Descriptive Words

When writing a description, sense words tell how things look, feel, smell, sound and taste. These words make the description even more interesting.

What are some of these words?

1. Sense words related to sight indicate how something looks like. For instance: bright, shiny,dark, clear, yellowish, white, sparkling, scary, beautiful.

2. Sense words related to touch describe textures. For instance : rough, soft, smooth, bumpy, hard, fluffy.

3. Sense words related to hearing describe sounds. For instance : loud, quiet, buzzing, noisy, roar, pleasant.

4. Sense words related to taste describe the way our brain perceive the stimuli after having a bite something. For instance : bitter, sweet, sour, plain, spicy, yummy.

5. Sense words related to smell describe general quality of scent. For instance: stinky, flowery, moldy, tart, fresh.

 Below is an example of descriptive text using some sensory words.

My favourite food is strawberry pancake. It is brown  and smells very nice. Its soft texture makes it easy to cut with a spoon. I like it better with honey on it because the taste will get sweeter. It is simple to make because you don’t need a mixer to get fluffy batter. Therefore there will be no buzzing sounds in the kitchen. My dad always makes it for me whenever he is off work and I think I will help him this Saturday! 

 

What Parents Can Do to Improve Their Children Skills During Quarantine

It has been quite tough time for all of us around the world during this pandemic. We must limit ourselves to go out as well as maintaining physical distancing in order not to spread or even get infected to Covid-19 .

Schools, offices, public places, etc. have also been closed for weeks now but thank to TECHNOLOGY we can always manage to complete our work from HOME.

For parents who want to boost your children’s performance and skills while working at home, these are some key activities you can do.

     1.  Read aloud your children various books

When it comes to story time children are usually excited and curious for it.

Parents if you want your children to develop a love for reading, you can help them by reading them books aloud every day. Make sure to improvise the story to be more interesting so your children wonder how the story ends. In fact reading books aloud to children stimulates their imagination and expands their understanding about the world. Make sure you have collections of story books or e books.

I recently found a website https://www.kidsworldfun.com/ebooks.php sharing plenty of appealing free e books that your children might be interested in them. Download the pdf version from the page and start your children reading journey as soon as possible!

     2.    Make crafts

Children enjoy crafts so much especially if there are some cutting and pasting activities. Try to recycle unneeded supplies to let your children learn that we can use wasted materials for creating more useful stuff. When I was a child I enjoyed making paper chain decoration. I hung them on the window of my room and it looked beautiful when blown by the wind. Or if you still have some leftover paper plates from the previous birthday party you can use them to create bunny heads for wall decoration. Beside paper plates you will also need some other colourful paper used for the eyes and the ears. Well you can probably get them from your abandoned paper bags you keep for ages in your drawers!

      3.   Improve your children pencil gripping

As a teacher I have found a few students struggling with pencil gripping. All they need to do is simple; PRACTICE. Colouring, tracing and number connecting are nice activities that you can provide to your children in order to improve their pencil gripping. But there is a common problem that teachers and parents will face; SOME KIDS GET BORED EASILY while doing these activities. Then how do we manage? Well there are quite a lot of apps that will help us handle these problems. For me personally I usually use a magical app called QUIVER. It’s a really nice app you can download on Play Store or App store. It provides both paid and free colouring pages. Have print the pages you want and ask your children to colour, when they are done you can scan the coloured pages through the app and it will show you and your children the magic! Each character from the pages will be alive as well as moving around here and there on your phone screen. I believe your children will be amazed by this extraordinary magical experience and will ask for more pages to colour!

     4.   Develop your children letter recognition skills

Before helping children to recognise each letter from alphabet we have to ensure the children are aware with letter sounds and at least able to segment as well as blending the letter sounds. Once they reach this stage it will take no time for you parents to help them develop their letter recognition skills.

I know many parents have been so creative in helping their children boost these skills. Well I can share some that probably you have never done before. First you and your children can work together to decorate your children’s room or the whole house with letters of the alphabet. You can stick a sheet of big paper with letter on it on each thing found in your children’s room. For instance you can stick letter “d” on the “door” and “w” on the window. Children will see them many times and it will help them memorise the letters easily. Next you can set “letter hunt” time every afternoon. You can print paper with random letters on it. So their mission is to find out the letters needed as fast as they can.

 

:) :) stay safe and healthy everyone :) :)