Today in honor of the Great Grymes Pumpkin Carving Contest being held this week, we are going to carve pumpkins using an online web application during computer class. The pumpkins should be created to match one of the contest categories: Scariest, Most Life-like, Funniest or Sweetest. Here are two different web apps to choose from. Click on the image you want to use.
Today the students will refer to their monster on their computer screen to help them fill in a writing prompt that allows them to write down descriptions with adjectives for the various parts of their monsters. This will be the basis for the written descriptions in paragraph form that they will write when they return to their classroom.
Students will continue to work on creating monsters using Pixie that they will use as the subject of a descriptive writing project. They will be encouraged to add details to their monsters that they will be able to describe with adjectives. At the end of the class the students will select the monster from the ones they created to use for their written descriptions.
Today the second grade will begin a project called the Monster Adjective Project. They will use Pixie and their imaginations to create pictures of an original monster. Each monster picture will eventually become the subject of an adjective-filled descriptive paragraph.
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