Monster Mash

The Monster Exchange that Alec shared with us I thought was great. Classrooms from around the world are paired together and students are separated into groups. Then in their groups they create a picture of an original monster and provide a descriptive paragraph about it. Then the classrooms exchange their descriptions and they have to try and draw a picture of the monster based on the descriptions. After they created the picture from the description they compared what the monster was actually suppose to look like.

This provides students with a great opportunity to practice descriptive writing and receive feedback on it in a fun and interesting way. They will be using their reading skills to try and decipher what this monster is suppose to look like. Students want to draw the monster as close as possible to the original. This also allows students to use their imaginations and creativity because the monster could look like whatever they want! Plus it's integrating technology in the classroom! I think this would be a fun activity for any elementary grade.