Descriptive Writing: Pool Toy Draw

 In the fall, we play "Monster Draw."  In the winter, "Snowman Draw."  So for summer, we play "Pool Toy Draw!"  This descriptive writing game with a partner emphasizes the use of adjectives to create the perfect picture in our readers' minds, which is really what good writing is all about.

Here's How You Play:

Step 1: Draw a very creative pool toy.  It can be something that has never been seen before!

Step 2: Write a very thorough description, broken down into paragraphs, describing your pool toy to the very last detail. Because....

Step 3: Exchange descriptions with a partner, and try to draw theirs as they draw yours with no talking or last-minute corrections!  

Winners are voted on by the class, and receive a small pool toy and blog honors.  Enjoy these entertaining pieces!

Bobby's Pool Toy (rising 6th grader)

    My pool toy is a huge canon that shoots people into the water.

    First, make an imaginary line down the middle.  Second, draw two medium circles to the right of the imaginary line on the ground.  Those are the wheels.  Third, make a smaller circle inside the two circles.  Fourth, color the space in between the two circles black, and draw a line connecting the two wheels/circles.  Fifth, go to the left side of the left wheel and start to draw a straight line to the top left corner, but stop after about two inches.  Sixth, go to the top of the right wheel and draw a one inch line upwards.  Seventh, draw a three inch line parallel to the line going to the corner.  Eight, draw a skinny oval connecting the top line to the bottom line, completing the shape/cannon body.  (This was really hard to explain!). Ninth, draw a little head with a smiley face sticking out of the cannon.  Tenth, color the cannon body brown and leave the oval white.  Finally, draw a curly line coming out the top of the cannon, so that's the fuse.  The top of the curly line has a little flame coming out.

    On the left side of the imaginary line, draw a pool for the little man to land in.  Then draw a line with chunks taken out of it directing where the person is going to be shot.

    In the top left corner, draw a yellow sun.  In the other top corner, draw a cloud.

    Now it should look like a man is being shot out of a canon.  If it doesn't.... oh well.

Bobby described this so clearly!  James (rising 6th grader) produced this match!

Dylan's Pool Toy (Rising 6th grader)

     My pool toy is unique.  First, you need to draw an original doughnut-shaped float.  It should be big, around the size of your hand, taking up a bit less than 1/3 of the page.  Color it forest green, and color the center hole with your pencil.

     Now, draw a medium-sized yellow circle at the front, or top part of the doughnut.  This is a head.  Inside of the yellow head, draw a smiley face, with black small eyes and a mouth.  Do not draw a nose.  Think of a clock.  The doughnut is the center, and the head we just drew is at the 12 o' clock.  Now, draw an identical head at the 3 o'clock spot.  The only difference is now it is gray and has a neutral, or bored face.  It should be colored gray, and its mouth should be a horizontal line.  Next, draw a blue sad face the same way at 6 o'clock.  And finally, draw a red angry face at 9 o' clock.  Its eyebrows should be a "v" shape, and its mouth a gray/black circle.

     For the final touch, add four long light green squiggly pool noodles in between the heads.  Now you are done drawing my pool toy.

Dylan wrote so carefully, especially about the colors and faces!  Tyler (rising 7th grader) was able to draw this twin toy!

AnaRose's Pool Toy (Rising 7th grader)

    My pool toy is an animal donut.  Its head is a wide oval shape.  It has two bear-like ears on the top, about an inch distance apart.  For both ears, you will draw an inner part like an upside down U.  Make sure that there is still space between the inner ear and the edge of the ear.  For the left ear, the inner section is black, and the rest is white.  For the left ear, the inner section is black, and the rest is white.  For the right, the inner is white while the rest is black.  For the face itself, you will draw two lines (making three spaces) horizontally across the face.  They should be evenly set apart.  For the top space, make it black, and leave the middle white.  For the last space, put a line in the middle and make the left black, and leave the right half white.  For the middle section, create circle glasses roughly in the center of that section.  Each ring should be about half an inch apart.  Just make a black line connecting the two rings and a line on the other side towards the end of the face slightly upward.  For the ring, create an upside-down U inside.  It's a gentle U, so don't make it a strict upside-down U.  For the left ring, shade it red and the other green.  Color over the upside-down U.  Those serve as eyes.  Now just outline everything in black.

