In our Beyond Words unit we are reading wonderful literature. Students read the poem Fog, by Carl Sandburg, It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw and Cloud Dance by Thomas Locker. We discussed the figurative language in each book and how the authors compared things.
I took the class outside, with clipboards, blue paper, and white crayons to observe and draw clouds. Unfortunately, I picked a virtually cloudless day. So, instead we used white paints blobs in the center of blue paper and folded the paper and pressed it to make clouds. When the students opened their papers back up they had unique cloud shapes. They then wrote their own similes.
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