4: Silly Sentences

I started this lesson off by reading Thomas Locke's The Mare on the Hill and we reviewed what illustrations, nouns, and adjectives are. We then went through the text again and the students identified nouns and adjectives in the text, and talked about the characteristics of the illustrations. I then had students choose two random nouns and one adjective out of a bucket. They were to use these nouns and adjective to create a sentence. From there, they were to illustrate that sentence- no matter how silly it was! Locke creates very soft, poetic paintings for his illustrations- so the students used watercolors to paint their illustrations.