Pumpkin Guessing Game

     The "Budding" class got to design jack-o-lanterns, and then learn how to use descriptive words (adjectives!) to describe size, shape, color, and number.  All art work was hung on the board, and after reading descriptions, the students got to guess which pumpkin was which.  If their pumpkin was guessed first, it meant that they were an excellent writer and describer!  Enjoy this one by Isabella (2nd grade):

Monster Draw Game!

Adjectives, Adjectives, Adjectives!!  They are very important when an author is attempting to paint the perfect picture in the reader's mind.  Adjectives can tell size, shape, color, and number.  And this is the theme of the Monster Draw Game!  We enjoyed this assignment at Halloween time.

Step 1: Draw a monster.  (Having a background will give you more difficulty points during judging.)

Step 2: Describe your monster in vivid and complete detail.

Step 3: Exchange descriptions with a partner.  Attempt to draw each other's monster.  Monsters who are practically twins will win the contest!

It is always fun to see the improvement in kids as they take repeated workshops with me.  These first two girls started off in my program as wee 1st graders.  Their first Monster Draw game in 2nd grade was a flop; they both remember!  Now look at them in 3rd grade!  Voted class winners!  Congratulations Anjalia (writer) and Sammie (reader)!

     My paper is vertical.

     My monster is a medium green square with fat blue stripes.   It has no fur or skin.  It has two big black vertical oval eyes with a black circle pupil at the bottom of it.  It has no nose.  Its mouth is red and smiling.  Its mouth is closed.  It is medium.  It is shaped like a U.  Its two arms are pink small rectangles with no fingers.  Its legs are small purple rectangles that have no feet.  It has no clothing.  Its standing on a fat green floor with one purple circle at the bottom, one on the right, and one on the left. Oh!  I forgot all about the antennae and the lollipop.  The two antennae have a black vertical line with a yellow circle on top.  In my monster's left hand (my monster's left NOT YOUR left), there is a lollipop.  The stem is purple and the part that you eat is pink.  Okay.  Back to the background.  There are three gray tall triangle mountains in the background that are overlapping each other.  There is a dark yellow medium ball with the same color spikes coming out of the ball for the sun.

     Can you see my monster in your head???

     Next we have two returning students who have been with me for a few sessions as well.  Mathis (5th grade) is just a wee bit interested in Greek mythology and attempts to bring mythical creatures into every assignment I give!  Here he drew a Poseidon monster, and described it so vividly that Morgan (4th grade) could practically draw his twin!  Congratulations you two!

     My monster is a cyclops with one large, round, and brown eye in the middle of his head.  His skin is peach.  He is smiling and holding two big, round black boulders in each of his hands.  He is in the middle of the page.  He has no nose.  Above his head there is a blue trident.  He has shaggy brown hair.  He has a long sleeve shirt with a blue trident and underneath the word "Poseidon" is written.  The shirt is green around the trident.  He has brown pants and blue shoes.  In the background, he is floating on a small brown circle just big enough for him to stand on.  Last but not least, there is a sun on your right with rays of orange and yellow.  He is floating away in the sea.

     This last group is an exciting combination of a 3rd and 5th grader!  This was Nicole's (3rd grade) first time playing the game.  Francesca (5th grade) wrote very carefully and clearly to help her partner achieve this match!

     Notice: The whole thing is slanted from the bottom right corner to the middle left.  There is a line that she is standing on (the ground.)

     My monster has two arms, both bright orange, and he is flexing, so they get wider when they attach to his body.  His hands are circular, with no fingers.  He has four legs, also bright orange, with circular feet and no nose.  The hands and feet are orange, with the hands being small.

     Her head is also a body, and she is very round.  She has a medium size pink bow sitting on her head/body.  She has a light blue mustache, medium sized, with a dark pink tongue, pretty big, sticking out from under it.  Her eyes, which are large, are ovals, with a half circle on the bottom half.  That circle is cut in half with a vertical line.  The right half (your right) is colored with pencil.  The other side is with dark blue.  The eyes are above the mustache horizontally.

