Monday, June 1, 2015

Paint Sample Writing

Have you ever been in Home Depot or Lowe's and visited the paint aisle? Have you ever noticed how creative the different names are for the many different colors available for paint? Well, our second graders experimented with these different paint names in a fun writing activity this past week. Each second grader was given a paint sample with four different colors and names on them. It was the students' job to come up with a story that included three of the four creative names on the paint sample. Below are two examples of student stories with the paint sample names highlighted in the story. 


















It was a beautiful day in Saginaw and the sky was like an Azure Lake. I was at the grassy hill just upon the stream with my sister and we were looking for something special, something very special. My sister and I were both dressed up like an explorer. We were in a color that my sister called Explorer Blue. My sister and I were looking for a Precious Stone. We looked and looked, and at last we found it. It was so cool, but then I lost it. No! It was lost forever! But I found it on the sand laying on the bank of the Blue Stream. I picked up the stone and carried it all the way back to the house and told my mother. My mom was so proud of me. It had been lost for years but I found it. Then I realized the stone was the stone my parents talked about. It was the family stone! And the stone was the source of our magic. Now that the stone was in the house I could do anything. I could make me and my family rich! Or I could make me and my family beautiful superheroes or maybe I could even make more precious stones and could make my family the most powerful people on earth. So I made more stones and we became so powerful. Now we rule the earth in a good way and we are also rich. It is all because of my and my sister looking for something special. Something very, very, very special at the beach. 


Once there was a princess. She was laying in the Spirited Yellow sun waiting for her English Daisies to grow. English Daisies were her favorite flowers. She was also waiting for her favorite vegetable to grow. It was a Squash Blossom. The princess was also waiting for her favorite fruit to grow, it was a Laser Lemon because she liked sour food. Her name was Princess Lana. But then the plants were dead the next morning. So she made a new garden and that time it worked. She picked them out of her garden and ate them but before she ate them she prayed to God saying thanks for my food and that the second time it worked. That is how it ended. 

The students did impressively well with this writing activity! They learned how to write an imaginative story with many details with the help of their paint sample words.