    

    For the body, you have a short neck that curves into the belly.  Once you make the belly (not too big or two long), create the donut shape connected to the belly!  You can see the long hole of it, but you cannot see into it directly.  We are facing it sideways.  In the middle of the hole (on the edge of course), create bee-like wings, short and plump.  There are two for each set.  However, the further one on the back you can only see the left one completely.  For the right, you can only see a bit that peeks over the front left wing.  At the end of it, there is a fox/raccoon-like tail.  It's puffy and a bout an inch long; maybe a little longer.  It is going a bit downwards, but not completely vertical.

    Now, draw two horizontal lines through the tail, making three spaces.  The middle space is black and the others are white.  Back to the body: make seven lines, making either space, and try and make them evenly apart.  But the space near the end will be the smallest.  The color pattern will be white-black-white-black, and make sure that the last space (back of the body) is black.  Also, make sure that the lines don't go through the hole!  This part is before you color the body.  (I forgot to write this part beforehand!). Right underneath the chin is a red bandana.  It goes down almost to the middle, but not quite on each side (bottom of chin).  The little fabric ties are shown.  They are red.  For the bee wings, they are a plain gray.  Once you finish this, outline the whole body with black.

    Now for the background, we are in an inside pool area.  The curb of the pool is very thin, and it goes across the whole page horizontally and is about underneath the chin of the pool toy.  It's a butter yellow color.  The pool has five indigo blue small waves.  Top right, middle, top left, bottom left, and bottom right have these.  The rest of the pool is a light blue.  The wall has two windows.  The left one starts at the left ear (between the spaces of the top edge of the paper, and the ear, same as the right window, expect it's the tail) and ends right before the right ear.  It's about an inch an a half tall.  The inside has a line going horizontally and vertically; they meet in the middle of the window.  The right window starts where the tail meets the body, and ends where the tail ends.  Outline the windows in black, and leave the wall completely white.  And THAT is my pool toy!

Wow!  That is a thorough description!  The class voted that Nicolyn (rising 7th grader) and AnaRose were victorious, because the only difference they could find was the huge head.  :)

The Snowman Draw Game!

     This partner writing game is always a favorite, year to year!  Students can't wait to play it and improve and learn from their mistakes in the game they played earlier in the year, "Monster Draw."  (Scroll down to see the results of that game!)  This year, we practically had twin drawings, the writing and reading was so good!

     Here's how you play:
Step 1: Draw a snowman and a winter scene.
Step 2: Describe your snowman with.... You guessed it!  ADJECTIVES, ADJECTIVES, ADJECTIVES!  Describe size, shape, color, and number with every sentence!  Organize your writing into paragraphs, so it is easier for your partner to read and comprehend.
Step 3: If you did Step 2 well, you will be able to hand your description to a partner, and they will be able to draw your picture almost exactly!

     Winners were voted on by the classes.  It was an exciting competition.  In fact, all three of my schools had ties, so you are getting a treat seeing SIX sets of work!  Enjoy!

My Snowman, by Tyler (5th grade)

Intro/General

     My snowman is handsome.  He is made up of three snowballs.  The top one is medium sized, the middle one is big, and the bottom one is very large.  The page is vertical.

Top

     He wears a black top hat with a small orange triangle on the top of the hat.  He has two small black coal eyes.  He has a pickle nose facing towards your right.  It is medium-sized.  Finally, he has eight small coal dots for a mouth stretching across his big smiling face.

Middle

     My snowman has three black small dots for buttons in the middle ball going down vertically.  He wears a blue open vest about one inch from the buttons.  My snowman has two big stick brown arms with three twigs for fingers.  On his right arm he is holding a pure red candy cane.  On his left arm, he is holding a medium black sized box that says, "Cold Coco Mix Starbucks Special."

Bottom

     He has nothing on his bottom ball.

Background

     There is a 1 1/2 inch amount of green grass underneath him.  There are two sweat marks on each side of him, near the head.  In the sky, there are two inches of blue sky coming down.  In your right, put a medium sun in the corner.

     Can you draw my snowman?

     

Tyler and AnaRose (5th grade) are pro's at this game.  As partners, they have won before with Monster Draw!  Careful writing by Tyler and excellent reading comprehension skills from AnaRose led to this twin!