     There is a tree to your left that has gone behind her arm.  The trunk is brown and the top green. It is medium size.  There is a medium size gray rock to your right.  Below the ground there are three patched of grass in each corner below the ground.  The rest below the ground is white.  The sky is scribbled blue with spaces.

     Try to draw my monster.

Congratulations to our winners!!

Having Fun with Adjectives with Name Poems

My younger students are still learning the value of adjectives.  So, our next assignment was to describe ourselves using the letters in our names.  Enjoy these fabulous Name Poems!

S is for sweet, stupendous, and spectacular
A is for awesome and A-OK
V is for very cute and crazy
I is for impressive and intelligent
A is for amazing
N is for nice, noisy, and nifty
A is for absolutely fabulous

~Saviana, 1st grade
(Notice how well Saviana dealt with tricky V, plus having three A's in her name!)

N is for nice
A is for awesome
T is for terrific
H is for handsome
A is for amazing
N is for neat

~Nathan, 2nd grade
(Great job with two N's and two A's!)


S is for a super soccer player who has silky hair
A is for an awesome animal lover
M is for having a marvelous mommy
A is for being an amazing friend
N is for nice and neat writing, and eating nectarines
T is for being on the terrific Tigers soccer team
H is for having a happy heart
A is for drawing wonderful art

~Samantha, 3rd grade
(I love the rhyme at the end, and the compliment to her Mommy!!)

Happy Halloween! Monster Draw Game

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!

That was the theme of the "Halloween Monster Draw Game."  The game went as follows:

Step 1: Draw an imaginative monster.
Step 2: Describe your creature in clear detail.  Each sentence should describe a feature with size, shape, color, and number adjectives.
Step 3: Trade descriptions with a partner.
Step 4: Draw a picture of that creature based on the description.  If the description is extremely vivid, clear, thorough, and complete, the monsters will end up to be twins!
Winners got some Trick-or-Treat candy as well as a spot on the blog.  Congratulations to our winners!

Kendal's Creature (3rd grade):

     This strange animal has no fur.  It is just pink skin.  He has four heads and three eyes, and on each head is an angry, scary face with teeth.  The last to the right head has a happy face and sunglasses on.  He usually has green overalls and a peach colored undershirt and a pair of orange yellow polka-dotted shoes and a candy cane cane.  He hunts for bunnies at  midnight when the stars come out.  He has no fingers, just oval shaped palms.

 Kendal ended up having a teacher as a partner!  The students voted this one as an easy top-pick winner.  Way to go, Kendal and Mrs. Aronen!  http://seabearskindergarten.blogspot.com/

Adeline's Monster (3rd grade):

     My monster is a small, pink circle with lots of small light and dark pink fur.  She has two big green eyes withs mallet, but still big, pupils.  She has no nose, although she has a little red smile.  Also, she has a big red bow on the top of her head and tilting to her left.  The bow is outlined with a light blue.

     Her arms are purple with three fingers: one on each side, and they're horizontal.  The legs are purple too, but have five toes and are in a flower form.  She only has two legs.

     

     You know how I said she had a pink body?  That was the OUTLINE.  The inside is purple.

     And that is my monster.

Wow!  Charlotte (3rd grade) read Adeline's vivid description perfectly, because look what she drew!

Ritik's Monster (5th grade)

     Put the paper vertically.  The body is ten mid-sized circles that stack on top of each other vertically. Start the first circle at the bottom of the paper.  the feet are penguin feet, and there are two of them.  The arms are VERY long.  They start from the top circle.  They curve down and they end at the bottom of the paper.  The bottom three circles are green.  The three on top of that are red.  The three on top of that are orange.  The very top circle has two black eyes and one red mouth, like a human's.  The top circle is colorless.  There is a mid-sized triangle on top of the top circle.  The feet are pink and arms are blue.  

