Tuesday, December 10, 2013

A Positively Wonderful Thanksgiving Party

Last month, we finished up our cooking vocabulary and imperative grammar lessons with the most appropriate holiday of all--Thanksgiving!!! Levels 1-4 came together, bringing scrumptious dishes from around the world to celebrate. Our classroom was filled to the brim with students and family members who came to share in this American tradition. There were Haitian, Mexican, Colombian, El Salvadorean, and Chinese foods, as well as the traditional staples of turkey and dressing, made by our own  wonderful Diana! Everyone ate happily, as we discussed upcoming plans for the holiday season.  We finished the festivities with a group picture--everyone happy, smiling, and full!!

Now we have begun to study the use of adjectives and adverbs in our speech.  Notice the words in bold. Are they adjectives, or adverbs?? 

Adjectives: describe nouns by telling which one, what kind or how many. Often an adjective comes directly before the noun it describes. However, an adjective can also come after the noun it describes.

Adverbs:  describe verbs by telling how, when or where. Often an adverb comes directly after the verb it describes. However, it can also come somewhere else in a sentence.

In the comment box below, can you describe your holiday plans using adjectives and adverbs?

The Thanksgiving spread!!!!

So many wonderful students and family members to share it with!!

An incredible amount of delicious dishes

I particularly liked this Haitian BBQ chicken. Yum!

Everyone lined up to get their plates filled up!

Students taking time to converse as they fill up their plates...

More conversation and sharing....

Buffet style!!!

4 comments:

  1. I wonder what was the best dish that day. I see it was a huge party! I missed it though. I won't missed the next one on Dec. 18th: Christmas Party!

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    1. We missed you too Leslie! It was definitely hard to decide on the best dish, there were so many good ones. Glad you won't miss the next party on December 18th!

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  2. The Thanksgiving Party was amazing for me. There were a lot of differents dishes of somecountries and it was my first Thansgiving day and i enjoyed pretty much with everybody.

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    1. So glad you shared your first Thanksgiving with us Johana! We will miss you when you move--maybe you can come back and visit us when we have a party to celebrate different holidays. :)

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