Students investigate visual arts by reading a children's book in class. In this collage lesson, students read the book by Keith Haring titled Big and discuss the themes and settings. Students discuss how adjectives are used to describe...

Students construct descriptive sentences. In this cross curricular music and descriptive writing lesson, students listen to classical music and pantomime actions that correspond to the music. Students write descriptive sentences...

Students explore biology by participating in a science vocabulary activity. In this animal species lesson, students define a list of animal vocabulary terms as well as practice using them in sentences with the appropriate adjectives and...

How do those nocturnal animals see in the dark? This perplexing question does have an answer. First, little ones use their sense of touch to determine the name of a mystery object, then they listen closely to identify various animals by...

First graders write riddles about each other using descriptive words. They try to guess who the person is when the riddle is read aloud.