Happy Holidays!

Over the past two weeks we have continued to explore figurative language. The kids are becoming pros at recognizing examples of them in everyday speech and in books. I had hoped to use song lyrics of popular songs to further hone in on their skills, however with the busy-ness of the last week of school before holidays, those plans will be on hold until after the holiday break. I also plan to give the students more opportunity to use figurative language in their own creative writing early in the new year. One of our first activities back will be to do some sensory writing using figurative language about popcorn. If anyone has any concerns with their child eating air popped popcorn, please contact me so that I can accommodate accordingly. Thank you and have a wonderful holiday with family and friends. Happy New Year 2016!

Figurative Language

We opened up our unit on figurative language this week. I generally introduced the concepts of alliteration, hyperboles, similes, metaphors, idioms and onomatopoeia and personification. If you need a refresher, you may be interested in watching this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSLgxj2dxk
Each day we will learn about each type of figure of speech in more detail, and I will be giving the students opportunities to find examples in books and write their own creative ones. This week we had time to work on similes and metaphors. We will continue with the others next week.