Thursday, November 1, 2012

Describing Pumpkins

Today we finished up our pumpkin unit by reading The Bumpy Pumpkin. This is a great book to teach adjectives! After reading we did some brainstorming of words that could describe a pumpkin and made a list.

As an extension to this lesson, each student created their own "bumpy pumpkin" using crazy scissors. After they put their pumpkin together they were asked to write 3 clues describing their pumpkin. We talked about what makes a good clue and how you have to use describing words to differentiate your pumpkin from someone else's. They totally got the concept:




Tomorrow is our field trip to Dewberry Farm and we all cannot wait! Should be an extremely fun day!

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