     The background is pink and purple.  There is a black fence that goes up to the circle on the very bottom.  On the top right, there is a yellow sun.  There is one arrow on the left of the monster that is pointing to the left.  There is another arrow to the right of the monster, pointing to the right.

What a thorough description!  It was so great, that Catie (5th grade) was able to produce this:

Mira's Monster (4th grade)

     My monster is very short and plump.  He has two green eyes, that are medium-sized.  His face is arranged like a human's.  He has a little, round, gray nose.  He also has a huge smiling pink mouth.  He has no teeth.

     My monster wears a bow tie.  It is purple and red.  There are seventeen purple polka-dots on his bow tie.  His head also has two neon orange ears on each side of his head.  He has one blue diamond in each ear.  He is called the KING OF DIAMONDS.

     The King of Diamonds has a big circle for his head.  He has a medium-sized body, which is also round.  His head and body are neon orange.  He has five magenta wiggly arms like noodles on each side of his body.  He has ten stick legs.  His legs are brown and he has ten black shoes.

     The King of Diamonds sits on a huge yellow throne.  "King of Diamonds" is written on top of the throne.  A blue diamond is on top of the throne.  Ten blue diamonds are on the throne.  He has a purple crown with blue diamonds on top of the crown.  

 Wow!  Mira's description was so thorough that Samantha (2nd grade) could practically draw her twin monster!

Abby's Monster (3rd grade)

     My monster's body is a spiky circle with a big spike at the top.  She has no fur.  My monster is orange.  Her eyes are large with blue middles.  She has glasses that are circular and they are much bigger than her eyes.  She has two eyes.  The nose is triangular and it is yellow.  The mouth is smiling and it is dark red.  She has a medium sized bow that is pink at the top of the big spike.  Her two arms are blue and my monster is throwing them up above her head.  The hands are like human hands, but there are only three fingers.  The legs are shaped like stairs, and they are purple.  She has two legs.  My monster has medium brown freckles.  

     The background is a school to the right of the monster.  The school is square, and it has doors that are square with a line through the middle, and four windows, two on the bottom, two on the top.  There are two circular doorknobs in the middle.  There are words above the doors that say in capital letters, "Welcome to Monster Elementary."  Above the words, there are two circular windows with pink on the bottom and red on the top, with yellow and orange next to pink.  The roof is triangular with a red cross on the top and a bunch of v's all over the brown roof.

For the 2nd and 3rd graders, this was their first time playing this descriptive game.  I was so impressed with how Abby wrote clearly enough to have Kristina (3rd grade) draw this!

GREAT WORK, and congratulations to our winners!

The Snowman Draw Game!

     Monsters in October, Snowmen in February!  If you missed the Monster Draw Game in Session I, then allow me to explain the process for this game that emphasizes creativity and a thorough use of adjectives.

Step1: Draw a snowman.
Step 2: Write a detailed description about your snowman.  Use adjectives for every feature, including size, shape, color, and number.
Step 3: Exchange descriptions with a partner.
Step 4: Attempt to draw each other's snowman.  If the writing is really good, and the reading comprehension is there, the snowmen will look practically like twins!

The classes judged the winners, and winners got a trip to my treat box as well as Blog honors.  Enjoy!

Josh, 3rd grade:

     My snowman has a big snowball at the bottom, a medium in the middle, and a small one at the top.

     He wears a black top hat with an all-red buckle on it.  He has square glasses like a nerd.  He has two black eyes.  He has a medium sized nose that is bright orange.  

     He wears a big green scarf on his middle snowball.  He has six black buttons too.

     He has two roller skates with small rocket boosters on the bottom snowball.  The roller slates are orange with five wheels on each skate with little water drops dripping because of his rocket roller skates.

     There is a tall tree on your left and a small brown dog looking at the snowman on your right.  There are three clouds and 17 round snowflakes.

