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.

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, synonym, antonym 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:

Scientific Method and Community Reader

We had Community Reader's Day this week and enjoyed a great non-fiction book by a visitor from New Horizons Retirement Home.  The children enjoyed learning about elephants and cats.  

 We wrapped up our first science unit on the "Scientific Method" by creating comic strips.  The kids love graphic novels and I knew they would enjoy making their own.  The comic page will be put into their Portfolio Book that will go home at the end of the school year.

Using Our Projectors and Poetry

We got new projectors in our classrooms this year to help bring technology into our classrooms.  I downloaded the Kindle app for my PC.  I can project books onto the whiteboard.  Here are the children reciting poetry from The Poetry Friday Anthology(Common Core K-5).

We gather around the board on Fridays to read and discuss the poetry.  We talk about the types, format, themes, etc.  This week we had some children act the poem about watching football while other practiced fluency and reading with expression.  The kids came in on Friday asking when we were doing poetry...so I know it was a hit.  I will print out the poems for the children to share during Daily Five.

We're Getting Carried Away with Idioms

We have been learning about idioms for the past few weeks.  The children are learning about the literal and figurative meanings.  They posed as if they were holding balloons.

 

Here are a few of their final projects: