Writing, Writing, Writing

For the past 2 weeks, we've really dug deep into writing skills with learning about complete sentences, strong verbs, metaphors, adjectives, transitional words and phrases, and similes. One activity I had the students do was a simile poster. First, I gave them a simile handout to help them generate similes. Then, they picked one that they liked the best to illustrate on a piece of cardstock paper. They turned out really cute, so I hung them in the hallway on our display board. I was so glad that I did because they made an attractive display for the governor's liasion to view as he toured our building!