Describing Words (Adjectives)

Art class is in session for Pip and his friends! Today, Ms. Koko is teaching them how to paint! She tells the class to get inspired and use adjectives to create their masterpieces! "Great, Ms. Koko! But, what's an adjective!?" Let's help the budding artists by learning about "Describing Words, Adjectives." As we learn how to read and write, it is important to learn about different types of words. Words that describe a person, place, or thing are called adjectives. One job a word can do is to tell us more about other words in that sentence. Words that describe a person, place, or thing are called adjectives. You may not know it, but you've already heard and used many adjectives! Anytime you talked about something's size, shape, color, number, smell, or feelings you were using an adjective! There are so many adjectives. Let’s just look at a few examples! Words like small and big are adjectives that describe someone, something, or some place's size. Round or square may describe a shape, or the shape of something. Red, orange, yellow, green, and blue could describe the color. One, two, three, four and so on describe the number. Sweet or stinky could describe the smell. And, nervous, happy, sad, or mad might describe its feelings! We can put an adjective right before the word it describes by saying something like: the red heart'. Or we can put it right after the word is, or the word are, like this: the heart is red' or the hearts are red.' Now that we know more about these describing adjectives, let's help the art class match some adjectives with the picture they describe! This adjective says square, which picture does it describe? It describes this square pillow! Let's draw a line from the word square to the square pillow! The next adjective says pink, which picture does it describe? It describes this pink flamingo! Let's draw a line from the word pink to the pink flamingo! The last adjective says pretty, which picture does it describe? It describes these pretty flowers! Let's draw a line from the word pretty to the pretty flowers! While the class paints their own square, pink, and pretty pictures, let's remember! Today we learned about describing words called adjectives. Adjectives are words that describe a person, place, or thing, like its size, shape, color, number, smell, or feelings. We put adjectives right before the word they describe, or right after the word is or the word are. "Now let's see how these came out. Good, nice." " Ok, Pip, what do you have to show me?" "Pip! This may be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!