Lucy (2nd grade) did a great job reading Josh's excellent writing!

Eugene (5th grade) wrote so clearly that his partner Luka (4th grade) could easily draw his snowman's twin!

     My snowman is made out of three snowballs.  The bottom one is big, the middle one is medium, and the top is small.  He stands on a floor.

     He has a blue top hat with the words "I'M THE SNOWMAN."  His eyes are small, vertical, red rectangles.  He has a horizontal rectangle for his mouth.  There are three teeth, on on the top and two on the bottom.  They are red.  The snowball is orange.

     The body is split into four areas.  Each one has a symbol.  The black Z, the brown backwards C, the purple circle, and the green area.  The C and the Z are on the bottom two.  The Z is on your right and the green area is above it.  Two red arms come out of each side.  The one on your right has two fingers and the other arm has three.  On the one with three fingers, he is holding two bags with dollar signs on them.  

     His bottom is a yellow circle.

     To his right there is an open safe with two money bags in it.  Above him there are two green clouds and two alarms that are flashing red lights.  To his left there are two $100 bills falling from the bags. 

Wow!!!

This last one impresses me the most because 1/2 of the winning team was 1. new to the class and 2. one of the youngest students ever to win.  What can I possibly teach Anja (3rd grade) if she did this well at this game on her first try?!

     My snowman has three snowballs for its body.  A big snowball is on the bottom, a medium-sized snowball comes next, and a small snowball makes up its head.

     She has a top hat with a brown strap around the hat.  She has two coal eyes with three eyelashes facing her right.  She has a long orange nose with vertical lines on it.  She has seven circles for her smile.  She has a brown pipe with smoke coming out.  She has long wavy brown hair that goes to her shoulders.

     She has an orange scarf around her neck with polka dots.  She has a vest that is outlined in red and in the middle there is magenta.  There is a red pocket on her left side.  She has two brown arms.  Her left arm is waving "hi."  She has three stick fingers on each arm.

     She doesn't have anything on the bottom, but a brown and pink monkey is on her left.  He is about an inch and a half tall. 

     In the background there are hills, and on the left side there is a cabin.  There is also a mountain on the left behind the hills with a girl in all blue sliding down the mountain on her knees.  There is a green bush on the right.  There are five snowflakes on the right and seven snowflakes on the left.  There is one big half cloud at the top.

  Annika (5th grade) did a beautiful job with Anja's description!

ADJECTIVES, ADJECTIVES, ADJECTIVES!  They are so important!

Halloween Monster Draw Game!

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!

That was the theme of the "Halloween Monster Draw Game."  The game went as follows:

Step 1: Draw an imaginative monster.
Step 2: Describe your monster in clear detail.  Each sentence should describe a feature with size, shape, color, and number adjectives.
Step 3: Trade descriptions with a partner.
Step 4: Draw a picture of that monster based on the description.  If the description is extremely vivid, clear, thorough, and complete, the monsters will end up to be twins!
Winners got some Trick-or-Treat candy as well as a spot on the blog.  Congratulations to our winners!

Ben's Monster (6th grade)

     My monster has an oval body, the long way horizontal.  It has six skinny legs with three toes on each foot.  The legs are gray.  It has blue stripes in a turquoise shade.  It also has yellow stripes double the size of the blue ones.  There are four yellow stripes and three blue ones.  It has an orange small crest on top of it.  Its eye is orange and has a red pupil like a snake's.  The eye is a half circle evil eye.  Since it is facing sideways, only one eye is visible.  The mouth is like a sideways "v" with four yellow teeth on the top and bottom.  It the background there are two snow-capped mountains that are brown at the bottom.

