They are the Article Adjectives

The article adjectives are coming. Are you prepared?
(click the link above to hear the recording.)


Language Arts Red made this "remix" of a Shurley Grammar jingle as a Fun Friday project. They did an excellent job listening to their own recording and deciding what sounds would help tell the story they wanted to tell. We used this free audio mixing program and downloaded the sound effects from the Freesound Project.

Dankenstein, by Christian (after Shel Silverstein)

Dankenstein, by Christian

Warning! Don’t Read out loud! Or else!





I tell you the story of Dankenstein and this is true. He loves to eat little boys and girls just like you. Watch out for him. His eyes are hot red and do you know what his eyes said? Horror and V-Bomb! And he haunts you at nighttime! If you think about him he will become real! Don’t think about him or else!

Dun-Dun-Dun!

The End

Four Kinds of Sentences

* The students in Language Arts Red were learning about the different kinds of sentence: declarative, imperative, interrogative and exclamatory. We imagined that they had had a really bad scoop of ice cream at the fictitious Dan and Ivan’s Icy Experience. They each wrote a persuasive letter to tell Dan and Ivan about their bad experiecnce. I challeneged them to use one of each kind of sentence – and boy, were they up to the challenge!

Dear Dan and Ivan,

Your ice cream is the worst. What do you put in it? I am not going back.
Maybe I will come back. When I come back, you ice cream better taste good. Make me good chocolate vanilla ice cream.

Signed,

Kaitlin
P.S. I want my money back. You are chumps!

Jame Cube, by Kamaal (after Shel Silverstein)

I’ll tell you the story
Of Jame Cube and you know
What I tell you is true.

He loved to play his Game Cube
All day and all night until
His eyes and head turned flat.

His chin turned into the power button
and ears turned into the reset and open buttons.

His hands and fingers turned into the controllers
And the buttons that were on them
And a plug stuck out of him.
Now instead of him playing
We all sit around and play him.

Cookie Kaitlin, by Kaitlin (after Shel Silverstein)

I’ll tell you the story of Kaitlin. She liked cookies. She ate them all the time. And her face turned to a flat cookie. Her eyes and nose and mouth turnmed to chocolate chips now instead of her eating cookies, we are all eating her.

Litty Loop, by Thaddeus (after Shel Siverstein)

I’ll tell you the story of Litty Loop and you know what I tell you is true. She loves to drink Lattes almost as much as you. She drank until she got glued to the table her mouth turned into the sipping part and her body turned into a cup and the liquid inside of her turned into a latte and her arms turned into a paper sleeve and instead of her drinking lattes we all drink her.

That's why Dan and Ivan make 31 flavors...

Dear Dan and Ivan,

Your ice cream tastes despicable. Next time can we have a sample before you give us the ice cream to see if we like it? When you make the ice cream take a sample of it first. And next time if it tastes like raw egg I’m calling your boss.

From your mad customer,
Thaddeus