Fruit Salad

Grammar focus: Adjectives / Grammar Assignment: Print this paragraph and find all the adjectives!
For out 543 class, a classmate and I are working on “Fruit Salad Fiesta,” a Task-Based-Learning assignment. We designed it for a diverse fourth grade class; something they could do for their younger reading buddies in the second grade. To start, there will be an interesting class discussion, inviting students to describe their favorite fruit, and ask them to name on type of new fruit that they would like to try. For the “how-to” students will come up with a creative list of different fruits they would like in their salad. Then, students will be given a limited budget to work with, and research prices online for fruit and different food stores, developing comparing skills. Students will then develop T-chart graphic organizers. Students will then work in groups of four with a “play” cash register, and work with money (creating change), but also speak and learn the vocabulary that they would use in such a situation. Finally, the next day, the students will place their various fruit salads together. I’m sure the teachers will be surprised by all the beautiful, creative fruit salads (and enjoy eating them, too)!

Vocabulary:
Fiesta- Spanish word for party
Diverse- varying
Interesting- to find worthwhile speaking of
Favorite- most preferred
Come up with- create
Creative- original
Limited- small
Comparing- observing the differences between two things.

Cloze Activites:
1. The fourth grade class is having a Fruit Salad _____________________.
2. Students vary in cultural backgrounds, and are very ____________________.
3. We will have an ________________discussion about fruit salads!
4. What is your most preferred, or ___________, fruit?
5. Students will ___________ ___ _________, or create, their own fruit lists.
6. Students will have to be very original, or ___________ for this project!
7. A ______________ budget is generally a small budget.
8. Students will be ________________ the different pricing on fruits.

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