How wet are you?

Yesterday when I marked the children's literacy books, it was clear that I had made a bad job of explaining the target "To use modifiers to contribute to shades of meaning" Lots of the kids were identifying "target met" beside sentences which used good adjectives - impressive work, agreed, but not meeting the outcomes I was looking for.

My other half, for those who don't already know, is an illustrator. Handy to have when you're in need of a quick resource for school! He knocked up a couple of drawings showing shades of fitness and shades of wetness for my lesson today.

Even typing "shades of wetness as we speak makes me wonder how I missed the sexual overtones of what I was asking, but at the time, I was so concerned with collating a bank of "modifiers" for the children to select from, it escaped my notice.

Today, thankfully, the children made much more progress in their understanding of how modifiers change the meaning of an adjective, and subsequent work make me whoop with joy as I was able to agree some of the targets met.

However, I'm still blushing as, at the point of my introduction of the illustrations, the headteacher walked in, just as I had written the question "How wet are you?" on the board and delivered it at full voice to 30 children! My teaching assistant spluttered, the head looked bemused and luckily, the connotations of the question went over my class of 11 year old's heads!

Extremely wet? Totally wet? A little wet? Take your pick!!