Amazing Adjectives

This morning we reviewed adjectives. Adjectives are words that describe a person, place or thing. Ms. Binks read us the book called "Hairy, Scary, Ordinary" and then we brainstormed some adjectives. Some of our ideas included: bumpy, beige, soggy, angry, tired and smooth. Ms. Binks talked about how some adjectives can be boring. These are words like nice, fun, good and cool. To help build our vocabulary with juicy adjectives we learned about synonyms (different words with the same meaning) and how to use a thesaurus. In partners we had to look up boring adjectives in a thesaurus and replace them with juicy words. Some of the juicy words we discovered were charming, delightful, clever, jolly, relaxed, weaken and gloomy.
We will continue work with adjectives later in the week.

We learned about time capsules and watched a video about a man who dug up his own time capsule 37 years after we buried it. We filled out a sheet all about our favourite items and our current height, wing span, foot length and head circumference. We will be creating a time capsule box as a class that we will put special items into and then open on the last week of grade 4.

After lunch we started an art project that will use our knowledge of adjectives. To start the project we needed to create a vibrant background. Using pencil we drew diagonal lines down our page. Then we went over our pencil lines with black fine liner. Our final step for the background was to paint in our lines using different colors. Some example of the steps of our background are below.

We will continue to work on this project later this week.

Reminders:

- Toonies for Terry begins tomorrow. Please bring any donation you can to help raise money for cancer. If enough money is raised to reach our goal teachers will dye their hair. (Ms. Binks is thinking purple)
- Terry Fox run is on Friday. Please make sure that you are wearing appropriate clothing and shoes for the run.
- Please return the pink Family Celebrations sheet asap