This week, first grade students began learning about adjectives. As an introduction, students participated in the shared read aloud, If You Were an Adjective, and listened to the School House Rock song, Unpack Your Adjectives.  We discovered adjectives are words that describe nouns.  They tell us how something looks, how something sounds, how something feels, and how something behaves.  Adjectives serve to make our writing more interesting and help the reader visualize by creating a more clear picture in his or her mind.  We have discovered adjectives can be both numbers and colors and can occur in different parts of sentences.

Students have and will continue to participate in activities and centers focused on identifying and generating adjectives.  On Wednesday, 1st graders were given the task of coming up with adjectives to describe the secret item their group was given.  We had a great time coming up with adjectives describing the color, size, shape, weight, and texture of our item!  After compiling our lists, each group read their adjectives to the class and their classmates tried to guess what each secret item was.  Because of the wonderful adjectives given, we were able to guess each of the mystery items!