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Teachers: This activity can be used to focus on any point of grammar, paragraph writing, or parts of speech.
Objective: The student will write three paragraphs describing themselves as an ocean animal.
Activity: Discuss various ocean animals (whales, sharks, jellyfish, eels, etc.) and their characteristics. Have the students brainstorm and make a list of all the ocean animals discussed in class. If they could be one animal for a day from that list, what would it be? Then on a separate sheet of paper, they are to make a list of the following 10 aspects of that animal's life and answer them about their ocean animal.
The first paragraph should state the name of the animal and describe its surroundings. The second paragraph should include information about predators/prey and what other types of fish or friends it hangs out with in its environment. The final and third paragraph should state the students reasoning for choosing that animal (ideally it should be one of the 10 aspects of that animals life).
The teacher can choose if the paragraphs should be turned in in rough draft format for final touches, if lines need to be skipped for editing, or if the paragraphs should be typed or hand written. A really nice method of finalizing this activity is to allow students to write their paragraphs on a legal size sheet of paper (8 1/2 by 14) and then draw their animal somewhere, including the environment around the margins of the paragraphs, and have a catchy title at the top. Display on classroom bulletin board or school display case.
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