Writing Similes

This month's literacy unit is all about plants. This week's focus was on how seeds travel. I introduced one book by saying "There is a way that seeds travel like us!" I meant by cars (car tires to be exact).... but one little girl exclaimed with wide eyes "They can walk?!?" Hehe! Now, wouldn't that be cool?

The writing assignment was to finish the following simile: "Seeds travel by_____ like_____." Before having my class dive right into creating similes, I decided to "warm up" their brains to recognizing similes and making them meaningful.

We read Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood. Half way through the book, I would say the beginning of the next simile "I'm as large as a......" and see if they could come up an ending "whale, elephant, ocean..." before showing them the answer and illustration.

Next, we brainstormed as a class....

My favorite was "I am as bright as a star."  I shared with the class that the Bible says we are like stars - shining for Jesus! "You shine like stars in the world." ~ Philippians 2:15b

I ran out of room, but it was supposed to be "I am as tired as a hibernating bear."

Here were some of the similes they came up with. I compiled them into a class book.

 

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Who Has These Feet? Class Book FREEBIE

We are currently finishing the Animals unit in our reading curriculum. One of my favorite literacy activities I added this year was reading Who Has These Feet? by Laura Hulbert.

On each page it shows a close up picture of a certain animal's feet. We choral read the question: "Who has these feet?" Before turning the page, we took turns guessing which animal the feet belonged to.  I love that this book includes cool facts about how various foot features help each animal.

We made our own Who Has These Feet? class book.

I took pictures of each student's "feet" for the illustrations.

They added their names along with a self portrait on the second page. So cute!

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This book has been frequently checked out of our classroom library. Click on the link above to download the FREE template to make your own class book!