Natalie's Snowman (4th grade)

      My snowman has two balls.  The top one is a medium-size ball, and the bottom is huge.

     The head of my snowman has blue ear muffs that are really fluffy, and you can see the texture.  It also has two medium-sized coal eyeballs, and seven small coal pieces for the mouth.  It also has a medium-sized orange carrot for the nose.

     The bottom ball has a pink coat that has three buttons.  The one nearest to the first ball is small, the next one is medium size, and the last one is big.  It is holding a cold cup of cocoa ON YOUR LEFT. It has red medium boots.

     In the background, six snowflakes are in the air.  The one on YOUR LEFT is small.  The one below that is big, then below that is a medium one.  ON YOUR RIGHT it goes medium, small, big snowflakes.  My snowman is standing on the gray sidewalk, with a front yard but NO house.  Since there is snow, there are little bits of grass sticking out four on each side.  That's how you make it.

This 4th grade team got a lot of votes from the class!  Shijun (4th grade) did a great job with careful reading, and Natalie of course wrote very clearly:

Vanessa's Snowman (4th grade)

     My snowman has three circles, like an original snowman.  The first circle is small, then the middle circle is medium, and the bottom is large.

     In the small circle, there are two black eyes, an orange carrot nose where the pointy side is pointing right, and six dots for a smile.  At the top of the small circle, there is a Santa Claus hat.  The original colors, red and white.

      In the middle circle, there is a bow tie that is purple and three vertical circles that are blue.  On the outside of the middle circle, there are two sticks.  The right one is pointing at the top right corner, and the left one is pointing to the top left.  For both the sticks, draw two orange mittens at the top of the two sticks.

     In the large circle, there is nothing and it is empty.

     Outline the body of the snowman pink.

     The background has a pine tree on the right side.  The leaves are green and the trunk is brown.  On the left side, draw a cabin.  The normal square that is brown and a triangle on the top, which is red.  Then draw one door in the middle of the square, but make sure it is on the bottom.  Color the door red.  Then draw four small snowballs falling down and four on the other side.   Outline the snowballs green.

Vanessa is a very careful writer, and she gets very competitive, in a fun way, with this game!  Theo (4th grade) is very experienced with this game, and read very carefully to come up with this!

Emma's Snowman (4th grade)

     My snowcat is cute and adorable.  Her body and head are made of three snowballs: a slightly smaller one on top, a medium size one in the middle, and a large one on the bottom.  She is white.

     She wears a pink bow (like Hello Kitty) and has cat ears that are quite sharp.  She has two perfectly round coal eyes (set in the spot human eyes are).  They are black,  Twi slightly drooping, long whiskers on either side of the face (four whiskers in total!). She has a cat mouth with no nose.

     She is wearing a fat yellow scarf that is just below her head, and she has two 1-inch arms with three short fingers on each arm.  There is NO vest or buttons or mittens.

     She has no boots or anything near her feet.  (Her feet are not visible.)

     The snow cat is traced, but not colored in gold.  The outside of the ears, head, middle, and bottom are all traced with gold.

     The snow below her is white.  There is one green pine tree with brown trunks on either side (two trees in total) with a star on top of each tree.  There is a sun at the right side of the paper, and the sky is blue.

 Emma's snowcat is so cute!  Allie (4th grade) drew an adorable match!

Lia's Snowman (6th grade)

     My snowman has only two balls.  The balls, not the details, are all white.

     My snowman's body is 1/3 of the page.  It I about one inch from the bottom.  There is a line across the middle of the body.  The TOP half is two suspenders.  There are two smallish, ant-sized buttons that are circular.  The buttons are black.  The buttons are in the middle going vertically.  The suspenders are teal with a thick black line going through the middle of it.  (Not huge though.)

     The bottom half of my snowman's bottom ball has a pocket half the width of the bottom ball.  The pocket is in the middle of the bottom half.  In the pocket is a second pocket that is half the size of the first pocket.  The color of the pants (not pocket) is mauve.  On the pockets, there is a medium-sized strip on the top of the pocket (for both pockets).  The color of the first pocket is raspberry.  The strip on the top is magenta (press hard.). The second pocket is magenta, with a a navy blue strip.

