing a green t-shirt, but it is a little cropped, just enough to see its belly button. It is wearing skinny jeans that are colored green blue with violet/purple pockets.
Skin/face/Other features: The monster's skin is a bright yellow color. The fact has a nose shaped like a triangle, and eyes that are black with white spots like a puppy dog. Its mouth is a smile with two vampire fangs at the corners. On the ears, it wears dangly earrings with a pink heart on them, and it has a pencil/silver clover shaped necklace.
* Magnolia (6th grade) organized her writing beautifully! She got her partner Vivian (6th grade) to draw this match!
My monster is almost a pink ghost. So try to picture that while drawing it.
First, in pencil, draw an upside-down U in the middle of the paper. The widest part of the upside-down U is about three inches apart, so medium-big. Next, make the ghost's (tail?) by curving the left side in, and connecting both sides at a point at the bottom. The total length of the ghost from head to tail is about seven inches. Add two small, round arms, like U-shapes again, on each side, pointing down. You can make the top a little longer to connect the arm to the body.
To make the face, draw one big circular eye in the middle of the ghost's head. Then, add a small pupil in the middle of the big eye, about the size of a pencil eraser. Shade the pupil in with pencil. Then, add a small U-shaped mouth under the eye the size of a U.
The add three long blob-like clouds in the sky, one on the right corner above the ghost, and one also in the right corner, but smaller and closer to the bottom, and one on the left, next to the ghost, cut off by the paper.
Color the whole ghost with the color "light medium rose" except the eye. Color all the body and the arms lightly. With the same color add much smaller ghosts in the distance with the same shape body, but no eyes or mouth. So color the whole thing in. There are two mini ones, one between the clouds on the right, and one in the bottom left corner. These mini ghosts are about one inch long.
With the color "green," add little antennae on each side, curved to the opposite directions with little balls on the end. Add these on the main ghost, and the mini ones.
Lightly shade just the bottom of the clouds with lines in the color "violet."
Add a circle in the top right corner above the cloud, the same size as the eye. Color the top half with black, and the bottom half with violet. Try to blend the colors.
Wow, Cora! (5th grade) This writing is so clear, it's no wonder a careful reader like Kylie (5th grade) could draw this practically perfect match!
Monster: My monster is a kind of cat. The head starts a little more than three pinkies up. It is the basic pink color. Its head is a circle. The body is also a circle, same color. It is directly underneath the head. The whole thing is smaller than your palm.
Arms: Popping out of the body there are two arms. The right arm is waving. The left arm is down. They are also pink.
Face: The cat has three black whiskers popping out of either side of the head. The nose is a read heart. The nose does NOT touch the whiskers. There is no mouth. It is cross eyed. The eyes are black. Each eye has its own black eyebrow pointing down. It looks angry.
Ears: The ears are black pointy triangles. They looks like cat ears. They come out of the top of the head.
Shirt: The shirt is a tank top. No sleeves! It says, "I Love NYC". The heart is red, not colored in. The shirt is white and the font is black.
Moon: The moon is really hard. The moon is a little bigger than the cat's head. Its face is simple: two tiny black colored-in circles. It has a cute closed mouth smile. It's very cute. No eyebrows or nose. The moon has five craters colored yellow, traced black. Two at the top are cut off. The whole moon is traced black and colored slightly yellow. The sky is SUPER light violet. It's mostly white space.
Grass and flowers: There is zigzagging green grass on the ground. On either side of the monster there is a flower. It's the same green as the grass. The blossom is dark pink. The flowers have five petals and NO CENTERS. Since the cat is at the middle of the page, there is a bunch of white space where the grass ends. Lightly color it the same green as the grass.
Good luck!
Jilly's (6th grade) partner Ella (6th grade) didn't need luck! Jilly gave her all the information she needed, so clearly organized!
Congratulations to our winners!
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