Tag archives for Similes

Emotions in Motion

Posted by  on Monday, December 13th 2010     

In class we have been working on ways to make our writing more descriptive. We often discuss ways to “paint a picture” for our reader. Chris van Allsburg was a master at this. Each student agreed that we could imagine the way that his books would look even if he didn’t put pictures in them. [...]

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Simile Snowball Fight!

Posted by  on Thursday, December 9th 2010     

This week we have been discussing descriptive writing.  We have been learning about how adding adjectives and similes can help to build a story that the reader can step right into.  Yesterday we came up with some similes and adjectives that describe winter.  We then crumpled up the paper to create snowballs and had a [...]

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A Week as Crazy as Black Friday – Similes

Posted by  on Friday, December 3rd 2010     

This week we did many things.  We did fun activities like multiplication bingo, made our second Z was Zapped letter, and we made similes.  A simile is when you compare two words using like or as.  A few examples are: Everybody did a great job.  In social studies, we are working on making our own [...]

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