     There are two arms coming from each side of the snowman, sprouting from the middle line of the bottom ball.  From each size is three fingers.  The arms are black.

     The head is half the size of the bottom ball.  In the middle, spread evenly, are two eyes.  The eye are the same shape as buttons.  There is a pig nose (with two nostrils) halfway from eyes to the bottom of the head.  There are also two pig/cat ears on its head.  These are both bubble gum pink.  The snowman has two whiskers coming from close to its nose (not touching).  The whiskers go to just out of its head ball, a tiny bit.). The whiskers are black.  From between the two ears, is a small black top hat.

     From where its neck would be is a scarf that goes around its head once.  It comes out on your right.  There are six tassels coming from the end of the scarf.  The scarf is slate colored.

     There is a sun on your left.  The sun is half the size of the head ball.  There are eight rays spread proportionally around the sun.  The sun is mango colored.

Wow!  Lia wrote so carefully, that her partner Angela (5th grade) came up with this.  (I am impressed she got that pocket right!)

Jennifer's Snowman (6th grade)

     My snowman is happy and likes summer.  His body is two snowballs in the middle of the page.  The bottom snowball is bigger.

     He is wearing a beach hat that is yellow with an orange ribbon.  There are pencil colored sunglasses on the orange ribbon.  He has two pencil colored coal eyes and four coals for the mouth.  He has an orange nose pointing to the right.

     He is wearing a scarf.  There are two stripes on each side, and the left stripes on top go up left, and the ones on the right go up right.  The outer stripe is red, and the inner stripe is purple.  The center is blue with a sun.  The middle of the sun is orange, and the rays are yellow.  His body is just white.  His arms are brown with three fingers.  The right arm is diagonally pointing up.

     His legs are two round circles that partially go into his body.  They are about one inch apart.

     The snow on the left covers half the page, and it goes higher into a hill on the right.  The sky is blue with circle snowballs falling.  There is a big umbrella to the left.  The umbrella bottom is not straight; it is curvy.  It should have six bumps, in red, yellow green, blue color order.  He is sitting on a horizontally long mat with vertical stripes that go yellow, green, yellow, green etc.  There are 14 stripes.  There is a beach ball on the bottom left side of the paper.  There are eight sections on the ball.  The color order goes red, blue, purple, blue, repeat.  On the right, there is a red beach bucket and a plastic shovel half buried in a mound of snow.

WOW!  The class and I were very impressed with the amazing detail in Jennifer's art.  She wrote very carefully, and Veronica (6th grade) read very carefully!  Look at this cute twin!

Congratulations to our winners!

     The "Budding Authors and Artists" class played the game a little differently.  Their game was a guessing game.  After drawing their snowman, they worked on a "Help Sheet" that had them fill out Size, Shape, Color, and Number Adjectives for everything in their picture.  They were then guided into forming interesting sentences for each feature.  When I read these aloud to the class, the students were to pick the picture hanging on the board that matched the description.
     This session, every single picture was guessed the first time!  That means that we had some EXCELLENT writers who were very thorough and descriptive!  Enjoy these samples.

     My snowman is made up of three big snowballs with blue shadings.  It has round, black eyes.  Its nose is yellow-orange, and cone-shaped.  It has a long, medium mouth with six dots slanting up to the right.  On the top its head, it has a half-oval green and orange hat with a purple puff.  My snowman has long, brown, skinny arms.  I love its clothing!  It is wearing five buttons made out of coal.  The background has a bright, yellow crescent moon, and an icy ground.  I think my snowman is awesome!

Candice, 3rd grade

     My snowman is made up of three round snowballs.  It has two black circular eyes.  Its nose is triangular and orange.  It has a big black mouth with a smile of nine dots.  On the top of its head, it has a red, large hat.  My snowman has two skinny long black arms.  I love its clothing!  It is wearing purple medium-sized mittens.  The background has a brown cottage.  I think my snowman is wonderful!

Yanbing, 2nd grade

The Snowman Draw Game!

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

     Anjalia was so descriptive and clear that her partner Sammie (3rd grade) drew this!

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

Julia is an old pro at this game, having taken quite a few workshops by now!  Here is how her partner Ella (5th grade) drew her beautifully-described snowman!

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!

The Snowman Draw Game!

