Noun-Adjective Agreement

So the first chapter of our book is - gonna be honest - downright boring. It is all about asking someone's phone number and email address. Definitely useful, but not a very good foundation for the rest of Spanish I. The other teacher in our department and I both veto-ed the first chapter of the textbook, and decided to focus more on colors and body parts, putting them together in order to teach noun-adjective agreement. Obviously, this is a tricky thing in Spanish, as the color's gender and number must match the gender and number of whatever it describes. In order to teach this, I have my kids make their own monsters.

Before doing this, kids need to know: introductions, basic parts of the body, how to tell name, age, and origin. I then show a monster that I did as an example. I teach them how to structure the sentences and then I set them free to make their own monsters.

My only rules are these:

1) Introduce your monster using "Este/esta es mi monstruo."

2) Tell what his/her name is.

3) Tell where he/she is from.

4) Tell his/her age.

5) Write five sentences about your monster.

Then, they must draw and color a monster. Some kids just trace monsters from other famous "monsters", like Mike Wazowski or even Spongebob. It doesn't bother me as long as they can describe it.

Here are a couple of the best ones I got!

#adjectives #bodyparts #basicspanish