What is shiny, hot, yellow, and orange?

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!