Gooey, Slimey Adjectives

My attempts at lessons on adjectives last year, were brutally boring...  I didn't enjoy teaching it, because I knew that my students weren't enjoying either.  It is so hard to teach that stuff, while make it intriguing and engaging...  I think I already mentioned that at some point!... 

This year, I'm making a comeback!  After my introduction to adjectives using poop (not the real stuff), I decided to make things even more gross!  The students came in today to 5 buckets (Ignore the fact that they are kitty litter buckets... that's not important!).  In each bucket was a mystery mixture.  I labeled each bucket with a number from 1 to 5.  It's crazy how much labeled kitty litter buckets can excite a group of children!  The first bucket contained hot water mixed with cereal, which turned out being the most disgusting mixture ever!  The second one had old marshmallows.  The third bucket had mushed up jello.  In the fourth, I put a mix of dry bean and lentils and in the fifth bucket, a mixture of cold water and paper.  The last one became extremely mushy and surprisingly disgusting!



The Cherrios may look normal here, but within 15 minutes, it was a bucket full of lumpy mush!

Once everyone was settled down with a blank sheet of paper, we got started on our adjective experiment!  Blindfolded, the students had to come up, put their hands in a bucket and give me an adjective to describe what was in the bucket.  A simple activity turned into quite the morning!  Some were yelling, some were making hilarious faces of digust, but everyone was hooked!  I didn't let anyone see what was in each bucket until the very end, which turned out being the right way to go!  They were all dying to know what was in the buckets, and so I had them engaged until the end. 

Yes, I was voluntold to try as well! 

Here's our list of adjectives to describe each of the buckets. 

The FSL Immersion curriculum requires that students learn the masculine and feminine versions of adjectives.  I used this opportunity to introduce this during our activity as well.  Notice the words in black are the ones we figured out in féminin.  This lead us to make a "cheat sheet" of rules on how to turn a masculine adjective to a feminine one...

We're not done this cheat sheet, but it was a great way to get things started!

All in all, we had a great morning putting our hands in buckets full of disgusting stuff!  Now, if I can think of fun lessons like this for all language structure expectations, I'll be good to go!

Enjoy!

Madame Stéphanie :)