My fourth graders are practicing creating full sentences using a simple formula... a noun, an adjective, a verb, then another noun. To help keep the creative juices flowing, I use an idea basket full of pictures of vocabulary words they know. I call up a student to pick a noun out of the basket, we put it on the board, and the fun begins!! I have found kids struggle to pull vocabulary items 'out of the air'- with the idea basket your class runs more efficiently and all kids participate. What's really great too is that you often get rather silly sentences, which increases the motivation factor. Sample a few of our recent sentences:
La lima sincera come una banana.
Un taco atlético agarra al gato.
Un gato amable ve una casa.
Qué divertido!
