Adjectives and iPads

We have been learning about adjectives this past week at school.  We read a few great adjective books. My class really got into The Bug Book.  It had great illustrations of bugs demonstrating different adjectives.  This lesson definately increased our vocabulary as we talked about different shades of meaning for various words in the book.  We also sang several adjective songs and made some adjective charts.

We then used the iPads to demonstrate some of our learning about adjectives.  Our first activity stemmed from these great read alouds.  We used the Explain Everything app in our first activity.  This app is a screencasting, whiteboard app on which you can draw and record.  It is only $2.99 and was very easy for my primary students to use.

My students each chose an animal to draw in the app.  Then they wrote some adjectives to describe their animal in the pictures.  Last they recorded themselves talking about their adjectives.

Another activity we did involved the skitch app.  The students took a photo of themselves in the skitch app.  Then they wrote adjectives that described themselves around them on the photos.