This description was so vivid, that Riley (5th grade) was able to use his excellent reading comprehension skills to draw this:

 

Portia's Monster (5th grade)

     My monster has a big round head attached to a wobbly skinny body.  My monster has one big eye with a spectacle.  It has two arms, one skinny and one fat, and two legs that are both skinny.  The body has many colorful skins.  The head is aqua, and the eye is yellow with a red pupil.  The neck is orangish yellow.  The arms and chest are pink with purple polka dots.  The stomach is blueish green, the hip is blue and the bottom is pink.  The legs are neon green.  The background has colorful waves and the water is pink.  On the top of my monster's head, there is a red mohawk.

I love all those size, shape, color, and number adjectives!  Sulwen (5th grade) did a great job with reading and drawing:

Kevin's Monster (4th grade)

     My monster is a big, long, horizontal oval that is blue.  He has two medium-sized green antenna with green small balls on top.  He has two big eyes which are write and a small triangular brown nose.  His facial features are arranged as a human's.  He has a horizontal red mouth which is like a long red line.  He also has two medium sized white buck teeth.  He has two feet dressed in green shoes and centimeter-long legs covered in red socks.  He has two short white arms with hands, and the hands have four fingers.  His hands are like Mickey Mouse's, except they are a bit smaller.  His hands and legs are like a human's.

     He is standing on a yellowish beach and in the background there is the blue sea.  The turquoise sea is bigger than the beach.  In the top left corner there is a small green sailboat with a red sail.  The boat is very simple. 

 

Kevin did such an outstanding job with his description that Emily (4th grade) practically drew the twin!

Ellery's Monster (5th grade)

     My monster has a big circular body outlined in yellow.  It has five oval eyes connecting, alternating the pupil, down-up.  The pupil is teal.  It has two periwinkle small round noses.  It has a small smiling red mouth with a tongue.  The outline of it is red, and it has a red vertical line on it.  It has a teal trianglular mohawk centered on top of its head.  It has a medium purple polka-dotted bow tie right below the mouth.  My monster has two inch purple boots with circles at the end.  My monster has NO arms!

     My monster is walking on a two inch thick green lawn that dips on the right side.  There is a medium pink car on the right side below the monster.  The background has a horizontal one inch thick periwinkle sky, and in the right corner there is a yellow sun halfway showing.  The rays are yellow, alternating small and big.

     My monster's milkshake is a one inch tall periwinkle milkshake with a brown upside down L straw.

 

Great details!  And Annika has outstanding reading comprehension skills to produce this monster's twin!  (How does this monster hold the milkshake without any arms??!) 

Andrew's Monster (3rd grade)

     My monster has a big circle body with orange curly skin.  It has four purple small eyes and a green huge nose on every arrm.  It has a huge purple mouth with sharp white teeth.  He has huge spikes.  He has long hairy arms and no hands.  He has long vertical legs.  He lives in a huge black house with lightning everywhere.  Zombies are rising from the dead with mauled skin.  There is a gray full round moon.

 

These were my youngest participants in this game, and look how well Emaan (2nd grade) followed Andrew's directions!

 Congratulations to all of our winners!

The Monster Draw Game

Adjectives, adjectives, adjectives!! They paint such important pictures in our minds. Colors, numbers, shapes, and sizes.... we can't clearly envision an object without adjectives.


My Writers' Workshop students celebrated Halloween last week with the Monster Draw Game.  Here is how you play:

1. Draw a monster and have fun with the art work.

2. Write a description that is incredibly detailed. Describe every aspect of your picture with size, shape, color, and number adjectives.

3. Exchange your descriptions with a partner.

4. Attempt to draw their monster, while they draw yours.

5. The winners' pictures will look almost identical, because the description will be so vivid and easy to follow.

When the game was over, the classes (and a few parents, too!) voted on the best matches.   I promised the winners they would be published on the blog, so here they are!

I am proud of my 3rd graders, Kelsey and Serena!  Kelsey wrote the following description and was so careful with her colors and sizes that it is no wonder these monsters are so similar!