     The Snowman Draw Game is always a favorite of my returning students.  They can't wait to improve upon their results from Monster Draw in the fall, or prove that they are the Adjective Champions once again!

     This game is an excellent lesson in the importance of using adjectives to paint that perfect picture I mentioned in the last blog entry.  If you include adjectives that tell size, shape, color, and number, then your partner should be able to draw your snowman's twin!  Here are the three steps to playing the game:

1. Draw a snowman.  

2. Write a detailed description of your snowman with size, shape, color, and number adjectives in every sentence.

3. Exchange descriptions with a partner, and attempt to draw each other's snowmen.

The class voted on the winners, so here they are!

Samantha's Snowman (2nd grade)

     My snowman's body is shaped like a usual snowman.  Her body is pink.  She has a purple lined tiara.  She has a small triangle on top, then a slightly taller, bigger one, and then a high one in the middle.  Then she has light purple hair which goes to her skirt.  She has pink lips, and the sides are outlined with coal.  She has beautiful coal eyes that have five eyelashes, and one coal nose.   Her middle has a nice light purple plaid sweater that opens in the middle with three buttons instead of coal.  (By the way, it goes on the arms.  Put it at least almost to the hands, but not quite.)  She has five fingers.  Her skirt goes like an umbrella with a pattern of pink and purple (that goes halfway.)  Finally, she has purple high heels. 

 

 Great job, Samantha!

Sienna (2nd grade) did a marvelous job of careful reading and came up with this!

Charlotte's Snowman (3rd grade)  

(Notice how Charlotte broke her description down into paragraphs.  That was part of the lesson, but many children forgot when it came time to write because of the timed element of the game.  Hooray for Charlotte, who did it very well!)

     The whole snowman is outlined in black except for the arms.  My snowman has one BIG round bottom ball.  The middle ball is medium with a natural green vest.  His arms are brown and go a little bit down halfway, and then a little bit up the other half.  His brown hands look like lego hands that are twigs along with the arms.  The head ball is white along with all the others, but it has detail.  It has five little pieces of coal that form a straight line at the bottom.  The eyes are closed and look like capital U's.

     My snowman has two medium black boots.  He ISN'T wearing them.  There are eight big light blue snowflakes that form a rainbow over his head.

     There is a white snowy hill in the back of him.  There is a big yellow sun that shows only a quarter because it's in YOUR right top corner.  The sky is light blue with no clouds in it that takes up all the extra space.

 

The class got a good giggle at this pair.  Tyler (3rd grade) read so very carefully, and he noticed that Charlotte did not mention a nose in her description.  So, he didn't draw one.  That is the ONLY difference in their two pictures, so the class voted for these two as the winners!

Emma's Snowman (5th grade)

     My snowman is medium sized.  It has a large bottom, a medium sized middle part, and a small head.  The head has two black coals for eyes, and seven black coals for a smile.  The hair is fourteen light brown twigs that are sticking up around the head.  It has a blue scarf around the neck, with two ends of the scarf on your left with small strings on the ends of the scarf.  The middle part has two coals in a straight line going up and down.  The middle part has two arms, one on each side, going up ways.  On each light brown arm are three fingers.  On your right, the three fingers are holding a black top hat.  On the bottom is one piece of coal.  The snowman is sitting on a white hill.  On your right of the hill is a light brown bunny with a black collar, black eyes, and a mauve smile.  The background is light blue.

Emma wrote with such great detail that Kiefer (4th grade) came up with this twin!

Ashley's Snowman (3rd grade)
 (Notice how Ashley also split her description up into paragraphs.  This made it so much easier for her partner to read and follow!)

     My snowman has a large silver bottom, a medium silver middle, and a small silver top.

     His face has two circles with dots on them for eyes and a short orange horizontal nose.  He has six coal for a smile, and a black top hat.

     The neck has a medium red scarf, and the middle has three black buttons that are filled in.  He has gold arms and three gold fingers.

     The bottom is plain.

     In the background to his right there is a medium brown cottage with a rectangular door with a gold circle for a knob and a red window to the right of it.  The roof has some snow on it, and the chimney has snow on it too, with smoke coming out of it.  A teal sky is surrounding the snowman and cottage, and in the sky there are thirty-five small star-shaped snowflakes.

