Today Brennemann 2nd graders put on their imaginative thinking caps to meet the challenge of creating their own comparisons and writing similes (a comparison that uses the words “like” or “as.”) We talked about finding similarities between very different things, such as: a stylus and a tree limb – which may share the same size and shape; or glue and syrup – which are both sticky but used in very different ways. When looking at the example poems, students really liked lines such as “a butterfly is like a colorful flying rainbow,” “a book is like a world,” and “the sun is like a fish, swimming in the sky.” When students were asked how “thunder is like bowling,” some students in Ms. Richter’s class came up with “they both crash down,” and “they both strike out,” instead of saying that both thunder and bowling are LOUD. I was inspired and impressed by their inventiveness!
Ms. Richter
2nd Grade
Group Collaboration
the sun is like
a shiny flower
and it is hot like lava,
fiery!
the sun is hot like soup
on a winter Wednesday.
the sun is yellow like queso
or orange like the juicy fruit
and a fast Ferrari.
the sun is like a yellow
pencil drawing a sunflower.
Ms. Okones
2nd Grade
Darikson
Mi sonrisa es como mama te da es como un humecte por tu cumpleaños felis
Evelynn
A brick is hard and brown like tree bark
The sun is hot like a oven
Cotton candy is like clouds
Amina
A robot is like a construction worker
A classroom is like a noisy restaurant
Brooklyn
A line is like a black street
A bowl is like a sphere but half cut off
Jamal
The sun is like a gold bar
A pin is as shiny as silver
A dog barking is like a car revving