My monster is an "OK" size and is pine green.  It is oval shaped.  It has one medium bright yellow nose.  It has one blue eye, a big red mouth, and a green tongue.  It has three blue hairs on each side, and green curvy arms and three curvy legs.

Here is how Serena drew it!

4th grader Sulwen wrote in beautiful detail.  Everything from head to toe is vividly described.  4th grader Vionna used her excellent reading skills to create the twin monster!

The monster has a triangle shaped body.  The body is green, but remember to leave a medium sized circle in the center.  The circle is the face, and is sky blue.  On the face are three eyes.  The eyes are arranged one on the top and two on the bottom, triangle shaped.  They are at the top of the circle.  There is also a round orange circle in the middle of the circle as a nose.  The nose is about the size of the eraser on your mechanical pencil.  The mouth is a half circle shape that is just a red line.  On the right side of the mouth, there is a little red tongue with a black vertical line going through it.  On the bottom of the trianglular body, there are four legs.  They are skinny and have little round balls on the bottom as feet.  The legs and feet are also sky blue.  On the top of the head are antenna.  They are right on the point of the top of the triangle.  There are two antennae; they are also skinny and have little balls at the top of the skinny lined part.  The antennae are also sky blue.  The monster is now done.  Good luck on drawing it!

And here is Vionna's!

Abby (4th grade) is appearing on the blog with this game for the third time!  She is an amazingly thorough and descriptive writer.  She also does a great job organizing her work into paragraphs, even under the time pressure in our game.  Her super reader 5th grade partner, Savannah, had no trouble making her adorable monster's twin!

My monster is shaped like a starfish.  His body is dark purple.  His bright orange mouth has a little orange tongue sticking out on your right.  Directly above his mouth he has two big eyes, outlined with black.  The monster's left pupil is small and black.  It is close to the bottom of his left eye.  His right pupil is small and black, and is close to the top of his right eye.


My monster has a big teal bow tie right below his mouth.  On your right he has a light green surfboard with the words "SURFER" on it.  "SURFER" is outlined in black pen, with peach on the inside.


Behind my monster, there are five little blue waves, then a big blue wave, then four little ones, and then a medium-sized blue wave all near the top of the paper.  Right on top of the water, on your left, is a yellow sun on the corner.  The sun has wavy sun rays in yellow.  The water behind him is bright blue.  I hope you think my monster is very adorable!

Here is Savannah's:

Adjectives, Adjectives, Adjectives!

Session II of Writers' Workshop has started off beautifully, and I've had a wonderful time getting to know my students.  There are some enthusiastic returners, and excited new faces too!  They are super authors and artists, as this post will prove.

We started off our first meeting focusing on writing fabulous sentences loaded with detail.  We talked about how adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases describing where and when can turn a boring sentence into an exciting one.  The following week, the students worked on putting many detailed sentences into paragraphs to describe in the greatest detail a snowman they had drawn.  The Snowman Draw Game works like this:

1. Draw a snowman complete with background and clothing.
2. Write a description of your picture so thorough and vivid, that when someone else reads it, they can picture your snowman perfectly.  Every sentence should mention size, shape, color, and number!
3. Trade descriptions with a partner.
4. Attempt to draw your partner's snowman.  If they are twins, you did a great job!

Winners of the game would win jelly beans and blog honors, so here they are!

Riya's Snowman (3rd grade)

     There are three balls.  The first is sky blue that is shaded lightly.  The middle is sky blue that is shaded darkly.  The last is the same color that is shaded lightly.


     The first one has two black eyes and one long, orange nose.  There are seven raisins for his mouth.  He has a black top hat that is small.


     The middle has four small round red buttons.  He has two brown sticks which have three fingers.


     The last ball is very fat and has one big yellow snowflake in the middle of it.


     The background has seventeen snowflakes.  There is no snow on the ground yet.

Riya divided her writing into such easy to understand paragraphs that Elliott (3rd grade) came up with this:

Emma's Snowgirl (4th grade)

Sianna: Read the whole thing before you do it.