     I'm so proud of Ashley and Julia (4th grade).  Ashley played "Monster Draw" in October, and learned a lot on how to improve her descriptive writing skills to come back and win it this time around!  Julia, a first-time student, read carefully and drew this twin.  The class liked Julia's interpretation of "star-shaped snowflakes," and voted for them to win!

Congratulations to our winners!

The Snowman Draw Game!

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!

Adjectives, adjectives, adjectives!  They can tell size, shape, color, number, and personality.  I encouraged the students to write every sentence with these concepts in mind.

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

This first drawing and writing piece was done by Ashley (3rd grade).  She uses so many "color" adjectives that her partner Sophia (3rd grade) draws a great match!

     My snowman has three body parts.  One is small, one is medium, and one is big.

     My snowman has a top hat with yellow with a pink belt on it.  He has pink glasses and a short carrot nose.  He has two coal eyes and five pieces of coal for a mouth.

     He wears a magenta vest with magenta round buttons.  He has a black belt and black boots. 

     The background has a Christmas tree with six blue balls and black tinsel.  There are ten snowballs and a house with five windows with yellow in them.  The house is blue with an orange roof and has a chimney with smoke coming out.

 

This next picture and description was done by Brandon (4th grade).  Brandon did an amazing job with his adjectives-- so great that his partner Henry (5th grade) drew a practical twin!

     My snowman is evil and cunning.  It has a medium head, a white big body, and a really big bottom.  It has red fiery arms the shape of a straight branch.  They have a dull ending with no fingers.  It has a trident with blood red tips and a  white shaft.  It holds nothing in its other hand, and has the same color and size as the other hand.

     It has bright orange wings extending from the middle of its body.  The wings are large with a sharp wavy shape and a crescent bottom.

     I forgot to tell you that the head has two red small devil horns and two round medium eyes with red fire blazing in them.  It has a red and orange pointy short nose.  It also has a bright orange tail extending from its bottom.  It has a red arrow shape at the end.

     It has two fluffy clouds with yellow lightning extending from them.

Emma (5th grade) focused on a detailed background, but described it so vividly that her partner Sophie (5th grade) got every detail right (except the sun.... but it was still really good!)  Size difference didn't matter as much as accuracy with other details.  Emma organized her paper very clearly!

My Background
     In the middle of the picture is a mountain.  The mountain is light brown except for its wavy snow cap.  Behind the mountain are two others; both take up half the page.  The mountains are the same as the first.  Also, all of them are outlined in black.  There are seventeen snowflakes falling that are blue.  The sun is yellow but it's a half sun.  It's on the snowman's left.

My Snowman
     My snowman is right on top of the middle mountain.  The snowman is small.  The bottom ball is large, the middle is medium, and right on the top is a small ball.  All three of the snowballs are light blue.

Snowman's Details
     On top of the small snowman's ball are three tiny hairs that are brown.  My snowman has black sunglasses with an orange carrot nose, regular shaped.  Also between the middle and small ball is a purple bow tie.  In the middle are three black dots that are horizontal.

Go from beginning to end or you will fail!

 

Savannah (5th grade) came up with a very clever design and described it very accurately.  This is Savannah's fifth Writers' Workshop, so she has really mastered how to get her partner to draw her snowman's twin!  Notice how she includes measurements to get Abby (4th grade) to draw her masterpiece.

     My Snowbot is in the shape of a robot.  His head is exactly six centimeters long and four centimeters high.  His head is gray and he has a simple smile just off center.  He has two eyes that are right next to each other, touching.  Each eye is one centimeter long.  His eyes are square.  Inside the eyes, there is one triangle per eye and the triangles have a flat top, not a point.  His eyes are just off center, in line with his mouth.  His eyes are off center to the left (same as the mouth.)  In his eyes, there are two vertical lines.

     The snowbot's neck is 1/2 centimeter long.  He is sporting a v-neck tee-shirt that is an orchid color.  The sleeve of his shirt is three centimeters long.  He is wearing mini shorts that are one centimeter long, and his shorts are salmon colored.  His legs are two centimeters long and are gray.  His shoes are 1/2 centimeter long and 1/2 centimeter tall.  His hands are 3 1/2 centimeters long and 1/2 centimeter tall.  They are gray.  His shoes are orchid colored.