Often, we need to look outside the U.S. to find great resources to use in our classrooms. The NGfL (Wales organization) has a great site that includes resources for all ages. Many of them are good additions to the curriculum you are teaching in the states and are SMART board ready.
One of the ones that I enjoyed is called Supermarket. It is a descriptive writing exercise that would work well with many levels. It starts out with students spinning the fruit machine handle. They then need to drag words to the work area that describe the fruit that they see. Words that are incorrect will not stay in the area. The adjectives that are given are difficult and this is not an activity for the primary set. They then move to the grocery store and roll over blacked out areas and hear a sound that the area is making. For instance, a baby in the cart is blacked out and when they roll over it, the baby starts crying. They describe the situation and why the baby might be crying based on the picture. Another level shows them an enlarged area of the supermarket - i.e. the bakery and they have to describe the way it smells and sounds. A great starter activity to have students use adjectives and describe a known place in their life.
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