Simile Snowball Fight!

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...

The Z Was Zapped

Over the past few weeks, we have been doing a Chris van Allsburg author study. In class, we read one of his books, The Z was Zapped. The story is set as a play where each letter is involved in some sort of action. That action begins with the same letter. One example...

A Week as Crazy as Black Friday – Similes

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...

A Week as Crazy as Black Friday – Similes

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...

Animal Unit – Wordle

We wrapped up our animal unit in science today.  As a final discussion piece, both classes came up with five words that we have talked about in science this year that remind us of animals.  Below is our Wordle that we created.  Again, the larger a word, the more times...