I am in a celebratory mood today because the Michigan Wolverines won {again!}, I went on a date with B {long overdue!} and I didn’t have to work at school once this weekend! I think I’m finally getting back into the swing of things. It’s about dang time 🙂
We ate at a fantastic local Chinese restaurant and couldn’t help but stop to pose for this pic! Ha!
Back to things school related…
This past week, our reading series focused on descriptive writing. It encouraged the students to write about a character from a story, and while that’s all fine and dandy, I really think 6-year-olds (and older!) really need to experience something before they can write about it. Thus, I created my own series of lessons to support descriptive writing.
So, I started out the first lesson by showing them a decorative gift bag, that they had to describe. We discussed descriptive words (words that tell more; adjectives) and charted our answers on a whole group graphic organizer.
The students then completed a follow-up activity where they decorated and described the bag…
And what was inside the bag, you ask? POPROCKS!
Omiword, we had about 12 kinds of fun eating and experiencing Pop Rocks! Our lessons about descriptive writing continued all week long, culminating in the students writing descriptive sentences {with the help of sentence frames} and creating a darling little art project.
If you’d like to check out this activity and see the lesson plans, more pictures, and response sheets that we used to help guide our writing, check out Let’s Get Pop Rockin’ with Descriptive Writing!at my TpT store found HERE. The best part, it’s completely adaptable for grades K-5, and incorporates adjectives and similes, too 🙂
Happy Teaching!
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AbbyMullins
Abby is a former kindergarten and first grade teacher who channels her passion for education into creating engaging activities and resources for the kindergarten and first grade classroom. When not dreaming up or working on her next project, you’ll find her enjoying her family – most likely in her minivan on the way to a soccer field.
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