     My snowgirl is quite an athlete.  She is made of three snowballs: the top one is small, the second one is medium, and the third one is big.  She is small on the page.


     She has brown hair to her shoulders.  She has two black eyes and one orange carrot nose.  She has five black circular buttons for a mouth.  She is on your right of the page, and above the middle line.  


     She has a soccer jersey that is purple with the number 12 on it.  She has two arms and three fingers.


     On the last snowball she has two soccer cleats and a soccer ball that is right next to her on your left.


     The whole field is slightly colored green, with two goals with squares around them.  On your far left, she has a score board that says "Home" and "Visitor."  The "home" score is 4, and the "visitor" is 2.  They are in yellow.  In the middle is a line with a circle.  The goals are black.


Emma had such a detailed background that I was afraid her partner wouldn't be able to match it, but she described it so well that here is how Sianna (4th grade) did:



Roya's Snowman (3rd grade)

     My snowman has three balls.  The head has a green and magenta hat that says 49ers.  There are two eyes that are pencil colored.  He has an orange carrot nose that has four columns.  The mouth is seven dots.


     He is wearing a yellow 49ers jersey.  The numbers on the jersey are pink.  He has twig arms.  Each has three sticks, and one is holding a brown football.


     The bottom is just plain white.


     There is an orange sun with red tips.


Katy (3rd grade) and Roya made great partners!  Look how close these are:



Will's Snowman (3rd grade)

     My snowman has three balls.  The bottom is huge, the middle is smaller, and the top is the smallest.


     My snowman's head has one blue eye and a solid red smiling mouth.  


     The body has a horizontal string going through the middle with a green dot in the middle.  The body also has six yellow dots with circles around them: three on the top, and three on the bottom.


     The bottom is gray, not anything else, and there is a black full moon to my snowman's left.  The last thing about my snowman is a light black sky at the top of the page.


     P.S. For the light black sky, just use a black crayon or anything black and color lightly.


The class loved Will's "Alien" snowman, and how his partner Jade (5th grade) drew it!:

Arushi's Snowman (4th grade)

     My snowgirl is quite pretty.  She has a black top hat with a brown strap with a small purple bow.  She has two coal black eyes and a tiny carrot nose.  For a mouth, she has four small coal pieces.


     She wears a pink pearl necklace and a pink vest with green buttons.  She has two skinny stick arms with three fingers.  In her right hand, she has a miniscule snowball.  In her left hand, she has a purple leash with a dog attached to it.  But we'll get to the dog later.


     My snowgirl has medium sized green boots, but she isn't wearing any pants.


     She is standing on a snowy hill with her tiny dog, who has a snowball at her paws.  the dog is white with brown ears, a brown tail, one brown front leg, one brown back leg, and the other two legs are white.  She has brown patches.  On her tail, she has a purple bow.  In the corner, there is a sun that is not completely showing.


Arushi is so thorough and her description is so easy to follow with her paragraph breakdowns, that a super reader like Reilly (4th grade) could draw this:



Abby's Strange Snowgirl (3rd grade)

     My snowgirl is very large and funny.  She is made of three snowballs: the bottom one is large, the middle one is medium, and the top one is small.  She sits on a peach, sandy beach.


     She wears small black sunglasses and has light brown hair down to her shoulders.  She also has a small, light brown coconut nose and a medium, red, smiling mouth.  She wears a purple tank top, teal shorts, and she has thin, light brown arms with circular hands.  She also has orange flip flops with navy blue straps.


     She is on a peach, sandy beach with little black dots in the sand.  There are two, blue, big waves behind her.  The sweating sun with green eyes and pink pupils, a dark green nose, a pink mouth, and orange and yellow rays is behind her on her right.

Abby's use of size, shape, color and number adjectives was outstanding!  Her partner Melissa (5th grade) then drew this:

Congratulations to our Snowman Draw Game winners!