Monday, November 12, 2012

More Similes This Week


I love this book!  Very creative use of similes.

I had the children pick someone and write descriptive phrases using similes.







Click here for the form from Teacher's Cauldron.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Synonyms, Antonyms and Homophones


We have covered synonyms, antonyms and homophones.  Here are  a few books that I used this week to review.  The children love this series!


I had the kids make a flip book using the three categories.  On the front of the flip book, they wrote the words, synonymantonym and homophone and their definitions.  On the inside, they wrote a sentence using a pair of words, with an illustration.

Here are a few examples: